Quick Bonilla Rant

Dem upsets veteran Republican in Texas runoff - CNN.com
The Supreme Court ruled in June that a 2003 reconfiguration of
Bonilla’s district was unconstitutional because it diluted minority
votes, and a three-judge panel redrew the district in August to restore
Hispanics that had been shunted into another district.
Bonilla blamed his loss on the Supreme Court ruling, telling supporters, “We […]

Political Ads stink

The attack ads are out. I figured now would be a good time to put up the positions that each candidate has taken on important issues. Sadly, I can only give you Ciro Rodriguez’s positions because it seems Henry Bonilla has decided not to answer.
Ciro Rodriguez
This is the statement you will find about Henry Bonilla
REPRESENTATIVE […]

Bonilla has a lot to thank Tom DeLay for

MySA.com: Bonilla has benefited greatly from his loyalty to Tom DeLay
Bonilla also became a trusted and loyal soldier for DeLay, and in 1999 was made head of American Dream PAC, whose mission, he said, was “to give significant, direct financial assistance to first-rate minority GOP candidates.”
Yes, that is the American Dream PAC that Techdigger wrote […]

DeLay legacy helped GOP empire fall

DeLay legacy may have helped GOP empire fall | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
How the hammer fell on his own party
The iron hand of Tom DeLay built a GOP empire — and may have contributed its undoing
WASHINGTON - The legacy of the once powerful Republican Tom DeLay of Sugar Land cast a long shadow over last […]

The Dream is Over

CPR: April 2004: Off The Record:
GOP Seeks Minorities; Fails
Every few years, in between high-profile racial embarrassments à la Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond, the GOP makes a big show of reaching out to minorities and working to make their party more of a big-tent multicultural bastion of diversity and tolerance—you know, the Party of Lincoln! […]