Cross Dressing in a Texas Republican Runoff

The Houston Chronicle ^

[ConservativeDude]

Cross-dressing heats up Texas Republican race Reuters News Service

DALLAS - What started as a dull runoff race to field a Republican candidate for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives has heated up due to a controversy over cross-dressing.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday photographs of candidate Sam Walls dressed in women's clothes have circulated among political leaders in Johnson County, south of Fort Worth. Local Republican leaders confirmed separately that they had seen the photographs of Walls in a wig, dress and high heels.

Walls, who has the endorsement of several leading Republicans in the state and was expected to win the run-off, was not available for comment. He said in comments printed in the Star-Telegram that he will not drop out of the race due to a campaign of blackmail.

"Through intermediaries, my opponent told me to drop out of the campaign or the private information would be released," Walls told the paper. "Now my opponent is using the information in an attempt to intimate that I am a homosexual, which I am not."

Walls, 64, who describes himself as a fervent Baptist, told the paper his family had "dealt with" the issue of his cross-dressing and that he asked for forgiveness.

The opponent in question is Rob Orr and his campaign officials said they have not distributed the photos.

Jeff Judd, the county chairman of the Republican party, said it was too late for Walls to drop out of the April 13 runoff.

"It would have been much better judgment for him not to have run," he said.

[Paleo Conservative]

Perhaps he was looking forward to DemocRAT crossover votes in the general election?

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[BibChr]

You know... there are sins you look at, and say, "I can see being tempted by that, to my discredit."

And then there's this.

/c8|

Dan

[ConservativeDude]

this is very well put....i had a similar thought, though just not quite as well formulated.

[jtminton]

You know... there are sins you look at, and say, "I can see being tempted by that, to my discredit."

And then there's this.

I was discussing that very thing with my wife last night. We live in Cleburne, so this is pretty big news around here.

[BibChr]

I should hasten to say that I mean by this no more than what I said. I just don't understand that particular temptation.

But God help me, I do understand temptation; and I've no doubt that, if others could have seen temptations passing through my own heart over the years, they would be repulsed and not always able to relate either. (For that matter, *I* am repulsed at temptations that have passed through my own heart!)

Thank God (A) that only He sees the heart (1 Samuel 16:7), and (B) for the blood of Jesus Christ, which cleanses His own from all their sins (1 John 1:7, 9).

Dan

[BibChr]

...and (C) that in Christ, sin is no longer Lord and Master, carrying out temptation is not compulsory, and doing God's will is new-natural (Romans 6).

[SwinneySwitch]

"Walls, 64, who describes himself as a fervent Baptist..."

Sounds more like a fervent Transvestite!

[Solamente]

When I was a kid in early '60s Brooklyn, the cops would cart a cross-dresser off to a mental institution.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Another graduate from the J Edgar Hoover School of Fashion, no doubt.

[Core_Conservative]

shoot - I'll probably get slammed for this, but if he dresses in womans clothing, that would mean that women wearing mens clothing are also crossdressers. You can't have it both ways. (ducking for the mud slinging back at me)

[babaloo999]

Hey, sometimes a guy just likes to feel "pretty", even a "fervent Baptist".

[Paleo Conservative]

You can't have it both ways.

But it sounds like Walls might.

[Paleo Conservative]

When I was a kid in early '60s Brooklyn, the cops would cart a cross-dresser off to a mental institution.

Now they would cart off the cop to a shrink if he even made a comment about cross-dressers.

[Xenalyte]

Oops. I'm in pants that match my jacket, with a cute shirt under the jacket. Am I in menswear?

[Core_Conservative]

Probably - but you do look great in your Xena costume...

[Xenalyte]

Why, thanks. :) After five days of flu, I'm almost skinny enough to do it justice again!

[ConservativeDude]

good post. all in agreement.