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  • Rumored visit leaves Dems worried over bugs (Chicken Little Ds blame Tom DeLay, none found)

    08/21/2003 8:48:33 PM PDT · by weegee · 40 replies · 293+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 21, 2003, 2:56PM | By RACHEL GRAVES
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- After rumors swept the ranks of Texas Senate runaways that arch-foe Tom DeLay had been in town, the Democrats swept their Marriott hotel rooms Wednesday for electronic bugs. They found no evidence of eavesdropping, but 11 Texas Democratic senators on the lam in Albuquerque took the possibility of cloak-and-dagger tactics at least somewhat seriously. "There have been some clicks and some things like that," said Sen. Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio, chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and a leader of the boycott of a special session on redistricting. She said staffers did not tell...