“McClellan comes from a democratic family in Texas.”
Sort of. His mom is a former Republican Railroad Commissioner, State Comptroller, and independent candidate for governor.
From wikipedia:
“In her campaigns for school board, college board, and mayor, Strayhorn was not identified by partisan affiliation since those posts are elected on a nonpartisan basis. Strayhorn was a Democrat until the mid-1980s; she served as Democratic nominee Walter Mondale’s campaign chair in Travis County during the 1984 presidential election. Strayhorn switched parties and became a Republican in 1986, when she was the GOP nominee for the U.S. House seat held by J. J. Pickle.”
In other words, she’s a political whore. Guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Precisely! We get them in my overwhelmingly Republican county all the time - - rats who want to get elected know that they must be "Republican" to ever make it happen. So they switch registration but remain putrid rats at heart.
Unfortunately, that strategy is pretty much a one-way street since few Republicans ever want to live in, or get elected in, a rat's nest. Rat's tend to vacate their own nests after fouling them and move on to new climes to foul.
He takes after his mother, Carole Keeton-McClellan-Rylander-[Your name here]-Strayhorn.
There were mass party affiliation switches in Texas during that era, which is the main reason why Texas went from solidly Democrat in the 1970s to solidly GOP today.
Most did it because the 'Rats had moved too far to the left. So one shouldn't be too quick to insult an individual because he or she converted to the GOP.