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In TX Congressional District 21, John Courage is running to unseat entrenched 20 incumbent, DeLay clone, Lamar Smith (R). Our district, TX-21, was one of the districts impacted by the re-re-re-districting court order that called for new maps in August of this year. Our race on November 7th is therefore an open primary. There are 7 candidates running in this race, so it's very likely that Lamar Smith is going to end up in a runoff.
Recent polls say he will. A runoff will be scheduled for sometime mid-December.
The Center for Media and Democracy explains the back story to Smith's Ethics Committee service. And this is exactly why we think that Smith has been part of the corruption in Congress.
On February 3, 2005, at the start of the 109th Congress, Hastert replaced Hefley with Rep. Doc Hastings, a Washington Republican seen as more loyal to the Republican leadership. Hastert also ousted two other Republican panel members, Reps. Kenny Hulshof and Steve LaTourette, who had voted with Hefley to admonish DeLay and voted against an internal Republican rule change meant to protect DeLay as majority leader in the case of his indictment in a Texas investigation into his behavior. In the place of the removed lawmakers, Hastert appointed Reps. Melissa Hart (R-Pa.), Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Tom Cole (R-Okla.). According to Common Cause, all three voted for the caucus rule change. Even more notably, Smith and Cole donated thousands of dollars ($10,000 and $5,000 respectively) to DeLay’s legal defense fund.
In times like these,
Congress needs Courage!Sonia
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