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AAI Bulletin
Posted on Tuesday March 7, 2006

Congratulations to Arab American candidate Amir Omar, who has advanced to a primary run-off election in Texas’ 30th Congressional District. Omar, of Palestinian and Persian descent, was recommended by the Dallas Morning News (Sun, Feb 5, 2006) which said, “It is Mr. Omar who, we believe, has the charisma and fresh ideas to attract the crossover appeal necessary to be more than a blip in the election returns from this historically Democratic district.” Omar trailed leading candidate Wilson Aurbach by only 298 votes out of a total 3593 votes cast in the 30th district Republican primary. Third place candidate was eliminated with only 697 votes. Omar and Aurbach will face off directly on April 11. The winner of that contest will face incumbent Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson in November.

Hany El-Qutub and at least 10 other Arab American activists have been busy running an aggressive Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaign in Texas. As we reported last week, Hany El-Qutub, Dr. Abdel Kader Fustok, Ahmad Yaseen and Linda Sobeh put on a very successful candidates night at the Arab American Cultural & Community Center in Houston.