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Political Gambit: Dems Plan On Running LTG Sanchez (ret.) For Senate In Texas
Democrats appear to have recruited retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to run for the U.S. Senate in Texas, setting the stage for the party to field a well-known candidate in the 2012 race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.Former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, a Democrat, confirmed that Democratic Senate campaign chief Patty Murray, D-Wash., was referring to Sanchez on Thursday when she said Democrats were close to announcing a candidate in Texas. Sanchez, reached by phone at his San Antonio home, asked where the reports of a Senate run came from and then said, I can neither confirm nor deny. Sanchez, the former top military commander in Iraq who was left under a cloud from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, would not discuss the Senate race. Already, LTG Sanchez is emphasizing that hes going to be more to the right than the average Democrat: I would describe myself as during my military career as supporting the president and the Constitution, Sanchez said. After the military, I decided that socially, Im a progressive, a fiscal conservative and a strong supporter, obviously, of national defense. Sanchez himself wrote and signed a 2003 memo that included specific interrogation tactics approved for use despite noting that they may violate the Geneva Conventions. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sanchez denied signing off on these interrogation methods. Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-17 |
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