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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (284187)	4/15/2004 12:48:29 AM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 436258

Republican Election Shifts on Cross-Dressing Wed Apr 14, 8:56 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas Republican who was once a front-runner in a runoff race for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives lost the election on Tuesday after reports circulated earlier this month saying he enjoyed dressing in women's clothes, local media reported. Sam Walls, 64, lost to real estate developer Rob Orr, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Walls garnered about 40 percent of the vote to Orr's some 60 percent, the paper said. Walls' campaign for the Republican runoff election for a seat in Johnson County, south of Fort Worth, went off track about two weeks ago when pictures of the candidate dressed in women's clothes circulated among local political leaders. Walls won the endorsement of several leading Republicans in the state but saw the momentum in the election shift when the pictures surfaced showing him in a dress, high heels and a wig, analysts said. Walls has told reporters his family had "dealt with" the issue of his cross-dressing and that he asked for forgiveness. Orr's campaign denies leaking the photos of his opponent in women's clothes.