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      <excerpt>...&#8211; Congressional candidate Jerry Ray Hall boasts of ponying up $500,000 of his own money to defeat longtime incumbent Rep. Ralph Hall in March's Republican primary. But the Federal Election Commission hasn't received the challenger's candidacy statemen</excerpt>
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