Posted on 02/27/2010 8:44:16 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The Big Enchilada!
That's how a spokesman for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee described the endorsement that came the Democratic congresswoman's way Saturday afternoon. No, it wasn't from a senator or labor union, as important as those endorsements may be to the incumbent from the 18th Congressional district. This one, it turns out, was the biggest enchilada.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a tireless champion for Houston's working families, President Barack Obama said in a statement released by the Jackson Lee campaign. That's why we need her back in Congress to help my efforts to bring real jobs back to Houston and the nation.
What must make the president's words especially galling to Jackson Lee's challengers, City Council member Jarvis Johnson and local lawyer Sean Roberts, is that they challenged Jackson Lee in the first place in part because of her steadfast support of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential race.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Actually in this case, it isn't.
The GOP never front anyone against SJL, her district is so freaking odd that it guarantees that she wins, simply by the people who vote a straight democratic ticket. Look at her numbers, she's kept there because the few of us in her district that vote, have no-one to vote for.
(sigh)
Obama is certainly the biggest something.. wouldn’t say “enchilada’” though.
Did they move Clear Lake (NASA) into Jackass-Lee’s district? I know they did some shuffling around while I was away, but I didn’t know they had extended Shiela’s reach all the way down to that part of town.
There is Black Male Democrat running against her in the primary. ...Houston Council Member Jarvis Johnson
I'm sure he's just as liberal, just not as stupid or arrogant.
Let the Obama curse continue to plague every Democrat candidate throughout the land.
I read it a few months ago on Politico. She was fired up about keeping JSC happy (even a broken clock is right twice a day.)
I’m in Dist 18...and voting as a Democrat...have to defeat her FIRST in her own party...
I’m voting for Jarvis Johnson
Come Novemeber...voting for the Republican in D18
Someone has just discovered that the district is now majority Hispanic. This year or in 2012 she will be replaced with an Hispanic unless she is saved by this census and redistricting.
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