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Williamson’s campaigning at trial causes conflict
AUSTIN (AP) — Campaigning to
prospective jurors at a murder trial
got Republican attorney general
hopeful Barry Williamson sent out
of the room by the judge and criti
cized by his runoff opponent.
“I tell you what. Barry’s lucky the
judge didn’t hold him in contempt
and put him in jail,” rival lohn
Cornyn said Tuesday. “That kind of
a blunder is one that not even a
novice lawyer would make.”
Williamson showed up in Llano,
where 280 prospective jurors were
gathered Monday for the capital
murder trial of Bobby Wayne Woods
of Granbury, who is charged in the
abduction and slaying of an 11-
year-old girl.
Williamson shook hands with
prospective jurors and handed out
literature until District Judge Tom
Crum sent word that he did not
want him in the room.
Cornyn, a former Texas Supreme
Court justice, said Williamson
made a serious mistake.
“Every lawyer and really every cit
izen understands the sanctity of the
jury. And to invade the jury process
for partisan political gain I think just
shows crass insensitivity,” he said.
Williamson led the March GOP
primary with 38 percent of the vote.
Cornyn got 32 percent. The winner
next Tuesday faces Democrat Jim
Mattox, a former attorney general,
in November.
Williamson spokesman Eric
Bearse defended the candidate and
again attacked Cornyn for holding
two court posts simultaneously —
on the Supreme Court and a judicial
administrative job in San Antonio.
“The worst thing you can say is
that Barry aggressively shook some
hands while John Cornyn shook
down the taxpayers drawing two
salaries,” Bearse said. “This cam
paign’s in good shape.”
Cornyn said the Llano incident
reinforces his contention that
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Williamson — who voluntarily
stopped practicing law between
1989 and 1994 — isn’t qualified to
be the state’s top lawyer.
“Barry once again has sort of
demonstrated his lack of awareness
of some of the most basic legal
processes and, I think, demon
strates once again why he is not
qualified to be attorney general,”
Cornyn said.
“He sort of acts with almost
childlike glee and not understand
ing that everyone else is sort of re
coiling in horror, and I think it’s re
ally sad,” Cornyn said.
An account of the Llano events
was published Tuesday by the Fort
Worth-Star Telegram.
The newspaper quoted
Williamson as saying he saw noth
ing wrong with campaigning in the
makeshift courtroom at the Ameri
can Legion post, which was being
used because Llano’s regular court
room wasn’t large enough.
Race for lieutenant governor going
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DALLAS (AP) — De
mocrat John Sharp on
Tuesday challenged Re
publican Rick Perry, his
opponent for lieutenant
governor, to release fed
eral income tax returns.
During a debate before
the Texas and Southwest
ern Cattle Raisers Associ
ation convention, Sharp
called on Perry to make
public his IRS returns for
the past seven years.
“Let’s take our income
tax returns and put them
on the table,” he said.
Sharp, state comptrol
ler since 1991, said Perry
needed to disclose how he
became a millionaire since
being elected agriculture
commissioner in 1991.
Perry did not respond
to the call during the de
bate, but campaign
spokesman Ray Sullivan
said Perry will disclose
those document after the
April 15 tax-filing deadline.
The debate was
marked by little disagree
ment on issues between
the one-time Texas A&M
University classmates.
Both pledged to fight
against restrictions on
what use landowners can
do with their property
and both opposed a per
sonal income tax.
Perry pledged support
for school vouchers for stu
dents in low-performing
schools to allow students
educational alternatives.
They did trade barbs
on some peripheral issues.
Trying to score with
the 400 members and
dignitaries, many of them
conservative. Perry cited
Sharp’s endorsement by
the Texas AFL-CIO.
Sharp dismissed that
as a false issue, saying for
mer Cov. Dolph Briscoe,
an elder statesman of the
cattle raiser’s association,
also enjoyed support
from organized labor.
“Just because the Log
Cabin Republicans (a
group of gay Republi
cans) are working for you
doesn’t mean you’re for
gay rights,” Sharp said.
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Clinton administration
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