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Texas' Lesser-Known Contenders for Republican Presidential Nomination

By Richard Whittaker, January 11, 2008, 7:45am, Newsdesk

Amidst the national names filing in Texas for the Republican presidential nomination, there are a couple of lesser-known figures, even lesser than twice-failed presidential candidate and three-time Senate also-ran Alan Keyes. Houston-based practitioner of oriental medicine Hoa Tran was the first Republican hopeful to file, but he’s been joined by physician Hugh Cort, a Christian Conservative from Alabama who proposes bombing Iran, dismantling the Internal Revenue Service, and, in his role as self-proclaimed counter-terrorism expert, claims Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Cort said he is running for president because “the Lord has given me a very important message.”