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• Noriega calls on rival Cornyn to return contributions from Stevens
  

  by Robert T. Garrett
  Dallas Morning News

  Rick Noriega called on incumbent GOP Sen. John Cornyn on Tuesday to return campaign contributions from Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, convicted Monday of lying about taking freebies from a wealthy oil contractor.
  
  It was the second day in a row that Mr. Noriega has tried to tie Mr. Cornyn to congressional corruption as their Senate race winds down.
  
  Mr. Cornyn, campaigning in Temple, said he was “very disappointed” and said Mr. Noriega has begun to “make it up out of whole cloth.”
  
  At issue is whether Mr. Cornyn pledged in July to return all money he’s ever received from Mr. Stevens’ political action committee — or just the PAC’s $10,000 contribution to the Texan’s re-election campaign.
  
  Mr. Cornyn said that in his first Senate race in 2002, he received and spent another $10,000 in donations from the Stevens PAC.
  
  In July, after Mr. Stevens was indicted on federal corruption charges, Mr. Cornyn announced he would give the Alaskan’s latest contributions — $5,000 in November and another $5,000 in June — to Big Brothers Big Sisters, a charity he has long supported. There is no dispute that Mr. Cornyn has done that.
  
  On Tuesday, though, Noriega spokesman Martine Apodaca said Mr. Cornyn had pledged “to donate all Stevens money to charity” but had reneged.
  
  “It’s critical that he wash his hands of all donations from a politician convicted of corruption,” Mr. Apodaca said.
  
  Mr. Cornyn said he didn’t promise to cough up 2002 donations already spent — only the more recent ones, “just to eliminate any question.”
  
  He has declined to say whether Mr. Stevens, the Senate’s longest-serving Republican, should be seated if he wins re-election Tuesday.
  
  The Texan is vice-chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, which may have to rule on the matter, Cornyn spokesman Kevin McLaughlin said.
  
  On Monday, Mr. Noriega released an Internet ad that said Mr. Cornyn “did the bidding” of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was trying to keep Indian tribes in Texas from running casinos that could compete with his tribal clients in other states.
  
  Responded Mr. Cornyn, “He knows that that’s not true. I’ve never met Jack Abramoff.”
  
  Mr. Cornyn said that as Texas attorney general, he enforced a state law restricting gambling — and won in the courts. Mr. Cornyn said he never coordinated his anti-casino lawsuit, filed in 1999, with Mr. Abramoff or his associate, Ralph Reed.
  
  The Noriega camp based its claim on e-mails between Mr. Reed and Mr. Abramoff in 2001-02.
  
  A 2006 investigation by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee found that Mr. Abramoff and Mr. Reed had no influence on Mr. Cornyn’s lawsuit and that beyond Mr. Abramoff’s e-mail claims, there was no evidence Mr. Cornyn had provided information to the two lobbyists.

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• Noriega rallies supporters in Beaumont
  

  by Blair Dedrick Ortmann
  Beaumont Enterprise

  After touring Bridge City, Orange and Galveston for the first time since several days after Hurricane Ike, Rick Noriega said he was disappointed. 
  
  "As an American and as a Texan, I'm appalled that FEMA and the federal government have not responded better," said the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night at a rally in Beaumont. "I don't know how many hurricanes it's going to take."
  
  Noriega is campaigning for the seat currently held by Republican John Cornyn. Noriega said Cornyn had done little but pose for the camera during the hurricane response.
  
  "While he's walking through fields cutting television ads, he needs to be walking through Bridge City and helping people get on with their lives," Noriega said, referring to Cornyn's campaign ads.
  
  According to Enterprise archives, Cornyn has visited Southeast Texas since Hurricane Ike, including an Oct. 8 meeting in which he joined local officials in asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency for information about temporary housing.
  
  Tuesday was Noriega's seventh day on a statewide tour which will end with the election Nov. 4.
  
  For Daylyn Turner, a 40-something trainer with J.K. Chevrolet from Beaumont, Noriega is part of the "change campaign" that includes Barack Obama.
  
  "Change is good. New ideas, fresh ideas," he said. "A lot of folk have had the opportunity to run the Congress, run the states, and I just think it's time for a person with a different flavor to run things. If somebody's got a new idea, it's time for them to get in the game."
  
  Rachel Gunther, 29, who volunteers with the Jefferson County Democratic Party, agreed.
  
  "I believe if Barack Obama is going to be an effective president, he needs Democratic senators," she said. "I believe Noriega will be effective for our children, and he's the one I want in office."
  
  Noriega sees himself as providing an alternative to Texans tired of the status quo.
  
  "Like most Texans, I'm fed up," Noriega said. "We can do so much better that we have the last four years."
  
  The 27-year veteran of the U.S. Army and Army Reserves and current member of the Texas House of Representatives said the differences between himself and Cornyn are many.
  
  For example, on health care, Noriega wants all Texans, especially children, to have health care. Cornyn is against universal health care, according to information from his campaign.
  
  Noriega wants to begin phasing out the United States' military presence in Iraq, while Cornyn supported the troop surge and does not support a timetable for withdrawal.
  
  According to the Cornyn campaign, Noriega has proposed more than $1.4 trillion in new spending, while Cornyn has been an advocate of fiscal responsibility.

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• Noriega grabs endorsements from South Texas police
  

  kauz.com
  October 23, 2008
  
  (AP) Democratic Senate nominee Rick Noriega accepted the endorsements Tuesday of rank-and-file law enforcement officers from some of the Rio Grande Valley's largest departments.
  
  Standing in the shade of the Hidalgo County courthouse, Noriega picked up manpower that will be critical in his pursuit of incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in the final two weeks of the campaign.
  
  Cornyn released new television and radio ads Tuesday in which he discusses the troubled economy. In the ads, he says Texans are optimists but that the economy is tough and people are struggling.
  
  "Partisanship, politicians pointing fingers, negative ads -- those don't help anyone. We should work together and get back to basics: good schools, strong families, low taxes, and finally make government work again," Cornyn says.
  
  Noriega's campaign, which says it will soon return to the television airwaves with a new ad of its own, responded that it doesn't help Texans to side with President Bush 95 percent of the time, as it said Cornyn had.
  
  "He likes to pretend he wasn't in Washington the last six years pointing fingers and supporting the failed economic policies of the Bush administration that drove this economy into the ditch," said Noriega spokesman Martine Apodaca.
  
  In Edinburg, Noriega said Cornyn was part of a failed federal immigration policy that left local law enforcement shouldering to much of the burden "when it's something the federal government should be doing."
  
  Noriega, as a lieutenant colonel in Texas National Guard, served on the Texas-Mexico border as part of Operation Jumpstart to bolster local law enforcement in securing the border.
  
  Endorsing Noriega Tuesday were police unions from Brownsville, Mercedes, Pharr and McAllen, as well as deputy sheriffs associations from Hidalgo, Cameron and Webb counties. Several Valley police chiefs and sheriffs from counties farther west along the border have endorsed Cornyn, as well as the 600-member South Texas Organization of Police, an affiliate of the Texas Municipal Police Association.
  
  As Noriega was boasting of more Valley endorsements, Cornyn was pointing to his backing from a bipartisan group from across the state called Veterans for Cornyn.
  
  Despite a huge fundraising imbalance, lower name recognition and Cornyn's occasional success in rounding up Democratic endorsements, Noriega is expected to receive strong the support in the heavily Democratic Rio Grande Valley.

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• U.S. Senate: Houstonian Rick Noriega is an old-fashioned Texas Democrat with the right voice for these new times.
  

  Houston Chronicle
  
  Come January, the halls of Congress will likely be populated by strengthened Democratic majorities in both the House of Representati