Redistricting colors congressional race

[Judi Lynn]

Sept. 6, 2004, 12:03AM

Redistricting colors congressional race
32nd District sees incumbent in fierce battle with senior Democrat
By THOMAS KOROSEC
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Dallas Bureau

DALLAS - For a Democrat like Martin Frost, having a campaign headquarters less than a mile from the Galleria shopping mall is hardly auspicious.
Affluent North Dallas, Highland Park and University Park, all part of the 32nd Congressional District, lean so Republican that a well-funded, well-known Democrat has not bothered to run there since Richard Nixon was in the White House.
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U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, a self-styled pro-business, anti-regulation, tax-cutting Republican, is the district's incumbent. His safe seat became less so as a by-product of last year's congressional redistricting, engineered by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to pick up as many as seven seats for the GOP.

In order to make an adjacent district more favorable for Republicans, Sessions' district picked up Dallas' heavily Hispanic Oak Cliff section, which traditionally votes Democratic. So when Frost, one of Texas' two most senior Democrats in Congress and a tenacious campaigner, saw his former district dismantled by the new lines, he jumped in against Sessions in his bid for a 14th term.

Big Texas race
The result, in Sessions' words, "is the biggest congressional race in the country." It clearly is shaping up to be the costliest, according to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Both camps have raised more than $3 million so far and are on track to raise and spend $4 million by November.
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Hip Hip Hooray, Martin Frost!

Sessions and some leering, Cheneying jerk

[Nambe]

1. It would be wonderful to see Delay's grip slip.

[sally343434]

2. Interesting use of the use "colors" in the headline

Must be a Freudian slip.