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Monday, August 4, 2003
Senator says Perry is dividing, not
By Natalie Gott
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Unlike
President George W. Bush, who united
people when he was Texas governor,
his successor. Gov. Rick Perry, is divid
ing Texans, the leader of the walkout by
11 Democratic senators said Sunday.
“The difference was Bush was the
great uniter. Perry and (U.S. House
Majority Tom) DeLay are the great
dividers,” said Sen. Leticia Van de
Putte of San Antonio, chairwoman of
the Senate Democratic Caucus.
Van de Putte also said the current
special legislative session, which Perry
called last week, is dead. She said a
redistricting bill could get approval
during another legislative session but
listed a group of conditions that would
have to be met for it to get out of the
Legislature.
For instance, both the House and
Senate would have to get quorums and
Republicans in both chambers would
have to agree on a map, she said.
“There’s a lot of ifs there,” she said.
Her comments came on the sixth day
of the Democratic boycott of the Texas
Senate in protest over congressional
redistricting. The Texas congressional
delegation is ruled 17-15 by the
Democrats but Republicans, led by
DeLay, are pushing for a new map that
likely would give the GOP the majority.
Van de Putte said as governor. Bush
made a great effort to bring minorities
into the Republican Party. She said
Perry, on the other hand, was threaten
ing to lock up in the Senate chamber the
Hispanic and black senators so they
would be forced to vote on a redistrict
ing map that she said would disenfran
chise minorities.
“What kind of image is that?” Van
de Putte said. “1 think the real danger
here is not to Governor Perry. I think
the real danger here is to the White
House and the Republican efforts that
would want to be so inclusive.”
Perry spokeswoman Kathy Walt said
Van de Putte’s allegations are ludicrous
and that Perry does not have the author-
The difference was Bush
was the great uniter. Perry
and DeLay are the great di
viders.
— Leticia Van de Putte
Senator, D-San Antonio
ity to lock senators in the chamber.
Only the lieutenant governor can lock
the senators into the chamber.
“Her accusations are intended to
obscure the fact that they ran away
from their job and their responsibility,”
Walt said. “They can’t begin to repre
sent their constituents while they are in
New Mexico.”
Walt said Perry drew 35 percent of
the Hispanic vote in 2002 and his poli
cies on education, economic develop
ment and other issues have brought
more Hispanics to the Republican
Party.
Van de Putte acknowledged that she
believed that presidential adviser Karl
Rove has been involved in the redis
tricting effort.
“1 don’t know whose puppet strings
are controlling which puppet at this
point in the Republican Party,” she said.
She also took a personal swipe at
Perry.
He’s “not the brightest porch light
on the block,” Van de Putte said. But,
“he really looks good in jeans."
Walt said Van de Putte is stooping to
personal attacks to try to turn the issue
away from the fact that “they ran away
from their responsibilities.”
DeLay spokesman Jonathan Grella
THE BATTALION
uniting
said Democrats will say and do any
thing to avoid their constitutional
responsibility, including name calling
and fleeing out of state.
“We’ll let them call names and ran
wherever they see fit but the peopleo(
Texas disagree with their tactics and
want to see them fulfill their responsi
bilities,” Grella said.
Attempts to approve a redistricting
bill failed during the regular legislalivt
session and the first special session,
Perry last week called lawmakers bad
for a second special session to try
again.
The Democrats, however, fled in
Albuquerque before he called the ses
sion. Their absence has blocked a quo
rum in the Senate, preventing the lass-
makers who stayed in Austin from Id-
ing up business in the chamber.
The Democrats have pledged to stay
out of Austin until the second 30-day
special session is over at the endoftlie
month.
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FBI alters intelligence
to fit espionage threat
By Curt Anderson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The world
wants what America has, from cut
ting-edge computer software to sci
entific research and sensitive defense
technology, and nations and overseas
companies are increasingly using
espionage to get it.
In fact, the FBI believes more for
eign spies than ever are operating in
the United States.
Even as it concentrates on pre
venting terrorism, the FBI is over
hauling its counterintelligence efforts
to blunt the threat. Agents are less
focused on finding spies among
diplomats and embassies — hall
marks of the long Cold War with the
Soviet Union — and more interested
in espionage directed at corporations,
research centers and universities.
“Left unchecked, such a situation
could greatly undermine U.S. nation
al security and U.S. military and eco
nomic advantage,” FBI Director
Robert Mueller told Congress
recently.
For instance, the FBI believes
China has more than 3,000 “front”
companies in the United States
whose real purpose is to direct espi
onage efforts. Many of the thousands
of Chinese visitors, students and
business people who come to i
country each year also have a gov
ernment intelligence task to perforai,
authorities say.
The FBI ranks China as the great
est espionage threat to the Unitd
States in the next 10 years to ISyeait
“They figured out that what the;
want is throughout the United States,
not just embassies, not just con
sulates,” David Szady, FBI assistant
director for counterintelligence, sail
in an interview with The Associated
Press. “It’s a major effort.”
China is not alone. Russia remaini
an espionage power, and the United
States also must be vigilant against
adversaries such as Iran and Nortl
Korea. Friendly countries such as
Taiwan and India also pose a threat,
There are 40,000 foreign diplo
matic officials in the United States,
some of whom are intelligence offi
cers. Saudi Arabia alone has900offi-
cials in this country.
Modern espionage can range from
finding out where an aerospace com
pany produces gyroscopes for satel
lites to socializing with a U.S,
nuclear research scientist in hopesol
gaining scraps of knowledge. In one
recent case, adhesive maker Avery
Denison estimated a $50 million loss
after a spy sold company secretstoa
Taiwanese conglomerate.
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