Interesting way to be a whore

Take the money, upfront, before screwing anyone, paid by those benevolent corporations.
The New York Times > Business > A Texan's Race Could Lead to the F.C.C.:

Becky Armendariz Klein is widely expected to lose her bid for Congress in Texas. But that has not stopped executives and lawyers from the nation's largest telephone and energy companies from pouring money into her campaign.

Indeed, some of her strongest supporters expect her to fail.

Running as a Republican in a heavily Democratic district in Texas against a five-term incumbent, Ms. Klein, 39, has received more in donations and fund-raising help from the telecommunications and power industries than any other rookie candidate in the nation.

Why is Ms. Klein such a draw? Because administration officials have said that in the event of a second Bush administration she would be considered by the president, whom she served as a senior policy adviser when he was governor of Texas, as a candidate to be the next head of the Federal Communications Commission. And even if that does not work out, she is expected to receive a seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, should a vacancy occur. Her husband is a senior official at the Pentagon.

Ms. Klein, who stepped down in January as chairwoman of the Texas Public Utility Commission, is challenging Lloyd Doggett, a Democratic member of Congress since 1995 in a newly created Congressional district, the 25th, which snakes 350 miles from the southern end of Austin to the Texas-Mexico border town of McAllen. As of June 30, the latest filing by the campaign with the Federal Election Commission, Ms. Klein had raised about $450,000, less than half of the more than $1.1 million raised by Mr. Doggett.

but at least it looks like Doggett is projected to win. Screw Delay, that Frenchie bug-man anyway.