Derail these fundraisers [WaPo article on Joe Barton]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010801162.html

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All Aboard for Joe Barton's 2006 Texas Train Ride," the invitation reads. It is oversized and glossy, printed on the kind of heavy stock that sends the message: This is a Major Event.

If you don't know who Joe Barton is, if you can't imagine why you'd want to pay several thousand dollars for the privilege of playing Texas Hold 'Em with him en route from Fort Worth to San Antonio, as the invitation promises, then -- it's safe to deduce -- you don't make your living as a Washington lobbyist. For Barton is not only the Republican congressman from the Sixth District of Texas. He is -- more to the point for those who are anteing up for his weekend-long fundraiser this month, and as the invitation helpfully points out on its cover page -- "Chairman Joe Barton."

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1. If you can't afford to ride the train....................

Recommend and then click on WWW.FOLLOWMETODC.COM, send a few $$$ and follow David Harris to DC!! It's going to be a long uphill walk, but every dollar we can give will even that road a bit.

Mary