AUSTIN -- The Republican legislative battle over redistricting may do more than give Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick a new U.S. House seat for his hometown of Midland. It also might send one of President Bush's friends and former business partners to Congress.
K. Michael Conaway -- who was vice president, secretary and treasurer of Bush Exploration for five years -- is the only known Republican poised to run in the proposed Midland-based congressional district if Craddick wins his fight with Senate Republicans on how to redraw West Texas.
Craddick has said he wants a Midland district that Conaway can win.
"I know Tom is way set to get it drawn the way he wants to or it goes down," Conaway, 54, said Tuesday. "Tom's prepared to go either way: not have a bill at all or get it done the way he wants it done."
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Sue Brannon, the Midland County Republican chair, said she is confident Bush would like to see a congressional district created for his former hometown.
"I've talked to him about it, and I know a lot of people out here have talked to him about it," Brannon said. "I know what he thinks about it ... but me commenting publicly on what he thinks about it is not a wise thing to do."
Brannon said she knows of no Republicans who would challenge Conaway in a primary if the new district is created.
Conaway said he met Bush shortly after his 1978 run for Congress. As a certified public accountant, Conaway audited Bush's company for three years before joining it as vice president.
Conaway later was the senior vice president and chief financial officer of the United Bank of Midland, the institution that loaned Bush $500,000 so he could buy his share of the Texas Rangers baseball team.
And it was on that fake "loan" that Dubya made his fake fortune that paid for the fake ranch to support the fake presidency that waged the fake war based on fake intelligence and propped up with fake rhetoric about fake democracy.
He may be a fake cowboy, but he's a genuine horse thief.
