Veteran Texas Democrat Switches to Republicans

[CalHunter]

1 more Republican and 1 less Democrat. I've also heard that there are no democrats running for statewide office in Texas.

Veteran Texas Democrat Switches to Republicans
Sat Jan 3,12:58 AM ET Add Politics - Reuters to My Yahoo!

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Veteran Democratic Rep. Ralph Hall of Texas said on Friday he had switched parties to become a Republican after being denied funds for his district for the first time.

Democrat Switches to Republican Party

[strut]

Yeah I was reading that a day or 2 ago, The article I was reading also stated that since 1992 there had been 174 elected democrats in Texas switch to the Republican party.

[fng]

Years back that would be the equivalent of saying " a dog decides to become a cat".

what this tells me is they ain't too far apart.

think about it.

[whelen36]

this could be a very scary red hering guys , think about it , a large number of dems switching sides to become republicans so they can get elected into office in a conservative state , and then uphold thier democrat beliefs. granted this is on a very wide spread scenario but , think about what that would do to our nation

[Charlie P]

Voting record is what matters not your political party.

[whelen36]

yea charlie , i agree but , not all people go on the voting record , a lot are party voters. those are mainly the voters i was referring too , the ones that actually go by voting record are usually also the ones that watch the debates as well. an example of what i'm talking about is sen. john mccain , he's a conservative party member but , look how liberally slanted his voting record is [&:]

[stork]

Just wants to be a winner? Sounds like he don't have the voters in mind only his carrer to me.

[akbound]

I know a lot of "football fans" like that. "Their" team is whomever is winning at the time....and I don't think much of them either!

Show me a change in substance.....then it means something.