Former GOP congressman (who supported Kerry) leads effort to oust DeLay

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 16, 2005 | GEBE MARTINEZ

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!!

[leprechaun9]

How many of these pimps of the election industry retired and how many were flushed from office?

[Lazamataz]

"The stench coming out of the DeLay operation" does not represent the GOP that he served with in Congress, McCloskey said.

This is a perfect example about why this guy lost his job.

[Dan from Michigan]

Sounds like Leftist Bill Milliken (gun grabber who backed Kerry) types. Milliken was a big reason why before Richard Headlee, I would have been a "Reagan Democrat" before 1982 in Michigan as I had more in common with the then moderate/conservative wing of the dems than I did with the Milliken/Ford leadership.

Thank God for John Engler in this state. I didn't always agree with some of his stuff at the end of his career, but he took the GOP to the right and away from its high tax and baby killing wing.

[Rakkasan1]

now all they need is "hit and run" Janklow to jump on the Delay-bashing bandwagon and we'll have a veritable smorgasboard of rino losers

[The Old Hoosier]

The liberal media couldn't get Bob LIvingston, so this is the best the could come up with.

[bgsugar]

So a former RINO California Congressman is coming to Texas to talk to an opportunistic fringe element attorney who runs against DeLay in every election to get free PR for his business so "they" can try to identify another RINO to run against DeLay . . . .

Bring 'em on.

[Theodore R.]

I believe, DJ, that former Rep. Fred Grandy, R-IA, once was an aide to Wiley Mayne in his pre-acting days. But I had thought that Mayne was "conservative."

[Theodore R.]

DJ, didn't McCloskey begin his congressional career by defeating Shirley Temple Black in 1967 in a special election. If so, who held that seat previously? Only you would know!!!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Mayne seemed to be more of a RINO (described as a country-club type), and Grandy seemed to be one, too (he made the stupid move in '94 of challenging Gov. Terry Branstad in the primary and lost).

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yes, he did indeed defeat Ambassador Black. The GOP incumbent, J. Arthur Younger, an 8-term member, had died in office in June 1967. I'm unaware of Younger's leanings, though I doubt he was nowhere near as leftist as McCloskey.