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And as this is the last Tom DeLay "election" (at least for awhile), I'll use this as opportunity to remind people of the unfair treatment that the Comical has long held against DeLay in their NEWS coverage...

Accidental Houston Chronicle memo admits to tainting the news with political agenda (Posted on 11/25/2002)
A Houston odyssey: DeLay, Lanier and light rail
Posted to HoustonChronicle.com Nov. 20,2002
Next November, voters in the city and across the Metropolitan Transit Authority service area will cast a truly important vote: They will decide whether Metro should be permitted to expand our rail rail system beyond the 7-mile South Main line.
There isn't a more critical issue on the horizon. I propose a series of editorials, editorial cartoons and Sounding Board columns leading up to the rail referendum, with this specific objective: Continuing our long standing efforts to make rail a permanent part of the transit mix here.
The timing, language and approach of the paper's editorials would, of course, be the decision of the Editorial Board. But I suggest that they could be built upon and informed by a news-feature package with an equally specific focus: Telling the story of rail here by examining the long term relationship of the two key players in the local transit wars -- Rep. Tom DeLay and former Mayor Bob Lanier. For better or worse, (mostly worse, I would argue) no two have had a more significant impact on transit decisions here. Our readers deserve to know how they've operated to fund and promote an anti-rail agenda for the past two decades. This would be vital information for voters as they come to their decision on rail. It would also be highly entertaining read....

And that rail line we voted on? The one that approved rail on Westpark? Well they changed their mind and screwed the voters and decided to ram it down Richmond instead. Bait and switch? Tyranny? Corruption, whatever it is.