Sekula Gibbs to try again for Congress

From MySA.com (San Antonio Express-News)

Shelley Sekula Gibbs, the Houston dermatologist who briefly succeeded former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in Congress last year, is moving ahead in her quest to regain the seat in 2008 by announcing some well-known local Republican support.

Sekula Gibbs, a former Houston City Council member, was elected to finish the last 51 days of DeLay's term last year before yielding to Democrat Nick Lampson, who defeated her for a full term.

Her 51 days as interim congresswoman were rocky, however, with seven DeLay staffers walking out in her first week, complaining publicly that she had been a tyrannical boss. She also prompted chuckles in The Washington Post and other national publications by telling reporters she planned to resolve such thorny issues as tax cuts, immigration reform and the Iraq war — all in less than three weeks of a lame-duck Congress.

Sekula Gibbs has changed the spelling of her name since then, dropping the hyphen that she feared would become a problem during her write-in campaign for the congressional seat in 2006.

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