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Posted: Mon Feb 4th, 2008 09:27 am |
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The Texas 22nd Congressional district election, 2006 attracted considerable attention for its rare happenings. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a prominent member of the Republican Party resigned in 2006 after being indicted and subsequently winning the Republican primary. As per the Texan Law, Republicans, in order to hold onto the seat, needed to win a write-in campaign, something that has only been done four other times in the history of U.S. Congressional elections. In 2006, there were actually two elections held in the district on November 7: a special election to fill DeLay's vacant seat which expired in January 2007, and a general election which was for a two-year term starting in January 2007. In the Special Election, Sekula-Gibbs won with approximately 63 percent of the vote and was sworn in as a Member of Congress on November 13, 2006. In the general election there were three main candidates. Democrat and former US Representative Nick Lampson, Libertarian Party candidate Bob Smither, and Republican Sekula-Gibbs. Only Lampson's and Smither's names appeared on the ballot, as Shelley Sekula-Gibbs had to run as a write-in candidate because DeLay had previously won the Republican primary.
The District is again preparing for a re-election in the year 2008. This time, along with Sekula-Gibbs, several other Republicans are running for the seat including former Sugar Land mayor Dean Hrbacek , former Pasadena mayor John Manlove, former John Cornyn Chief of Staff Pete Olson, Family District Judge Jim Squier, State Representative Bob Talton, and NASA contractor Ryan Rowley.
Conservative columnist Robert Novak wrote in May 2007 that he believes there are at least a few House seats that were won by Democrats in 2006 ‘solely because of GOP corruption,’ and that such seats would be ‘the most likely to return to the Republican column in 2008.’ He qualifies this by noting that in previous elections, major House gains by either party have always been followed by losses in the next election. But he says that the presence of the US troops continuing in Iraq can be bad news for the Republicans in Washington.
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