Posted on 12/09/2013 8:21:16 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Maybe, but Stockman publicly used the two magic words: IMPEACH OBAMA !
Stockman’s primary opponent in the last election, Stephen Takach, is a very good conservative Christian. Should Takach run again, he will easily beat any Democrat in the District.
Stockman is my Congressman, and I would have been very satisfied with Takach. Stockman was very aggressive in his campaign and it was Takach’s first political contest.
Substantively, there was little difference between the two.
Then I hope he makes this the centerpiece of his campaign. Not the best messenger, but maybe he can get the ball rolling.
Is Takach running?
Stockman will get Michael Berry’s endorsement; that will be enough.
You say he is no Ted Cruz? Well, who else is?
How would I know? Stockman just announced he going for the Senate seat today.
White is Black and is a very popular conservative Republican elected by whites and represents James Byrd, Jr's hometown. Black preachers are not happy, happy, happy.
Steve is 57 and will be 63/64 when his first Senate term is up. That would give him two years to raise money and Campaign to run for POTUS.
Stockman beat his Democrat opponent 71-27%; so the Republican nominee will keep the district safely in the GOP.
Also, Stockman refused to vote for John Boehner as Speaker of the House. What else does a conservative Texan need to know about him?
” - - - Should Takach run again, he will easily beat any Democrat in the District.
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Sounds like a made-to-order Write-In Campaign to me!
May we call you “Head Writer?”
Was today the last day to file for the election?
Where do you live?
For the time being, I live in Jasper Co.
Surprise. It was the last day of filing. Cornyn doesn’t get off without a serious challenger after all.
I’m sure it set off a mad scramble for Stockman’s safe house seat. Poltics1 lists 6 Republican candidates. And the only rat is the 2012 Libertarian nominee.
Steve Stockman is for real. I haven't followed his political career as closely as I probably should have but still in all, I don't recall ever hearing a discouraging word about him...from anyone that matters. He is my congresscritter; for the second time. The first being some years ago before the union thugs in Jefferson County(where I lived at the time) "fixed" their machines to more accurately reflect the views of the union label. Many things have happened since then; not the least of which was redrawing congressional districts. For now at least, Jefferson County's voting machine shenanigans aren't enough to foil the larger conservative demographic drawn into that district. Which BTW, no longer includes Stockman's district. Breaks my heart, truly... ;^)
Good man, Stockman. Bob
Would someone please tell me why Stockdale is here? Were he still alive, I am sure he wouldn’t know why either! Bob
He can run as a write-in, but his name won’t appear on the primary ballot. Good thing his surname is White and not “Sekula-Gibbs.”
From the article:
“Because Stockman filed so late, there arent any especially prominent East Texas Republicans running to fill his congressional seat, in southeast Texass 36th congressional district. As of 3:56 p.m., only Phil Fitzgerald, a former judge, and John Amdur (the address listed is a Houston P.O. box) have also filed to run for his seat. The surprising move has irked many Texas Republican insiders: One Austin consultant tells National Review Online that he believes Stockman went out of his way to keep his intentions secret from James White, a state representative from the district who probably would have run to fill the seat if he had known about Stockmans statewide ambitions.
White may just wait for 2016: No doubt about it, James White will run next year, the consultant says.
Its a disappointment, he adds, noting that a victorious White would be the only African-American Republican in the House (Tim Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2013 and Allen West lost his reelection in 2012).”
Sounds like Stockman is like school on Saturday: no class. Keeping his decision not to run reelection secret so that those who ran against him in the 2012 primary and other area Republicans missed the filing deadline, leaving only some unknown guy and a county judge indicted for fraud as the only two Republicans on the ballot? Stockman is one of the rare non-Paulbot who is strongly supported by the Paulistinians—I guess that he’s a fellow traveler of the cult—and this sounds like a Paulistinian tactic to make a Paulbot the default GOP nominee (like what happened with Bentivolio in MI-11 last year).
BTW, while I can understand that Stockman prefered to keep his Senate ambitions secret until the last minute, he could have announced a week ago that he was forgoing reelection so as to allow interested Republicans to file and thus give Republican voters a choice.
So what will happen now? If the filing deadline is final and filing can’t be reopened, I expect that there will be several write-in candidacies. Hopefully the method for writing in a candidate in the primary is less burdensome than it was in TX-22 in 2006 when Tom DeLay dropped out and the GOP was not allowed to replace him in the general-election ballot, so Republicans who wanted to stop RAT Nick Lampson (ironically, the man who defeated Steve Stockman in his 1996 reelection effort) from winning by default had to write in “Shelley Sekula-Gibbs” by spelling out her name on some sort of wheel contraption, and she fell far short.
With several write-in candidates, there likely will be a run-off for the GOP nomination (the indicted judge and the unknown guy would be unlikely to get the 50%+1 needed to win the primary outright), and the top-two finishers would have their names on the ballot for the run-off. Hopefully at least one of the write-ins makes the run-off and Republicans in the district get a real choice.
So, will Representative James White run as a write-in? The consultant’s statement that “no doubt he will run next year” was interpreted by the author of the article to mean that White would wait until 2016 and challenge whoever wins this time, but that diesn’t make sense, since “next year” isn’t 2016, it’s 2014. I think that James White will run as a write-in, with his easy-to-spell name being a plus (or at least not a liability). Others will run as well, and White will have to finish in the top two in the first round and then win the run-off. Tough but doable; so there’s still a chance that there will be a black conservative Republican representing SE Texas in Congress.
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