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Texas US Attorney rumors updated

A Democratic attorney friend anonymously forwards me more gossip about possible Texas US Attorney candidates.I'd wondered why we'd heard no rumors about candidates in Texas' Eastern and Southern District, but apparently, in the Eastern District, at least, there's a reason: "there isn't a Congressional Delegation Committee for EDTX yet because there are no Dem Congressmen in that district."This lawyer says that Tammy Reno (no relation to Janet), is the likely frontrunner. "She's the #2 in that office now. Formerly of the NDTX office where she prosecuted coyotes and was working on the public corruption cases when she left to go to the EDTX."The other candidate mentioned in the Eastern District is Judge Bob Wortham of Beaumont, who ironically was US Attorney under Ronald Reagan but later switched parties to run for judge...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 08, 2009 (boomark / email).