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Article: Texas Rep. Hall to Switch to Republicans
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- January 3, 2004
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DAVID ESPO and SUZANNE GAMBOA, AP Special Correspondent
AP Online
01-03-2004
Dateline: WASHINGTON
Texas Rep. Ralph Hall switched parties Friday night, filing for re-election as a Republican after nearly a quarter-century as one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress.
"I've always said that if being a Democrat hurt my district I would switch or I would resign," Hall said in an interview with The Associated Press. He said GOP leaders had recently refused to place money for his district in a spending bill and "the only reason I was given was I was a Democrat."
In an interview in which he said he had filed to run as a Republican, he also said he didn't agree with "all these guys running ...
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