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LLoyd Listened!

OK, maybe not. But I wrote my congressman, Lloyd Doggett, a few weeks ago and asked him to publicly endorse Obama.  I knew at least he would probably not be for Hillary because he lead a very valiant but heartbreaking effort in the House to stop the AUMF in 2002 and has spoken out recently against saber rattling on Iran. I didn't even get a response from him, truthfully. But today it's up on the Obama website:

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) Endorses Obama for President

U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) today endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States. 

“When he stands up, all the world will know that America really has changed, that the disastrous policies of the last eight years have ended,” said Congressman Doggett, a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention. “That is why today, I am announcing my vote for and endorsement of Barack Obama.”

“My decision is not based on what is wrong with another candidate, but what is right with him.”

“Today, I am adding one more delegate vote to Senator Obama's total, and  I am adding my every effort to help win the support he needs among our neighbors here in Central Texas, win the nomination nationwide, and win the general election in November, so that in 334 days, President Obama can take the helm and set the new course that this country so needs.”


If you don't know who Lloyd Doggett is, he's the congressman who has represented Austin for 14 years. He is also the primary target of that famed Texas gerrymandering--which made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and which will one day (I hope) land Tom Delay in jail. They gerrymandered Lloyd's district into a piece of spagetti going down to the Rio Grande and he still won in a landslide. (The supreme court made them fix his district since then.) In answer to a question on another thread about poor Kirk Watson's public humiliation: There are good politicians in Texas. Lloyd Doggett is one of them.

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