Posted on 11/06/2009 1:06:48 PM PST by mnehring
AUSTIN — State Rep. Chuck Hopson says he's leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a Republican.
Hopson says President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress don't reflect the conservative values of his East Texas district.
Hopson, in a phone interview from Jacksonville, said Friday that more than 70 percent of voters in his district voted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
The decision is tough blow for the Texas Democratic Party. The split in the Texas House of Representatives was a narrow 76-74 in favor of the GOP.
State Democratic Party chairman Boyd Richie said he's disappointed with Hopson, but said he's still confident Democrats will gain control of the House with next year's election.
So lemme get this straight. We’re supposed to kick the RINOs out but welcome DEMs who switch party affiliation?
they’re just RINO....
How did this guy get elected as D if his District is 70% R?
We have a lot of old Dems in this area that are more Conservative than Republicans, they just have had the label so long it stuck with him. I don’t know if he is a RINO on issues.. I’ll do some digging into his record.
In their minds, it seems perfectly plausible, cause their dims! Now if they really had a set, they would switch to Independent.
” but said he’s still confident Democrats will gain control of the House with next year’s election.”
In Texas during the 2010 midterms? Quite the contrary, the Dems are going to get blown out.
Many Texas’s D’s are more conservative than many National R’s!
The switch makes the current House (out-of-session) 77 Rs and 73 Ds.
This is good. One more vote for the R’s.
I sure hope if he is going to switch; he will vote not as a RINO.
“So lemme get this straight. We’re supposed to kick the RINOs out but welcome DEMs who switch party affiliation?”
There are conservative D’s in TX.
For example, solidly conservative Georgia rep. Nathan Deal, who switched away from the DemoNazis back in 1995 is FAR more conservative than ANY so-called Republican Represenatative or Senator from the Northeast.
Ex-Rat Sen. Richard Shelby may not be 100% perfect, but he's FAR more conservative than many of his Republican colleagues. The list goes on (Phil Gramm, some guy named Ronald Reagan....)
Nate Deal is no "RINO" but schmucks like Olympia Snowe sure as hell are.
I’ll tell you how - there are more idiots who grew up as conservative democrats but believe every aspect of the republican party - yet vote democrat. Their Daddy voted democrat and their grandfather voted dem....so they vote dem but are as conservative as they come....just stupid.
He doesn’t seem to be a die hard Conservative, more of a populist. He does seem to be to the right of McCain on several issues and he is for the Voter ID laws, something most Dems here oppose. Overall, he seems to be a localist/populist.
http://chuckhopson.com/issues/voter-id/
Hey Nancy - still think you won last week?
I guess her Mussolini like tactics aren’t serving their cause very well.
He also was endorsed by the NRA.
DU called him a Zell (Miller) wannabe
Yep. He's saying he's moving to the right, that there's no room for conservatives in the Texas Democrat Party. Excellent development.
This fool is just figuring that out—typical career political whore
so was the woman in New York that was a democrat plant posing as a republican.
Chet Edwards is "supposed" to be a populist/conservative/whatever... but he's on his knees in front of Obama like a $4 hooker and was dying to be VP.
I don't trust anybody like them. It's like a Frenchman deciding when he saw the armada off the coast of Normandy to join the freedom fighters and resistance movement.
look at how they voted on taxes, health bill and see what you see.
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