Nbadan
02-22-2006, 04:14 AM
Anyone remember the controversy two years ago?
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The Republican gerrymandered 28th District stretches 100's of miles
Congressman Ciro Rodriguez filed a lawsuit disputing the recount results of his District 28 battle against Laredo attorney Henry Cuellar.
Rodriguez and his attorneys filed the suit in Laredo at the Webb County Courthouse late Wednesday afternoon.
The incumbent was declared the winner after the March 9 Primary Election, but the challenger asked for a recount of the votes.
During that recount, about 300 originally uncounted ballots were discovered between Webb and Zapata counties, which put Cuellar in the lead.
Nine other counties that participated in the recount of hand ballots showed very little change from election night numbers.
Rodriguez addressed that issue and also pointed out if the Webb and Zapata county 'mystery' votes — as he calls them — had been tallied on election night, Cuellar would have been the victor.
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One of the major backers of Henry Cuellar is a bank down in Laredo. Has given him 6 figure unsecured loans for his campaign. He has also gotten a lot of money from the banking pac. Well this same bank was a ballot box storage location on election day in 04. Was in the safe actually. Well they just happened to find a ballot box with hundreds of uncounted votes at this location election eve. They open the box and 70% of the ballots go for Cuellar. That seems a bit odd dont it?
Well later TV crews in Laredo investigated voter irregularities and went to Henry Cuellar's fathers house. They knock on the door and read off a list of names of 10+ people who apparently voted and were registered at that address. Old Mr. Cuellar is sitting there dumbfounded and tells the press that none of them live there.
They also detailed voting from locations that were empty lots or condemned houses. The bank the ballots were found in was the International Bank of Commerce, Tony Sanchez's bank.
As damaging as all this may seem, none of it is conclusive proof that Henry Cuellar, or his campaign, had any involvement in voting irregularities, it could be that Ciro Rodriquez was just a lazy campaigner who took the hispanic vote for granted. Let's hope he doesn't make the same mistake this year.
http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/tx28_109.gif
The Republican gerrymandered 28th District stretches 100's of miles
Congressman Ciro Rodriguez filed a lawsuit disputing the recount results of his District 28 battle against Laredo attorney Henry Cuellar.
Rodriguez and his attorneys filed the suit in Laredo at the Webb County Courthouse late Wednesday afternoon.
The incumbent was declared the winner after the March 9 Primary Election, but the challenger asked for a recount of the votes.
During that recount, about 300 originally uncounted ballots were discovered between Webb and Zapata counties, which put Cuellar in the lead.
Nine other counties that participated in the recount of hand ballots showed very little change from election night numbers.
Rodriguez addressed that issue and also pointed out if the Webb and Zapata county 'mystery' votes — as he calls them — had been tallied on election night, Cuellar would have been the victor.
NEWS8AUSTIN (http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/?SecID=278&ArID=104012)
One of the major backers of Henry Cuellar is a bank down in Laredo. Has given him 6 figure unsecured loans for his campaign. He has also gotten a lot of money from the banking pac. Well this same bank was a ballot box storage location on election day in 04. Was in the safe actually. Well they just happened to find a ballot box with hundreds of uncounted votes at this location election eve. They open the box and 70% of the ballots go for Cuellar. That seems a bit odd dont it?
Well later TV crews in Laredo investigated voter irregularities and went to Henry Cuellar's fathers house. They knock on the door and read off a list of names of 10+ people who apparently voted and were registered at that address. Old Mr. Cuellar is sitting there dumbfounded and tells the press that none of them live there.
They also detailed voting from locations that were empty lots or condemned houses. The bank the ballots were found in was the International Bank of Commerce, Tony Sanchez's bank.
As damaging as all this may seem, none of it is conclusive proof that Henry Cuellar, or his campaign, had any involvement in voting irregularities, it could be that Ciro Rodriquez was just a lazy campaigner who took the hispanic vote for granted. Let's hope he doesn't make the same mistake this year.