DeLay has withdrawn from running, per MSNBC, 9:15pmCT.

That's my...err...was my rep! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

I'll follow up with a link!

This is mixed news, if it increases the probability of a Republican winning the district.

Would you rather run against DeLay or against a new fresh face?

That's why DeLay is down in the polls. He pulled out because he knows the odds are against him. He might turn that around. But I think he's also suspecting a second indictment, federal not state.

Damn. Of all the times to be without MSNBC. :mad:

How can he do this, the primary's OVER and he won.

He's in it up to his neck, and it's getting deep! :woohoo: :woohoo:

Oooooooooooooooooooooee..........

What's the GOP gonna do for a candidate NOW? How is this even possible? He won. Does that mean they HAVE no candidate?

the repig party here? Is there any protocol? Not his damned wife, I trust!

But now that he is the primary winner I'm not sure if they can appoint someone to take his place on the ballot or not. He has already won his spot on the ballot.

Sean at agonist.com says its an automatic Dem win

Because Delay won the primary and cannot be replaced.
:shrug: :shrug:

in the 10th in 2004. What you lose is the straight-ticket voters. So, this helps Lampson, but you know the Republicans will organize around whoever they get to replace ol' Hot Tub Tom.

GOPisEvil! :hi:
So, is this good news? I'm thinking he had no choice, he's going down soon.

At the least, at the VERY LEAST, Tom Delay is out and an inexperienced Republican takes his place. However, Tom gave up some of the Republicans in his old district to make the 10th more conservative. He figured he'd always have enough of an advantage. But, I'm guessing the writing is on the wall in more ways than one. This way, if Lampson wins, he can't say he beat Delay, and the R's can claim that Lampson only beat a weak candidate.

will have to say about this.

Congrats on reaching 20,000 posts, btw. :hi:

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... only happens once in a great while. All I can say is woohoo. I'm sure their calculus is that Delay can't win, better to field someone else, but I'm not sure that is going to work. I think this is very good news for Lampson!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Juanita Jean, the hometown thorn in his side: http://www.brazosriver.com/index.html

This one's for you Susan!!!

and this is about the funniest damn thing:

You know that things aren't lookin' good when your Congressman starts being referred to as "Representative #2" by federal prosecutors. Especially when Bob Ney is #1

Up here in Ohio we're waiting for the other shoe to drop!

Bob Ney and maybe John Boehnner too!

They are ALL linked together -- soon by leg-irons we hope!

Congrats, Texas, on dropping the Hammer!

Here's to a BUG-FREE TX-22!!!


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"I can do more on the outside of the House than I can on the inside right now." - bugman

He'll be doin' a lot more from the inside of
DA BIG HOUSE!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
:patriot:

we can start worrying about Ohio!

I never thought I'd be able to turn my attention away from here!

Thanks for celebrating with us!!!!

Who-hoo!

April, 3, 2006

12 years of agony for me. OVER.

I hope that means he's going to jail!:bounce:

So

Sooooo... does that mean there WILL be a special election? Hmmmmm..................

Wow. The end of the Bugman. Never thought this day would come. Damn, and me without any alcohol in the house. :bounce:

Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months. Taking defiant swipes at "the left" and the press, he said he feels "liberated" and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government.

"I'm going to announce tomorrow that I'm not running for reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress," DeLay, who turns 59 on Saturday, said during a 90-minute interview on Monday. "I'm very much at peace with it." He notified President Bush in the afternoon. DeLay and his wife, Christine, said they had been prepared to fight, but that he decided last Wednesday, after months of prayer and contemplation, to spare his suburban Houston district the mudfest to come. "This had become a referendum on me," he said. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1179853,00.html

Funny after being exposed this last time seems as though it was the last nail being driven in his rotting casket.
He has always said he was innocent, and he did nothing wrong. Well apparently he knows that he did do something wrong and got caught, got exposed, and now he has no choice but to run for cover.

He will be gone within months! :woohoo:

I think he will try and be the next KKKarl Rove, until he can turn lobbyist. He has to wait a year before he can join that club. So, with the '06 elections right around the corner, his best bet will be a dirty trickster. Looking to destroy us "librls."

Betcha that's the reason.

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/el.toc.htm


I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me none of those provisions qualify, so there's not a way replace DeLay on the ballot. But the dude's smart enough not to leave his district without a Republican, so either I'm reading this wrong, or as babylonsister suggests, he's in really, really deep doo doo.

:thumbsup: But now find out if he STEPS DOWN is there a special election?

Looks like to me he is vying for Karl Rove's role.


"I'm a realist. I've been around awhile. I can evaluate political situations," DeLay told TIME at his kitchen table in Sugar Land, a former sugar plantation in suburban Houston. Bluebonnets are blooming along the highways. "I feel that I could have won the race. I just felt like I didn't want to risk the seat and that I can do more on the outside of the House than I can on the inside right now. I want to continue to fight for the conservative cause. I want to continue to work for a Republican majority."

any longer a resident of the state!

DeLay said he is likely to leave by the end of May, depending on the Congressional schedule and finishing his work on a couple of issues. He said he will change his legal residence to his condominium in Alexandria, Va., from his modest two-story home on a golf course here in the 22nd District of Texas. "I become ineligible to run for election if I'm not a resident of the state of Texas," he said, turning election law to his purposes for perhaps on last time. State Republican officials will then be able to name another Republican candidate to face Democrat Nick Lampson, a former House members who lost his seat in a redistricting engineered by DeLay.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,1179853,00.html

"My prayer was basically: 'Let people see Christ through me. And let me smile.' Now, when they took the shot, from my side, I thought it was fakiest smile I'd ever given. But through the camera, it was glowing. I mean, it had the right impact. Poor old left couldn't use it at all."

Sure Bugboy we here on the left couldn't possibly use your mugshot. Whatever!