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TX-Sen: Watts used campaign donations to threaten foe |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 1:34 pm |
| Tags: mikal watts, tx sen, texas, senate, 2008, rick noriega, texans for public justice, craig mcdonald |
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I honestly have little interest in trashing Rick Noriega's Democratic opponent in the Texas Senate primary, but this is bad. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mikal Watts of San Antonio once tried to pressure a legal opponent into a $60 million personal injury lawsuit settlement by claiming he would have an advantage on appeal because of his firm's "heavy" campaign financial support to an appellate court's justices, "all of whom are good Democrats." There is no evidence that his firm's support of justices of the 13th Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi ever gained him any undue influence. But a nine-page letter Watts wrote to opposing counsel in 2001 apparently was intended to make an out-of-state corporation think the donations could sway the court. Watts is running for the Democratic senatorial nomination against Houston state Rep. Rick Noriega. "This letter seems to confirm what everybody thinks about Texas justice. Very seldom is it this well-articulated," said Craig McDonald [ Full article ] |
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