There is no “write-in” permitted in a primary in TX. Write-ins must declare themselves within 45 days of a general election and run as essentially a third-party candidate. Looks like Stockman has once again ruined his own promising career. TX wouldn’t dare reject Cornball.
Stockman will have my vote.
/johnny
“There is no “write-in” permitted in a primary in TX. Write-ins must declare themselves within 45 days of a general election and run as essentially a third-party candidate.”
That really sucks; but now that you mention it, I do recall hearing something about write-ins not counting after the ultra-tight Henry Cuellar-Ciro Rodriguez TX-28 primary in 2004 (when had there been like 60 write-ins cast and counted it would have denied Cuellar a majority and resulted in a run-off), but I thought that they were talking about write-ins for undeclared candidates.
Looked it up, and the write-in prohibition in primaries is from a 1986 law, amended in 1997. Maybe the TX legislature could amend the law and permit write-ins in federal primaries.
So, unless there’s a change in law, Stockman has really screwed conservatives by his last-minute decision; maybe he’s more than just a “fellow traveler” of the Paulistinians. That judge accused of fraud (Phil Fitzgerald) was not the only Republican to file yesterday right before the gun; TheGreenPapers.com also lists Doug Centilli, Chuck Meyer, Kim Morrell and Dave Norman as filing yesterday:
“House CD 36: Congressman Steve Stockman (Republican) - Open Seat; Doug Centilli (Republican) - added; Phil Fitzgerald (Republican) - added; Chuck Meyer (Republican) - added; Kim I. Morrell (Republican) - added; Dave Norman (Republican) - added.”
The question is, which one is the Paultard? Because I’m certain that Stockman whispered his intentions to his Paulistinian friends so that they could run a Paul cultist and steal a House seat that they could never win fairly. I think that, sadly, we’ll know which one is the Paulbot when one of them proclaims himself to be the “TEA Party choice” despite having no record of anything, and a bunch of FReepers are fooled into thinking that only so-and-so is a real conservative.
So I think that there’s a good chance that we’ll be stuck with a Paultard congressman for two years, and either James White or some other proven conservative can take out the trash in 2016, similar to what happened in MI-11 with Kerry Bentivolio.