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TX-22: National GOP Not Investing In Race For DeLay Seat
The NRCC isn't investing any serious money in the race for Tom DeLay's seat between Dem Nick Lampson and GOP write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. "National Republicans were supposed to invest $3 million to $4 million to help Sekula-Gibbs," reports the Associated Press. "So far, however, she's received just $134,000 from the National Republican Congressional Committee." Lampson had $2.2 million as of June 30th. Meanwhile, other GOP House candidates are swimming in cash: The NRCC yesterday dumped a staggering $9.3 million into a bunch of other races. Reader DK, guestblogging over at TPM, has the breakdown of NRCC spending here.
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They don't need to pour a lot of money into TX-22, they have electronic voting. And I suspect the machines will have a spell check so no one misspells what's her name's name.
October 14, 2006 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Republicans couldn't bear to devote a lot of resources to supporting a woman candidate with a hyphenated surname. That's way too progressive for those regressives....
Is it 2008 yet?
October 14, 2006 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not only a hyphenated surname, but she was elected to city council in Houston using her late husband's surname - Rodriquez. Shelly was married previously to Sylvan Rodriquez, a popular (and obviously hispanic) newscaster whom died from cancer a couple of years ago. Some mild controversy over a caucasian blonde using the hispanic surname to help get elected. She dropped Rodriquez for the next election after her husband died, when she went for an at-large seat on city council. I have many other comments about her, but will restrain myself. . . .
Marc
October 14, 2006 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
This has been a fairly quiet race so far here. There's plenty of mailings and yard signs for Gibbs around, way more than I've seen for Lampson. (I live in the Clear Lake area of TX22.) However, I have seen a few Lampson commercials on television, and none for Sexual-Gibbs. I would expect to see more action in the next week from both of them, I guess.
I will add this: I work in a fairly conservative industry, and you can sense the mood has soured on the Iraq war. You'll still find a Freeper here and there, but I've noticed the the social and religious conservatives have been somewhat quiet whenever discussions go political. They'll need some real energizing to go out and vote in a couple weeks; that's the feeling that I get right now.
October 15, 2006 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink