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“A major moral cost of corruption is our children growing up in a world where lying, cheating, and stealing appear to be acceptable. It’s a world where leaders embrace perjury, take money under false pretenses, and lack any code of honor so they refuse to try to correct the wrongs in which they’re involved,” says Radnofsky.

Radnofsky will detail her anti-corruption initiatives at the press conference.

“The cost of corruption is economic loss, waste, higher taxes, poor health care and education systems, and our inability to compete,” Radnofsky says. “Corruption has forced the early retirement of teachers under the ‘windfall elimination’ bill, has raised drug prices under the prescription drug bill, and robs Texans with unfair transportation funding formulas.”

Texans now recognize the cost of corruption, and recent polling shows the trend. Since the last Zogby poll in November, Barbara has improved her numbers among Democrats from 63% to 73%. This is among all likely voters, not Democratic Primary voters. While 14% of Democrats remain undecided, less than 1% favor a candidate other than Radnofsky or Hutchison. Looking towards the general election in November, Radnofsky continues her steady gains among moderate voters and now leads Hutchison 45% to 38%. This is a reversal from September when moderates favored Hutchison over Radnofsky 51% to 36%. The poll was conducted by Zogby International January 6-12 among 1097 likely voters as part of their year-long Battleground States Survey. Margin of error is 3.0%.

Matt Angle, Texas political strategist and former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, commented on the poll saying “John Zogby is a well known and respected national pollster. His survey of the Texas Senate race is interesting. Clearly Barbara Radnofsky has the opportunity to build a coalition of moderate and progressive voters that, over time, could make this race competitive.”

Radnofsky’s initiative will include the following “to do” items for Sen. Hutchison:

1. Renounce perjury
2. Return the money she accepted from El Paso's Tigua Indian tribe, who were defrauded by indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff
3. Make good on the promise she made to the people of South Texas recently when she echoed Radnofsky’s call for a VA hospital south of San Antonio.

Press packets can be obtained via e-mail from seth@radnofsky.com, or from the web site, http://www.radnofsky.com under the Press section.

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Seth Davidson
Communications Director
Barbara Ann Radnofsky US Senate 2006
www.radnofsky.com
713-865-0416

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