Chip Roy Rocks - Texas Needs More Like Him

The Houston Courant ^ | January 18, 2020 | B. Vasoli

[The Houston Courant]

Sir Humphrey Appleby, the loathsome bureaucrat on the 1980s Britcom Yes, Minister, knew how to pry lawmakers off their ideals: Call them “controversial,” or better yet, “courageous.” The former quality, he explained, costs votes; the latter imperils reelection.

Days after winning Texas’s 21st congressional seat in November 2018, soon-to-be U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R) told the Sir Humphrey types to get lost.

“…Too many people in Washington on both sides of the aisle… get here and the first thing they start thinking about is moving the levers to get reelected,” Roy told Fox News’s Mark Levin. “That’s not why you’re here. You’re here because you know that there’s a greatness in our country that is being held back by a government that is too much in the way of [Americans’] ability to manage their own lives at the state level, in their homes, in their families.”

Now a year into his first term, Roy is the legislator he promised to be: a law-and-order, small-government reformist undismayed by electoral uncertainty. Yet he’ll brave that uncertainty again, having announced his reelection bid last month. He did so as Democrats nationally trumpet plans to target his seat—all the more daringly if they nominate, as expected, former state Sen. Wendy Davis, a liberal stalwart known for filibustering abortion restrictions in 2013 and running unsuccessfully for governor a year later.

[dp0622]

Well having someone who got clocked in a prior election run against him will do the trick :)

[humblegunner]

What stopped you from posting the whole thing?
This isn’t your personal click farm.

Get a job.

[Hiddigeigei]

“Yet ev’rybody says I’m such a disagreeable man! And I can’t think why!”