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The Houston Chronicle has brief profiles of Republicans running to replace District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal.  Alan Bernstein does the reporting.  In alphabetical order, they are:Jim Leitner  "Leitner was prosecutor, now defense attorney."Pat Lykos.  "Lykos drops the charm to make the court stricter."Doug Perry.  "HPD supervisor touts accounting, law skills."Kelly Siegler.  "Siegler's career in court comes with controversy." In the current issue of Texas Lawyer, Miriam Rozen has, "Houston Group Calls for DA's Resignation in Wake of Controversial E-mails."At its best, e-mail technology delivers unprecedented efficiencies. But for embattled Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal, e-mail on his work computer that contained sexual and racial content has caused nothing but trouble -- so much so that the Houston Lawyers Association, an organization representing 1,500 African-American attorneys, last week called on the DA to resign...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).