We have a 3-way congressional race going for congress. Kevin Brady voted for the bailout...I didn’t vote for him. I would love if he gets beat but I doubt it. Both challengers are his neighbors in Conroe.
The piney woods of SE Texas got screwed with the Tom DeLay redistricting of 2000. We lost all of our congresscritters to the population centers of Houston, etc. They don’t have the pineywoods at heart in their agendas, imo.
Well, at least TD’s redistricting got rid of Jack Brooks (Or allowed us to get rid of him). Several other lib dims too.
Of course we replaced Brooks with Ron Paul so WTF?
We were saved by Tom DeLay!
Our congressmen before re-districting were: Jack Brooks, Charlie Wilson, and Jim Turner. Brady is the first Repub we've had but he has been there too long and now only thinks about his seat on the House Ways and Means committee. He is in his 14th year of what he promised would be self-imposed term limit of 12 years of "service."
I think Ted Poe has been better than anybody Beaumont voters have elected. The last elected Dem from Beaumont, whose name escapes me, who ran for and won DeLay's seat, was a home healthcare Medicare cheat.
I think re-districting has served us well. The Golden Triangle voters are, IMO, a bunch of idiots and our Piney Woods bunch aren't much better...but we do vote Repub in state and fed elections. Would you believe Repubs control 19 of 20 precincts in our county?