Subject: Re: no special election for DeLay seat until November
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 4/6/2006, 1:39 PM
To: ban@richardwinger.com
CC: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu

apparently Nick Lampson, the Democratic candidate, thought he would have an advantage in a special election, and called on Gov. Perry to call one:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/04/lampson_pushes_special.html


ban@richardwinger.com wrote: 
Governor Rick Perry of Texas today said that he won't
call a special election for the empty DeLay seat
(except there will be one in November, when the
special election will only fill the vacant seat for 2
months while congress won't even be sitting,
probably).

To me, this seems foolish of the Governor, since I
would have thought the special election would have
chosen a Republican.  So Republicans will have one
fewer seat for the next 7 months.

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