Pete Sessions has to pay kids to canvass in Oak Cliff

[jburton]

http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/bi/gold_print.cgi

Sessions campaign not willing to concede rival's stronghold

Monday, November 1, 2004

By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News


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Hispanic high school seniors from Oak Cliff alternately chattering in English and Spanish aren't exactly natural political foot soldiers for Rep. Pete Sessions, a white, middle-aged Dallas Republican who proudly considers himself one of the nation's most conservative politicians

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"People are really surprised to see us sometimes when we show up at the door," Dulce said last week as she and her three classmates at Adamson High School canvassed Oak Cliff streets dressed in "Adelante con Pete Sessions" T-shirts – in English, "Progress with Pete Sessions" – and armed with bilingual handbills touting Mr. Sessions' education, prescription drug benefit and job growth record.

"They're surprised to see Hispanics, young people like us," Jose said. "Some people, they know very little about the Republican Party. Many don't want to hear about it," Dulce said as she passed two houses with Frost campaign signs hammered into their small, manicured front lawns. "But many will listen to us, too."

The students don't work for free. The Sessions campaign pays them the equivalent of $10 an hour plus food, said volunteer organizer Lee Patrida.

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[ret5hd]

1. A completely unrelated question...

what were those jews called who worked for the nazis in the camps?

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. Sonderkommandos.

We'll see how excited these folks are about Sessions when he assists them in being drafted next year.

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