Yes. This part of the movie is true. The Charlie Wilson biography reveals that when Charlie was thirteen and living in Trinity, Texas, his dog Teddy got into the neighbor’s yard. The neighbor, city official Charles Hazard, retaliated by mixing crushed glass into the dog’s food. Teddy died from internal bleeding. To make Mr. Hazard pay for this grossly inhumane act, Charlie decided to run for office against him in the next election. Charlie won by driving 96 voters from poor neighborhoods to the polls (he had his driver’s permit because he was a farmer’s son). Before they left the car, Charlie told them what Mr. Hazard had done to his dog Teddy. Charlie landed the victory by a margin of only sixteen votes. -History Channel, The True Story of Charlie Wilson How did a liberal Democrat like Charlie Wilson ever get elected in conservative Texas? A couple factors may have significantly contributed to Democrat Charlie Wilson winning his seat in Congress in 1973. The most important being that