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Related: About this forumEx-Army nurse, Tyler Democrat challenges Gohmert
A nurse, teacher and retired soldier will challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert in the November general election.
All three are the same Democrat Shirley McKellar of Tyler.
Ive been preparing for this office for 44 years I just did not know it, McKellar said, tallying her years in health care that include 17 years as an Army nurse, supplemented by 20 years owning Kid Creations, an early childhood education center in Tyler.
McKellar, 64, also has volunteered in political campaigns since she was 18 and hosts a radio talk show at 12:15 p.m. Thursdays on AM 1330, where guests discuss topics from immigration to the Keystone XL Pipeline.
http://www.news-journal.com/news/local/ex-army-nurse-tyler-democrat-challenges-gohmert/article_b6b28c13-49d1-5545-a235-cf2405fda481.html
[font color=green]Please vote for Shirley so that we can take out the trash.[/font]
tech3149
(4,452 posts)They may soon have ice for their cocktails in Hades. I'm gonna have to let Juanita Jean know about this!
sonias
(18,063 posts)Louie Gohmert is batshit crazy.
Comments on "terror baby" plots
On August 12, 2010, Gohmert appeared on Anderson Cooper 360° to defend recent comments he made on the floor of the House regarding "terror babies". Initially, Gohmert had claimed (in a speech made on the House floor in June 2010) that an ex-FBI agent had told him about "terror baby" plots. On Fox Business News, Gohmert had later claimed that an airline passenger with a relative in Hamas had a grandchild who was to be intentionally born in the United States.[15] In the interview, Gohmert asserted that pregnant women from the Middle East are traveling to the US on tourist visas, planning to deliver the child there. According to the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, this automatically grants citizenship to the child. Gohmert asserted that the child would then be returned to the mother's home country and be submitted to a life of terrorist training. When repeatedly asked by the host for any evidence of this, Gohmert did not provide substantiation for either the ex-FBI agent story or the airline passenger story, but gave a description of a Washington Post article,[16] which described so-called "birth tourism" packages, mainly directed at Chinese tourists. These packages (one was described in the article for $14,750) were described by Gohmert as a "gaping hole in the security of our country". When asked several times by Cooper for the connection and any corroborating evidence, Gohmert responded "If you don't think this is evidence, you have to believe that the terrorists are more stupid than these enterprising people". The Daily Show later parodied this incident.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Texans have got their work cut out, to gain its independence from the GOP, the party of the past and all things regressive. Go for it!
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,321 posts)There wasn't any mention of a Web site or how to make online donations. I'll try to check on this periodically to see if anything is announced.