Posted on 08/21/2006 1:17:13 PM PDT by weegee
SUGAR LAND — Mayor David Wallace will not run as a write-in Republican candidate for the congressional seat vacated by Tom DeLay.
Wallace announced his decision about the Congressional District 22 race today at a news conference at Sugar Land City Hall.
The decision comes after Republican party leaders from Fort Bend, Harris, Galveston and Brazoria counties selected Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as the party's choice to run in the November election as a write-in candidate.
No Republican will appear on the ballot because DeLay stepped down after winning the nomination in March. A court ruled the party could not replace him on the ballot.
The only candidates on the ballot will be Democrat Nick Lampson and Libertarian Bob Smither.
Wallace has been planning this race for years and DeLay knew it. Wallace is a back stabber who took out the Mayor who got him appointed to his first council position. Wallace has money and is backed by mostly under the radar politicians centered in his church.
He does little for Sugar Land, and lets the council do whatever it wants then jumps in front to look like the leader. Only a good council has moved us forward. Wallace spends all his time on national issues to prepare for that Congressional seat he wants so badly.
WOW that's more then I've typed using caps and punctuation in some time! ;-0
I suspect it's all about money. He's got so much left in his coffer for a legal defense fund....he didn't won't to use it to campaign against Lamp...now is that a rumor or is that really the truth?
I've heard conflicting answers as to whether he can use that money for legal defense. There are those who say he would have to establish a legal defense fund with separate contributions.
I'm glad I'm only a bystander and not that active in politics any longer. What crappy stuff...yuk
Post 21, may have answered that question for me...
Some say it's actually part of a prosecution deal. Dick DeGuerin is a phenomenal attorney. (Who else could get probation for someone who admitted shooting someone and then cutting them in little peices to destroy the evidence)
However "The impossible can be done but miracles are harder."
If he came to Tom and told him he was goin down but he had a deal worked out... that's about the only thing a lot of people can think.
I'm just tired of it now though and I am caring less everyday (not in the big pessimist sense just in the get finished with this current mess sense). It sucks all the air out of every political room.
WHAT A TAR BABY!!!
I will help Shelley all I can but in the end ...
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but I hope Tom DeLay clears his name and then runs for president. I'll be the first in line to work for him
Ping.
Of course, it doesn't change my impression of the race, but perhaps it gives Sekula-Gibbs perhaps a tiny, tiny more of a chance.
I suspect Wallace realized that pissing off the Harris County GOP when they control the most voters in the CD, not to mention even more of the GOP population was not too smart if he intended on running in 2008.
After reading the dirt on Wallace, your assessment makes a lot of sense. It appears Wallace is a vulture that looks for situations to exploit for personal profit. Hopefully he will not profit from the CD-22 mess.
He lost interest when Boehner was elected to replace him.
Tom DeLay could not go back to the House as a little fish in a big pond.
Ego, IOW.
Thanks but as I said, it's my dad's idea.
I stopped my wild political activity....but if Delay runs for president...I'd become very active again....Delay did so much for the conservatives in this country...I'd love to see him run for president... ;o) And I'd work my ***A*** off to help him get elected...
Good news for Sekula-Gibbs. At least this makes the race Lean Dem instead of Likely Dem.
If the dimwits are that stupid...they forget that Republicans aren't a bunch of dummies as the dimwit voters are....that bunch have mush brains...go to any of their web sites and see the conspiracy theories they buy into...LOL
All they have to do is find someone named Shely Gibbs and the counting of write-in votes will be a disaster.
They could even find someone to change their name prior to the filing deadline.
Don't put it past them. Didn't they do something along this line (maybe in a primary?).
All they need to do is confuse the voters or at least the counting process.
If that's the only way the dimwits can win an election...that party is dead...with all the stink that goes with the dead....
Delay will never be nominated for President. After this screwing the GOP he will never be elected to any office. What a fricking bonehead.
DeLay and Wallace are buddies. DeLay gave Wallace a heads-up that he was resigning in April so that Wallace could be the first to announce his intent to replace DeLay.
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