Monroe, Stanford, Brown, and YowellU.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank Monroe of Austin, throwing some debtors out of court because of an "inane" requirement in the new federal bankruptcy law that they should have sought credit counseling before asking for relief: "It should be obvious to the reader at this point how truly concerned Congress is for the individual consumers of this country. Apparently, it is not the individual consumers of this country that make the donations to the members of Congress that allow them to be elected and re-elected and re-elected and re-elected. The court's hands are tied... Congress must surely be pleased." Jason Stanford of the Chris Bell camp, critiquing Bob Gammage's boast of belonging to the "Dirty 30," a group of lawmakers who overthrew a speaker and half of their colleagues in an ethics purge in the early 1970s, in The Dallas Morning News: "It's hard to base a campaign on a history lesson." Republican House candidate Colby Brown, R-Fort Worth, on tinkering with Texas taxes for school finance, in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "I don't want to propose anything perverse to the economy." Nueces County Republican Party Chairman Joel Yowell, telling the Corpus Christi Caller-Times he wasn't spying when he came to the campaign kick-off for Democratic House candidate Juan Garcia III: "I understood there was free food so I came down here for that."