Reply #14: Also, "West Texas candidate files suit alleging fraud in recount"

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http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=2696246

and

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-12-03/pols_capitol.html

HOME: DECEMBER 3, 2004: NEWS: SORE WINNERS

Sore Winners

HOME: DECEMBER 3, 2004: NEWS: SORE WINNERS

Sore Winners

The GOP seems determined to make representative government a game of 'winner-take-all'
BY MICHAEL KING

middle of article:

Closer to home, last week two defeated GOP state House candidates decided that Texas voters, otherwise so generous to Republicans, couldn't possibly have meant it when they rejected these two fine upstanding wannabes – even after recounts confirmed the voters' initial decision. One is Eric Opiela, a rookie barely out of UT Law School but with heavyweight Austin backing, who is challenging the election of Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles in District 35, near Corpus Christi. The other is more formidable: Houston's Talmadge Heflin, a 22-year incumbent and budget chair who lost to Democratic newcomer Hubert Vo in the District 149 race by just 32 votes. Both men say they will come to the House in January – where, not incidentally, the Republicans will hold an 87-63 majority, even without them – and ask their would-be colleagues to overturn the results and either seat them outright or order new elections.