CounterPunch: In Oscar Texas: One Down, One to Go?

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By GREG MOSES

Brenda Denson Prince put on her evening best and walked the red carpet with Jamie Foxx Sunday evening, but she did it at an Oscar watching party in Foxx's hometown of Terrell, Texas. And as the world turned its attention to Foxx's acceptance speech, Denson-Prince, for a time at least, was able to forget the battle she wages to give an acceptance speech of her own.

"You walked up on that red carpet and thought you were in Hollywood," recalls Denson-Prince by telephone. "It was very nice." And when Foxx won the Oscar for best actor, "there was a standing ovation. Everyone was happy and all. And everyone was as teary-eyed as he was."

For the first time since election night 2004, Denson-Prince says she felt that Terrell, "was combined as a community should be. At one. United. I hadn't felt that way in a while."

For Prince the past four months have been marked by feelings of dreams not quite touched, as she continues to wage a fight to become the first woman County Commissioner to represent Terrell's corner of Kaufman County.

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