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Texas Dem. Lawyers Flee to NM to Protest GOP

HeadlineJul 29, 2003

For the second time in three months Democratic state lawmakers from Texas fled the state yesterday in an attempt to block a Republican move to redraw the state?s congressional districts to be more friendly to the GOP.

Eleven of the 12 Democrats went to Albuquerque. Three months ago, members of the Texas House holed themselves up in a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma.

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