Posted on 12/12/2013 6:35:29 AM PST by thetallguy24
So Steve Stockman is running for Senate. It’s all over Twitter, it might be all over Facebook depending on what kind of friends you have, and it’s the talk of this town (if you know what I mean). Initial coverage has suggested that the stand-off — between Representative Stockman, the East Texas far-far-right conservative, and Senator John Cornyn, an incumbent whose votes have rankled some Texas tea-party activists — will be another chapter in the nigh-unending saga of tea-party insurrectionists versus the Big Bad Establishment. But it’s actually much more complicated than that.
For one thing, it’s hard to imagine the race being much of a contest. Stockman has just $32,000 cash on hand per his latest filings (and $163,000 in debt). And he’s been beleaguered by allegations of ethics violations since entering office. Plus, with the primary set for March 4, he has less than three months to pull off a statewide victory — or, at least, to win enough votes to send the race to a runoff. So his odds are, uh, less than great.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Yes the filing deadline closed Dec. 9, 2013. Primary is Mar. 4, 2014. Now they
are extending CD 36 filing to allow for candidates since Stockman removed his
filing in the last 15 minutes.
<Texan who votes.
<Texan who agrees with /johnny.
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