Breakfast with Will Pryor - the guy who's going to replace Pete Sessions

[derby378]

Breakfast with Will Pryor
Saturday, July 22 @ 9:30am
Denny's Restaurant, 10433 N. Central Expressway
Dallas, TX

All DUers are invited to come and hear Will Pryor, Democratic candidate for US Representative, Texas Congressional District 32. Now's your chance to see our future Congressman up close and personal.

Please bring or invite a Democratic friend to this event! District 32 Democrats, this is your chance to meet the man who will replace Congressman Pete Sessions, who apparently couldn't even be bothered to cast a vote one way or the other today regarding renewal of the Voting Rights Act.

Once again, the Will Pryor breakfast is on Saturday, July 22 @ 9:30am. See you there!

[sonias]

1. Will Pryor must be elected to restore integrity to CD32

Isn't time someone (hint) started a blog on what a failure Sessions is? How about just a collection of all his scandals and involvement with crooks like Abramoff and Cunningham. Here's a few links

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/6/122954/1445
TX-32 GOP Rep. Pete Sessions' Abramoff connection
The Dallas Morning News today covers one of our local Congresscritters' relation to the unfolding GOP bribery/payoff/etc. scandal. It seems Pete "the Streak" Sessions, TX-32, has been involved with accepting money from some tribes in apparent quid pro quo for opposing gambling in certain other states where there were other tribal casino interests.

http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=116
CREW FILES DOJ COMPLAINT AGAINST TEXAS REP. PETE SESSIONS
Evidence Suggests Quid Pro Quo for Official Actions

Washington, DC - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed a Department of Justice (DOJ) complaint against Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) for official actions he may have taken on behalf of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, as well as possible bribes he may have accepted from a San Francisco defense technology company. The complaint asks for the DOJ to immediately begin an investigation into Rep. Sessions.

How about this link on the DCCC site - GOP Auction House on Sessions
http://dccc.org/gopauctionhouse/members/PeteSessionsTX-32.html

http://www.burntorangereport.com/archives/003474.html
Pete Sessions Helps Major Donor in Divorce Case
Wow. This has the potential to be a juicy story. Sessions filed a sworn affidavit in a divorce case which is disputed by the woman in the case:

In October 2003, Katz filed for divorce, and immediately sued to regain the transferred assets.

On February 11, 2005 - the day of a critical divorce court hearing - a surprise document was introduced by Ahron Katz's attorney. The sworn affidavit from Pete Sessions recalled a "summer 2003 discussion with them both ... via telephone, wherein they discussed their plan to have Lucia hold Ahron's lifetime savings and assets while attempting to resolve Ahron's ongoing legal dispute."

Sessions went on to suggest that "both understood that it was clearly never intended by Ahron to gift the assets to Lucia."

Leslie Martin is Lucia Katz's divorce attorney.

"I couldn't believe it," Martin said. "It was extraordinary that a U.S. congressman would file this type of an affidavit."

She said Sessions' sworn statement presents at least one big problem.

"My client, Mrs. Katz, says that conversation never took place," Martin said. "She's in fact never had a telephone conversation with Congressman Sessions.

He's one lying sack of putrid rot.

Sonia

[CoolOnion]

3. I love your last line...

"He's one lying sack of putrid rot." That's certainly true.

[CoolOnion]

2. I was at Pete Sessions office yesterday

I attended a prayer vigil yesterday at Pete Sessions' office, lead by Rev. Charles Stovall of Munger Place UMC, for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act with no amendments. Rev. Stovall talked to Sessions' legislative aide in D.C., and was assured that Sessions would vote for HR 9--but a check of the Roll Call vote today indicates that he didn't vote.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll374.xml

Pass the word along to the Pryor campaign that Sessions didn't bother to vote--we need to find out why. Any DUers know how to find out if Sessions had a legitimate reason for not showing up to vote?

[derby378]

4. Can you make it to the breakfast on July 22?

This is something we should definitely accentuate unless Sessions had a damn good reason for not voting (child broke leg during recess, Sessions diagnosed with malignant tumor, etc.).

[CoolOnion]

5. I'll be at his open house on 7/23

[CoolOnion]

6. Here's the LTTE I sent to Dallas Morning News

(doubt they'll publish it, but here's the letter I sent):
"On Wednesday, July 12, I attended a prayer vigil at Pete Sessions' office in support of the Voting Rights Act. My minister, Reverend L. Charles Stovall of Munger Place United Methodist Church, spoke on the phone with a legislative aide in Washington, who assured him that Congressman Sessions would vote for the Voting Right Act without amendments.

"So on Thursday, I was surprised to see Mr. Sessions' name among the nine non-voting members of Congress. Then, I checked the Congressional Vote Database maintained by Washington Post, and discovered that Mr. Sessions did not cast any votes during the week of July 10-14.

"Apparently, my Congressman has been away from his job all week, and his staff either doesn't know he's gone, or they're covering for him by assuring constituents that he'll vote a certain way, never imagining that we'll actually look up the voting record. Is it any wonder public confidence in Congress is at an all-time low?