Lawmaker Blew Big Bucks to Keep District Lines Unfair — to His Own Voters | Talking Points Memo

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Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX), whose poor West Texas district covers a wide swath of the state’s maquiladora-friendly border region, apparently used $100,000 of his own campaign cash to pay lawyers to fight for Tom DeLay’s discriminatory Texas redistricting plan. (That’s on top of the thousands of dollars Bonilla directed towards the redistricting fight from the coffers of his supposedly pro-minority PAC.)


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