Bush's Crawford Congressman is a Democrat

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/Reuters: Political Lines Are Blurred in Bush Country
By REUTERS
Published: October 11, 2006


Rep. Chet Edwards (D., TX)

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The Congressman who represents U.S. President George W. Bush's home district is a good old Texan who goes to church, likes to hunt and opposes same-sex marriage.

While these traits are normally associated with Bush's Republican Party, Chet Edwards is in fact a Democrat who has been in Congress for 16 years -- a fact that highlights how easily the standard party lines are blurred in the South.

As the November 7 elections that will decide who controls Congress heat up, the House race here is not a simple one between a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican....

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Raised a Methodist, Edwards is married to a Baptist preacher's daughter and loves nothing better than a good bird shoot. He's also no softy on immigration....

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But on other issues he is more in line with his party and its liberal wing.

"I think the decision to have an abortion is between a woman and her doctor. It is not something we should legislate on,'' he says....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-crawford.html

[KingFlorez]

1. They tried to railroad him last time and failed

This time the GOP candidate is a joke, he's got no money and has run a poor campaign. Chet Edwards always survives.

[cosmik debris]

2. A Major DINO

He supports war, torture, tax cuts for the rich, secret spying, the bankruptcy bill that screwed so many poor people, repeal of the estate tax, and the list is too long to go on. Chet Edwards is as much a Republican as Lieberman or Bush is. I know, I have lived in his district longer than he has.

The only reason he wins reelection is that the Republicans always nominate some extremist who can't make a complete sentence.