I'm sure, though, that DeLay isn't going to support Steve Stockman. I wonder who they can drag out with enough money and name recognition to be a serious threat in November.

exterminated from the house.

Lampson has tons of dough, but without a corrupt Republican to run against, not sure any Dem can win the TX-22.

Wonder who DeLay will choose as his successor. Pointing out that he ran int eh primary, and then dropped out alter would point out to voters that he subverted the Demcoratic process in order to handpick his successor, instead of letting the voters decide.

But good riddence. Losing DeLay will hurt Republicans, and help America, much more than any single House seat ever could.

I'd rather he stay in and lose. He's an asshole. Chris Matthew's sounds like a right-wing dittohead....oh wait. I wish someone would tell Scarborough to shut up. Yup, McKinney is a racist/bad congressman, but he treats DeLay like god, while McKinney is trash. Hypocritical.

This is bad news but not surprising.  It can't be fun to be a regular House member after having been the powerful Maj Ldr.

Lampson's job just became much tougher.

This is a win.  Period.  A win for the country most of all.  Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead.

Tom Delay (R-Abramoff) bows out.  I must remind myself that schadenfreud is a bad thing.  But not as bad as a hired killer headed for the crossbar motel.

AP story says Delay will resign in May or June, necessitating a special election which will allow for a Republican candidate to run on equal footing with Lampson.

So Lampson is not a sure in but Delay is a very sure out.  This is a HUGE victory against corruption, petty little dictators, the Rethugs, and a real ***hole.

Kudos to Chris Bell.  He deserves serious support in his race simply on the basis of successfully taking down Delay when no one else had the guts or the imagination to do so.

 

I thought that Delay (R-Abramoff) controversial Texas redistricting placed Texas-22 into a republican vulnerable position.  Delay, falling victim to his own hubris, gerrymandered TX to protect others.  The Hammer was bulletproof and needed no such 'safe seat.'  Hammer, meet nail.

He didn't "literally" cut and run, Chris.
He "figuratively" cut and run.

Chris, where are you getting the information that DeLay can be replaced?  Common sense seems to tell me that where there is a will, there is a way...but my (obviously unexpert) reading of the TX election law seems to indicate that DeLay can't be replaced. Can you point me to different information?

Perhaps I'm reading the wrong section or not reading  or applying the proper definition but:

145.035 provides for died, ineligible, or withdrawn candidates to take their name off the ballot

145.036(a) provides that political parties can fill a vacancy in nomination for a candidate who dies or is ineligible

145.036(b) provides that an executive committee make a replacement nomination for a candidate who withdraws ONLY if one of three conditions is met:
The candidate must withdraw because of a catastrophic illness diagnosed within two months of the primary
OR
"no political party that held primary elections has a nominee for the office sought" by DeLay
OR
the candidate has been elected, appointed to, or become the nominee for another elective office.

Chris, can you help address where you read that the above section isn't applicable to this? I imagine TX election code is entirely complex and it's entirely possible I'm missing a huge disclaimer but what I found seems to be controlling authority and, if so, seems to spell out pretty clearly there can't be a replacement. What am I missing?

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Posted by
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

because in a district this red we could have only held it for one term anyway

Sort of like how Matheson, Chet Edwards and Earl Pomeroy are all one-termers?

....and 'cuz the Democrats were never going to run a top tier candidate against him, even if the whole district turned Democrat.

Still, that smiling mug shot is going to come back to haunt the right.