Posted on 11/16/2006 10:55:16 AM PST by TexKat
HOUSTON (AP) - Caretaker Congresswoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs didn't take long to make an impression in Washington -- and it wasn't a good one.
Sekula-Gibbs was elected to serve out the last seven weeks of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's term.
But she somehow prompted nearly the entire staff of the 22nd Congressional District office to walk out on her.
Seven employees, who were hired under DeLay's time in office, walked out Tuesday. A former DeLay spokesman complained that the new congresswoman had treated them "terribly."
Sekula-Gibbs has raised a few eyebrows on Capitol Hill in her first three days in office. First, she expressed surprise and disappointment that neither President Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney stopped by to visit during her office's "open house" Tuesday.
She's also prompted chuckles in the media by telling reporters she looked forward to helping resolve such thorny issues as tax cuts, immigration reform and the Iraq war -- all in less than two weeks of a lame-duck Congress.
The aides' departure left her with a Washington staff of two former Houston City Council aides, an intern on loan from North Texas Congressman Michael Burgess, and a congressional aide.
They should have already found new jobs. What has been the point of them being there anyway? Has DeLay been there? NO Has any business been conducted there since he resigned? NO.
And it seems that picking someone because they were on the special election actually hurt, as people thought they had already VOTED for her and didn't write her name in.
Actually, that's some information I'd like to see -- how many ballots voted for her in the special election, and then didn't vote for ANYBODY in the general election.
If I were an activist judge doing recounts, I would rule that anybody who voted for her in the special and didn't vote in the general meant to keep her for the full term.
My bad, she's a write in filling DELAY's seven weeks. No special election.
If the shoe fits.
She's obviously difficult to work for, but IMHO, I think the staffers should have just sucked it up for a few weeks. I mean, my gosh, how much bad press to republicans need. This was unnecessary.
Face it - a lot of people are as dumb as rocks. They have no problem using machines to make lotto picks or to play video slot machines at Indian casinos... but when it comes to voting? Wow, that's HARD!
Fits with the hyphenated name.
She sounds like a real nitwit. She'll only be on the job for 51 days of a lameduck Congress and she thinks she's going to change the world? She expected the President and Vice President of the United States to stop by her open house on Tuesday? Is this woman for real? She's probably going to play up her "Congressperson" role (all 51 days of it) on her resume, big-time. She must be a dolt.
I work in a hospital,we treat episodes like that as free entertainment. Security has to come in to send everyone back to their work.
You're an idiot! She is nothing like how she is being portrayed. She is absolutely nothing like that inbred,ignorant piece of shit, Sheila Lee. Shelly is a real conservative and I dont think we've heard the " real " reason for the staff leaving.
Practice?
Hmmm..... vindication?
yeah, we had a stuning host of candidates running in open seats this year. thus, the results. And why would this nutcase want to fire the only people in D.C. who know anything about the place if she is only going to be in office for two freaking weeks!!?!?!
Oh, come on now, cut her a little slack. It may have been "Her time of the month"/s
What is so completely perplexing is that Sekula-Gibbs has no history of this kind of behavior that I'm aware of during the time she has served on the Houston City Council. The Houston Chronicle, our local newspaper, is a liberal rag and would have blasted her mercilessly, or any other conservative, for this kind of conduct in the past.
Well put. Life is good when you get paid for doing nothing. I would be curious if they had performed any meaningful work since DeLay was gone.
Which itself is dumb as rocks. Lotteries are a tax on people who didn't do well in high school math.
This hardly sounds like a hit job... who does a "hit job" on someone who will be on the job for 8 days? Sure, it means she won't be back in 2008, but is that a bad thing?
only made one comment, and it wasn't about her name, just a lame attempt at rewriting the words to I Am Woman...
The popular mayor of Sugarland wanted to run and could have won, but the feckless Texas GOP decided in its wisdom to run a woman with no personality and a difficult name as a write-in candidate. They don't call it "the Stupid Party" for nothing.
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