NEW ORLEANS (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling against the Texas Republican Party in its effort to remove former Rep. Tom DeLay from the ballot in his old Sugar Land district this November.
The state GOP will appeal "expeditiously to the Supreme Court," party officials said.
"We do intend to appeal the decision," Gretchen Essell, spokeswoman for the Texas Republican Party, told CNN. Through the party's attorney, James Bopp Jr., state GOP chairwoman Tina Benkiser repeated this plan
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/03/delay.ballot/index.html
Comment: this same Congress has been his friends' for years, and once considered a W.H. insider,are fighting to attempt to get his name off the ballot before the November elections.
The poeople is DeLay's district can either write in the person of their choice or vote for DeLay, which would be moot anyway.
The article said there were no other candidates that are running in DeLay's Sugarland District. It could be possible that a Democrat wins his seat, but it is definitely a Republican district. DeLay had it redisctricted years ago so it remained a Republican stronghold.
Texas has some very strange laws.
I'm wondering if Duke Cunningham's name will appear on the ballot even though he is serving 8 years in prison for taking bribes and other corruption? Then again Cunningham isn't from Texas.
