Posted on 08/08/2006 11:57:22 AM PDT by SolidSupplySide
Got any names that will now attempt to make the Write In Candidate list?.... Reckon the primary challengers will try?
How is it official from an anonymous source quoted by the AP???
Official....
Not quite based upon an unnamed source..... but highly likely.
Official will be when DeLay asked his name be withdrawn from the ballot.
Delay should RUN, WIN, and then DEMAND his leadership seat back.
I guess because they are more right than they are wrong?
My understanding of Texas law says that noone running for another race can become a write-in unless they "withdraw" from the other race. That means it is unlikely that anyone already on the November ballot will be the write in candidate.
David Wallace, mayor of Sugar Land, is the most likely candidate. But Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (Houston city council) fits the category of not running for office in November, too.
Sad, this is definately a case of disinfranchising the voters. How can we expect people attending public schools to "write" in a candidate???
I hope each and every voter in that district writes in TOM DELAY on their ballot and re-elects the man whether he likes it or not!
Let Ronnie Earle and the rest of the 'Rats shriek!
Why is it if Republicans fought to keep the Democrats from fielding a candidate when another bowed out they'd be accused of trying to "disenfranchise voters" and of "trying to keep voters from having a choice on election day?" But Dems. do it and its considered clever.
Delay is a pussy. He should run and win to prove he still has his mojo. I guess all that lobbying money waiting for him is more important than keeping congress in republican hands. Another conservative sell out.
Anyone with the last name of BUSH available?
If you say so.
I'll believe it when the source is acutally on the record. I think this is wishful thinking on the part of the author.
If Delay felt he had any chance of winning, he wouldn't have tried to get his name off the ballot in the first place.
This is for the best - if he had run - the noble and charismatic Ronnie Earle would have managed to have him in court before Election Day.
As soon as the election is over, the Pubs need to deep six their pact to remove "indicted" congressman from power. It is WAY to easy to get an indictment.
What were they thinking - never crossed their minds the dims would find a Ronnie to gin up some charges? Notice the dims don't have the same pact. I'm not even sure they remove their people from power for a conviction.
Can we find someone with the name John Smith to make the write-in easier?
a 'Republican strategist'? This could be anyone from Tucker Carlson to some kid who serves Orange Julius at the mall.
The Dismalcrap Party ploy to keep Delay on the ballot is just as fricken bad as the GayAmerican Governor waiting until November to resign so they could hand pick his fricken replacement. Is there no depth to which these sleazy vermin will not sink?
I would have voted for Delay just so he could step aside and the GoodLookingGovernor appoint a replacement. The bas***ds.
(better now)
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