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Scott Stroud: SA lawyer draws buzz, cash as Dems look to unseat Cornyn
Lashed to the mast of an increasingly unpopular presidency, Sen. John Cornyn has Democrats buzzing that they might have a chance to put a Texas Democrat in the U.S. Senate for the first time since Lloyd Bentsen stepped down in 1993. And a San Antonio lawyer who has proven his fundraising prowess in a big way has emerged as a leading contender. Mikal Watts, a trial lawyer who moved to San Antonio from Corpus Christi in August so his daughter could attend TMI — the Episcopal School of Texas held a fundraiser at his Dominion home a week ago for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Three U.S. senators — Charles Schumer of New York, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Ken Salazar of Colorado — were among those in attendance. Informally, the event was viewed as a test of Watts' ability to raise money for the party and, perhaps, carry its banner as a candidate next year.
Who asked you, John Suthers?
I've known six Colorado attorneys general in 35 years at The Denver Post, beginning with the legendary Duke W. Dunbar, who served from 1951 to 1973. Dunbar made a vivid impression for two reasons, the first being that his full name was Duke Wellington Dunbar, a fact that prompted longtime Post pundit Tom Gavin to write that the state's top law-enforcement official owed his popularity with the public to "having a lock on the anti-Napoleon vote." Of more consequence was Dunbar's solid reputation for integrity. He loved the law and was famous for always "calling 'em the way he saw 'em," even if his opinions weren't what partisans in his own Republican Party were hoping for. Dunbar, like his successor, John Moore, was a great attorney general who happened to be a Republican.
Plains plans to buy Colorado assets
Plains Exploration & Production Co., an oil and natural gas producer, agreed to buy oil and gas wells in Colorado from closely held Laramie Energy for an estimated $946 million to expand production in the Rocky Mountains. Plains Exploration will pay for the purchase with $900 million in cash and issue 1 million shares of common stock, the Houston-based company said Wednesday. LAW Former Bush aide to return to old firm DALLAS Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers is returning as a partner to her old law firm. Miers, an unsuccessful nominee to the Supreme Court, on May 1 will rejoin Locke Liddell & Sapp, the firm she left to go to Washington in 2001. She will join the firm's public policy group and litigation group, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the firm.
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