And it's either Quorum Report or me. (God, please don't let it be me)
We just got the 'Hot Buzz' that Rep. Ray Allen is going to resign tomorrow. But, we posted that after we called him on November 8, 2005. WTF?
WHEW! Neither of us were smoking crack. We did talk to him back in November and it is the same Rep. Ray Allen. He told us back in November that he was going to resign. QR didn't make that clear that he was not going to finish out his term. So, another special election before the special session? Bizarro. And yes, we heard the rumor, too.
I agree with wizard, Allen nearly lost to a D in 2004, like Baxter did, and they have some warped ass strategy whereby they have special elections, thinking they'll help out their Republican successor. I'd just say that it backfired for Baxter/Bentzin, let's see what Hubener can do. Either that or Allen's gal pal got knocked up. We'll have to wait and see.
I think their self esteem (powered by intelligent design) is so low that they have to give themselves "political welfare" so their hand-picked pets (I mean candidates) can run as incumbents.
It's their MO -- sooner or later the sleeping giants will awake from their apathy -- AND VOTE!
Sorry PD. Better buy a case of White Zin to keep you going through the next special election.
White Zin? No way. I'm on to the hard stuff by now.
I was the one who talked to Ray Allen back in November, and he talked about finishing out his term. Rumors are another thing.
As for crack.. you'll just have to tell the story about our little scene on South Congress before we went into the party the other night. Except it would make me look as naive as I am.
Kiss kiss.
Good riddence to Rep Allen. The only real question is which lobby team is going to turn him out as their ho?
It seems like Bentzin is silent. We'll see if he has the chutzpah for this whole politics thing. If the Rs strategy is to allow the media to focus on their hand picked candidates one at a time, they are really screwed. The anti government, stick it to the little people, intolerant approach works much better when clouded and confused.
since when is 52.5 percent of the vote "barely winning"? that's a solid vote for that district. Baxter "barely" won. I have doubts that a D will get that seat. Allen won that election by a good 2,000 votes. that's plenty.
Yeah, but you got to look at who's going to turn out. If D's could turn out 60% against Bentzin in HD 48, and Hubener has name ID in that district, who's to say she can't pull an upset? She may not, but anything within 5 points is manageable.
since when is 52.5 percent of the vote "barely winning"?
When everyone else in your party is averaging 56.4% in the district, that's when. Allen underperformed significantly in 2004.
Perry's going to try and fill the seat before the primaries, like he did with Bentzin.
Just bizarre -- I never thought resigning and having special elections was a viable statewide campaign strategy for the Republicans. I thought they all had this huge majority and were proud and shit.