Harris County District Attorney Charles A. "Chuck" Rosenthal Jr. pulled the plug on his Republican re-election campaign after all on Wednesday at the climax of a day of flip-flopping, intrigue, political pressure and clock management.
The county Republican Party officially accepted his one-sentence withdrawal letter three minutes before the deadline for removing candidates from the March 4 primary ballot — and three days after Rosenthal had defiantly vowed to run and win, despite a scandal over intimate e-mails he sent to his executive secretary, Kerry Stevens.
The action means Harris County, the nation's leading jurisdiction for sentencing murderers to death by injection, will get a new chief prosecutor next January after eight years of service by Rosenthal.
He plans to serve the remainder of his current term through 2008.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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