Congressman (Rodriguez TX) files lawsuit challenging primary recount

[lostnfound]

LAREDO -- U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez on Wednesday filed his much-anticipated lawsuit challenging the Democratic primary recount in District 28, saying there is no reasonable way to explain how more than 400 new votes appeared in two South Texas counties. The lawsuit asks the court to declare Rodriguez the winner of the primary over Henry Cuellar or to order a new election in the district, which runs in the Interstate 35 corridor from San Marcos to Laredo.
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Rodriguez, of San Antonio, led by 150 votes in the reconfigured district when 419 previously untallied ballots were discovered during the recount in the Cuellar strongholds of Webb and Zapata counties.
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In Zapata County, where Cuellar's mother was born, a box containing 304 early-voting ballots was found during the recount. Cuellar, who served as Texas secretary of state under Republican Gov. Rick Perry, received nearly 80 percent of those votes.
In neighboring Webb County, the recount turned up 115 more votes than were actually cast in the primary. All those excess votes went to Cuellar, as well as an additional 62 ballots judged during the recount. Rodriguez got no additional votes in Webb.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2506784

[lostnfound]

1. Other threads say DINO Cuellar supported Bush

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=113150

[lostnfound]

2. Rodriguez fought the Pubs; Cuellar's spokesman is a Pub

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=495349#497192

[Robbien]

3. About time

This has been fishy since the get go. I thought Rodriguez was going to cave to the pressure and not file the lawsuit.

[jobycom]

4. Cuellar is dirty

"The caucus’s worry stems, in part, from the political leanings of a bank president at the center of the recount controversy. The International Commerce Bank — where hundreds of absentee ballots were discovered that gave Cuellar victory — is run by Dennis Nixon, a well-known Republican fundraiser."

http://www.hillnews.com/news/040704/cuellar.aspx

I'm not sure whether this means that the ballots were cast at the IBC branch, or what, but Dennis Nixon is an employee of Tony Sanchez, former "Democratic" nominee for governor in Texas. IBC was once a savings and loan, and was accused of money laundering for drug dealers. It also went belly up, like so many S&Ls, and was bailed out. Sanchez was cleared of any wrongdoing in both the laundering and the belly-up case.

Guess who's federal investigative branches cleared him? G HW Bush's. Guess who Sanchez then supported as governor, then president-- giving tons of money to? George W Bush.

Guess what governor Henry Cuellar used to work as secretary of state for? Wrong, not GW. Rick Perry. Republican.

This is a Texas plot to steal a seat for the Repubs. They are already talking about Cuellar switching parties, so there will be no Democrat in this race if Rodriquez doesn't win.

[David__77]

5. This is very serious.

It seems there may be a conspiracy.

[Robbien]

6. No conspiracy. Just politics as usual in the BushCo new world order

If Diebold doesn't deliver the votes, count on the corporate elite to step into the breach.

[damnraddem]

7. See, you don't need electronics for BBV.

And the 'discovered' ballot box doesn't even have to be black.

In Chicago, the boxes used to be coffins.