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By Erick Posted in Nick Lampson | Pete Olson | Targets | TX-22 — Comments (2) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Bob Novak has an article this morning on the Blue Dogs. One of them is Nick Lampson, running against RedState endorsed Pete Olson.
The one dissenter on the Colombian free trade vote and the one absent Congressman on the Iraqi troop withdrawal was the same person: Rep. Nick Lampson (D-Tex.). Paradoxically, he is arguably the most liberal of the selected l0 Blue Dogs as reflected during five previous terms representing the Beaumont area. He was wiped out in the 2004 election following the Texas redistricting engineered by former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). Lampson filed as a candidate in DeLay’s Houston-area district and campaigned as a moderate in this Republican territory. Lampson was elected when DeLay was indicted by a politicized district attorney.
Lampson, proving he is more political than ideological, has all of a sudden become quite conservative, being one of the least reliable votes for Pelosi.
That, of course, cannot cover up for years of being a party line toeing liberal and for voting for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. In 2006, Lampson only won with 52% of the vote in a disaster of an election for Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, who RedState helped toss out in the primary.
The district went for Bush with 64% in 2004. This is a very middle class to upper middle class district that is ripe for the GOP to take it back. The Cook Partisan Voting Index puts it at R +15.
Lampson is probably the most vulnerable of the Democrats in the House. HIs opponent, Pete Olson, is a veteran and he is backed by Phil Freakin' Gramm. He'll be a dependable conservative vote.
Folks, we can beat Nick Lampson pretty damn easily, but we need to cough up some change for Pete Olson to get this seat back. It may be one of the only seats we do get back, so let's make it count.
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I am going to write some checks once I get my income tax rebate.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
is 'lovingly' referred to as "Dim Nick". He took the seat that Stockman won from Jack "what's in it for me" Brooks. Nick won the seat by getting enough funding from the DNC to basically buy up ALL the air time on the radio stations in the district. After the redistricting, Dim Nick was out of work until the DA in Austin trumped up the charges against Delay and he stepped down. Nick again won by buying up ALL the air time and the confusion of who would run against him. All the GOP had to offer was Shelly "I'm for/against/for/against/etc. illegal immigration" Sekula-Gibbs. Her campaign was so disjointed that in order to vote for her the folks at the polls had to vote once AND write in her name. I think she only served a few weeks of Delays unexpired term. But even with that, as conservative as this district is, I'm amazed that Dim Nick managed to win there at all. Guess it took someone as inept as Shelly to make Dim Nick look like a competent campaigner.
Lost in Texas............