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Neil Lisst

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Thu Dec-15-05 07:55 AM
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8. This was a play mandated by the White House, not Delay.

The White House badly wanted to place blame for their nonresponse on the two elected Democrats in Louisiana who were most visible - the mayor and the governor. They wanted to show how organized and compassion the Republican led Texas governments were.

The whole thing was set up around Mayor White, not through him. The primary local spokesman at the time was not Houston's Mayor, but Harris County's Bob Eckels, the County Judge, a Republican.

Harris county is Republican, even though Houston leans Democratic.

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