Another one bites the dust: Rep. Bonilla (R-TX) goes down!!!

Bonilla loses House seat after 7 terms

Former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez defeated seven-term Republican Henry Bonilla in a runoff election Tuesday, adding another Democrat to Congress.

With more than half the precincts reporting in the state's largest district, Rodriguez had 57 percent to Bonilla's 43 percent.

They were the top vote-getters in a special election held Nov. 7, but neither got 50 percent, prompting the runoff.

Bonilla was seeking an eighth term in Washington, while Rodriguez was hoping to return after a two-year absence. He served from 1997-2005 in another district but was ousted in the March 2004 Democratic primary by Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat. Rodriguez lost again to Cuellar in this year's primary.

The Supreme Court ruled in June that a 2003 reconfiguration of Bonilla's district was unconstitutional because it diluted minority votes, and a three-judge panel redrew the district in August to restore Hispanics that had been shunted into another district.

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Ahora mismo soy feliz. Los malos hombres están facil.

No habla Espanol.

Right now I am happy. The bad men are easy.

:hi: Hope the syrup made it to you ok :D

KB5 y palante!

His opponent Ciro Rodriguez,

-Voted NO on authorizing military force in Iraq
-Is pro-choice
-favors gay civil unions
-opposes prayer in public schools
-opposes privatizing social security.
-opposes death penalty
-says Immigration helps our economy encourages it.

Aren't all those positions supported by the mainstream of America?

Was a member of the Progressive Caucus as I'm sure you already knew.

I'm so happy to hear this news. Especially after the previous stolen election.

I just wish the MSM would quit calling all these popular, mainstream positions "far left".

because we lost a position on the appropriations committee. I simply pointed out that it was going to be in dem control first of all...and no member of the committee for the 110th Congress will be texan anyway. pubes are so easy to argue.

In his previous campaign, Ciro was supported somewhat reluctantly by the grass-roots/net-roots...I even sent him a check. But, I seem to remember that the reluctance was due to Ciro seeming to vote with the repukes too much of the time, that he was not a Progressive, but more of a Lieberman. Can someone remind me about his voting record and his positions on the war, deficit, big-business?

Someone in TX?

Thanks!

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Henry Cuellar is a little too DINO.

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http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ciro_Rodriguez.htm

I'm not from Texas; I'm from the Internet. But I think you'll be very pleased. ;)

Obviously, I'm not from TX either!

repudiating their gerrymandering.

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There was a great picture in the San Antonio paper of Clinton strolling across the campus of Palo Alto College with Henry Cisneros.