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Old 08-04-2008, 01:00 PM
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Former GOP state representative asks Libertarians to drop out of races

Head of LIbertarian Party asking candidates to 'stand firm' after they were urged not to take votes from Republicans in close contests.


By Melissa Mixon, David C. Doolittle
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF


Sunday, August 03, 2008

A former Republican state representative called three Libertarian Party candidates for the state House on Friday to request that they drop out of their races rather than take votes from their Republican opponents.

Suzanna Hupp, who represented District 54 in Central Texas for 10 years, said she made the calls Friday because of concerns that the Libertarian candidates would take Republican votes and ultimately give Democrats control over state and national seats.

"The fact is, we've got redistricting coming up in a few years," said Hupp, from Lampasas, who served in the House from 1997 to 2007, "and if the Republicans lose the (Texas) House of Representatives because there are a handful of people mad at them and vote for the Libertarians instead, then we could be in big trouble at the federal level."

Hector Nieto, a spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party, said he isn't surprised by Hupp's calls given that Democrats need win only five seats in November to take control of the state House. Republicans currently hold 79 of the 150 seats in the House, Nieto said. Democratic lawmakers hold 71.

"Republicans are scared of losing seats," he said. "With control of the Texas House in the balance of this election, I wouldn't be surprised if Republicans try any trick in the book to maintain their grasps of control."

House representatives are responsible for congressional redistricting in the state, which occurs once a decade after each census. How those boundary lines are drawn to a great degree determines whether Republicans or Democrats get particular congressional seats, and how those lines are drawn depends on which party is in power at the time.

Hupp said she called three Libertarian candidates in races where she knew the margin between the Republican and Democrat candidate figures to be close in November. However, one day after she made the calls, Hupp said she could remember only two of the three districts where she had intervened.

The two districts, candidates and calls that Hupp remembered were the same two that Texas Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict already knew about and had told reporters occurred.

Hupp acknowledged calls to the Libertarian candidates for the House seats in District 64 (in North Texas) and District 9 (in East Texas). Hupp said the Republican incumbents in those races, Myra Crownover, R-Denton, and Wayne Christian, R-Center, respectively, did not know Hupp was making the calls.

District 64 Libertarian candidate Jason Jordan said that when Hupp called him, she was polite but was concerned that he would pull votes away from Crownover. Jordan said Hupp told him redistricting was coming up soon and — even if he didn't agree with Republicans on everything — "it's important they have a say in redistricting."

Jordan, a 25-year-old high school teacher who lives in Denton, said he has no plans to drop out of the race.

"I know how things work," Jordan said. "It's not always who has the best ideas but 'who do we need to push out of the way? This hit close to home, made me think, 'That's the way things are.' "

District 9 Libertarian candidate Joe Allport said he received a similar phone call Friday from Hupp.

"She was pretty direct. ... She said that she had heard there were two or three state representative races that she had heard would be close because there's a Democratic race," he said.

Allport said Huff told him that he could possibly meet with Christian to talk about issues that Allport would like to see pushed.

"She said that she couldn't promise me a board seat or some kind of incentive, but that was a possibility," he said.

Hupp said she was not offering board seats but was referring candidates to hundreds of boards where they could have their voices heard.

The Texas Republican Party spokesman, Hans Klingler, could not be reached for comment Saturday, nor could Christian or Crownover.

Benedict said he told Libertarian candidates to "sit tight and stay in the race" after the calls were made. "I told them that Republicans need to earn those votes," he said.
Former GOP state representative asks Libertarians to drop out of races

Looks like Texas Republicans are getting nervous.
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This kind of stuff annoys me. They do not take republican votes, they are not their votes in the first place.
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Give him the finger and tell him that the GOP can't win on their own then they diserve to fail.
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I have a better idea: why don't the Republicans drop out of the race and give the Libertarians a chance? After all, aren't the Republicans stealing votes from Libertarians?
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This kind of stuff annoys me. They do not take republican votes, they are not their votes in the first place.
Oh, but the Republicans, Democrats and media idiots insist that only Democrats and Republicans are entitled to votes and that to vote for anyone else is to take the vote away from those entitled to it.
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Oh, but the Republicans, Democrats and media idiots insist that only Democrats and Republicans are entitled to votes and that to vote for anyone else is to take the vote away from those entitled to it.
Correct.....the 'entitlement mentality' to the n'th degree.
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If the Republicans actually defended the Constitution and believed in personal liberty and minimal government then they wouldn't need to worry about the Libertarian candidates.
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If the Republicans actually defended the Constitution and believed in personal liberty and minimal government then they wouldn't need to worry about the Libertarian candidates.
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I have a better idea: why don't the Republicans drop out of the race and give the Libertarians a chance? After all, aren't the Republicans stealing votes from Libertarians?
they sure are. I second that opinion.
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