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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:42 AM Oct 2019

Former lawmaker's planned congressional comeback clouded

Paul J. Weber and Will Weissert, Associated Press
Updated 11:51 pm CDT, Friday, October 11, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Republican Rep. Pete Sessions' climb back into Congress was already off to a rough start, with some in his own party suggesting he was carpetbagging by leaving the Dallas district he lost last fall to try to get elected in a far more rural and politically safe one.

Now he may have bigger problems: a federal indictment that appears to link him to a campaign finance scheme and the Ukraine scandal at the heart of the impeachment investigation.

Sessions spent 22 years in Congress becoming a powerful Republican voice and the muscle behind the GOP's House takeover of 2010. But Texas' shifting demographics saw his once reliably red district become a tossup, and Sessions lost in November to Democrat Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker.

Last week, Sessions announced an attempted comeback in his boyhood hometown of Waco, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Dallas, running for a seat being vacated by Rep. Bill Flores, one of six Texas GOP congressmen retiring next year.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Arrests-may-cloud-district-switching-Republican-s-14515154.php

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Former lawmaker's planned congressional comeback clouded (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2019 OP
Pete Sessions is an asshole Gothmog Oct 2019 #1

Gothmog

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1. Pete Sessions is an asshole
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 03:06 PM
Oct 2019

I was so happy when Colin Allred beat him. This attempt to come back will fail

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