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Insurance firms helped GOP win Legislature

AUSTIN -- Insurance companies fighting tighter state regulations were major corporate donors to a business lobby group's mail campaign that helped Republicans take control of the Legislature in the 2002 elections, the Austin American-Statesman reported Friday. The newspaper examined records released by the Texas Association of Business that identify 18 corporations, 15 of them insurance companies, that helped finance the mailings. The Texas Supreme Court ordered the association last month to release the records to Democratic legislative candidates who sued the association after losing their races in 2002. Those Democrats contend that the TAB worked with Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to funnel corporate money into the Texas House race

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