“Shelley Sekula-Gibbs”
Go to ElectionProjection.com. See that map in the middle? That’s the projected change in Congressional races across the country. See how Texas is light blue? That’s because Nick Lampson is projected to win the 22nd district, thanks to Tom Delay’s stupidity in not resigning before the Republican primary.
So, to keep that from happening, learn how to spell Shelley’s name for when you write it in on your ballot. I wonder why y’all couldn’t get someone with an easier name to spell.
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October 24th, 2006 at 10:02 am
How’s this….. Chelly Sacoolah Gips
October 24th, 2006 at 10:03 am
BTW…. that’s the seldom used ebonics version.
October 24th, 2006 at 10:39 am
I’m spelling it: PAUL BETTANCOURT;
The bungling, galactically stupid GOP can kiss my grits, I am insulted they would trot out such plastic banana and expect people to vote for her.
I’m sure she’ll engage issues of real interest to the people of the area like anti-smoking laws….
October 24th, 2006 at 10:54 am
I’ve told folks at the early voting place that Republicans are smart enough to write in a candidate. Apparently PBF and CK don’t agree (or are’nt Repubs.) So far there don’t seem to be problems. Dr. Shelley has worked hard and stands for Conservative values. I have’nt seen a positive comment in the LST yet. It looks like y’all want to see a speaker pelosi.
October 24th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Since even the write-in candidates have to pay a registration fee to enter and there are only about three total candidates on the write-in ballot, the spelling of Ms. Sekula-Gibbs shouldn’t be a “hanging chad” away from being counted. I guess the Democrats will have an army of lawyers waiting to pounce on this one.
October 24th, 2006 at 11:05 am
I don’t want to see a Speaker Peeloser, but this Dr. hyphenated last name that no one can spell is not a conservative - she’s a government knows best nanny, and there is no telling what she would do if she were allowed to go to DC. At least you have some idea where the carpetbagging union thug stands. How this woman got selected to run in this district is beyond me - did old Nick pick her himself?
October 24th, 2006 at 11:24 am
The only polls that count are the ones on election day. I resent that someone is trying to tell me how I feel or how I’m going to vote.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
I just got back from early voting….and doing the write in for Sekula-Gibbs was no problem at all.
I was shooting the breeze with a couple of Gibbs volunteers and saw that there were several others that also had no problem with the write in process. That was neat, since it showed that the “cut & run” ‘pubbies are not as many as I might have thought.
Let’s show those knobs in the msm/dnc that we are not going to buy their tripe, people!!
October 24th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Write-ins never win. I am voting for Smither to prevent Lampson from winning.
http://www.smither4congress.com/
October 24th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
All of y’all naysayers:
This year for CD 22, it’s ANYBODY BUT LAMPSON!
October 24th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
i agree… WALLACE is easier to spell.
Why Sekula- Gibbs? Does she give good….. ummmm… you know…. or something? It’s not like she’s a real republican, she’s one of those damned nanny-state types with her idiotic smoking ban, etc…
October 24th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Smither is our only chance… do you want to see Pelosi as Speaker?
October 24th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
GuyFawkes Says:
October 24th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
“Smither is our only chance… do you want to see Pelosi as Speaker?”
To be perfectly honest, I didn’t hear of anybody that said the voted for Smither…..but I did see 2 that were voting for the RAT (Lamps on) along with an honest dozen (besides myself) that voted for Sekula-Gibbs.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
SK0811,
So you want Pelosi to be speaker then… great.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Does anybody know if “carpetbagger” Lampson has moved into a house, yet, or is he waiting until he actually wins to move from an apartment to a house with his family, so that he can say he actually resides in the district.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Robert,
Thanks to all these idiots writing in a losing name, he should be making plans very soon.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
I am voting Libertarian.
How to spell Shelley’s name?
B U S Y B O D Y
Why foist Shelley on the whole of the union? Goodness, she thinks that banning smoking is such good thing! Poperty rights? What’s that.
She already has been elevated beyond her level of competency.
Maybe she’ll pass a law forcing all doctors to take Medicare/Medicaid?
Ugggggg.
Smither’s getting my vote.
Voter in the hell hole known as Clear Lake.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
#16 Name is by inclination or just for trivia?
October 24th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Just vote for Smither and you don’t have to spell anything.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Reply to No. 06 GuyFawkes:
Where did Nick Lampson “carpetbag” in from anyway? All he has to move is his clothes because he’s probably been living out of a suitcase. No use planting roots if your not staying. Maybe Nick needs to move into a safe Democratic district like Queen Sheila’s.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I’m sorry “GuyFawkes”, I meant No. 16 in my reply of No. 20.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Sounds like some rightious bitterness here. I am going vote for the idiot nanny only because I don’t want to see DNC union thug, no wait thugs too strong of a word ….. weasel is more appropriate get into office again. If there ever was a poster child for sleazy demonrat, it’s him.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
I was listening to some of the Kinkster’s interview on KTRH this morning. He actually sounded like he made sense for a musician. He won’t get elected, but at least you know where he stands. Perry would never be as committal in an interview. I still feel I need to vote for that slickster Perry to keep a Republican in office and the corrupt Bell out, but if Kinky had a chance to win, I’d consider him more. There really isn’t a good choice in this no matter what. The only thing worth voting for in this election is to vote against all of White’s propositions. Which really is a negative way of looking at it. In fact, there really isn’t much of anything positive about the whole election. I’m not really going to vote for anyone I have any respect for, just against the ones we don’t dare let get into office. What fun this is.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
CRK,
You will be voting for Lampson then. Write-ins don’t win.
Vote Smither if you don’t want Lampson to win. Vote Smither if you don’t want Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
#4 oldster:
No, I don’t agree, and whether or not I’m a Republican depends on the actions(Note: not just rhetoric!) and performance of the ‘party’. If they act like lying socialists, then that is what they are, no matter what they call themselves.
With the complete ineptituide exihbited by the local GOP in handling the whole HD 22 mess, I am not impressed, in fact, rather disgusted.
I will vote Libertarian, and if we have speaker Pelosi, then the GOP can look in the mirror at who is responsible for it: themselves!
I have said it before, and it’s true: we gave them a mandate and a majority to carry it out. What we got was contempt by the ‘leaders’ of the party, no cap on property taxes, a road through the middle of our state, (built by foriegners!), and a tax increase in face of a 8 Billion dollar surplus!!!
So if they are flushed this election, don’t cry and whine and blame the voters, oldster; this is on THEIR own fault!!
October 24th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Tom Delay’s ineptitude ended up costing the GOP the House? He’s the one screwing the Reps in 22nd, not Lampson.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
http://bobsmither.com/radiospots
October 24th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Sekula-Gibbs is a big government nanny-stater - NOT a conservative. She flip flopped on illegal immigration just THIS YEAR when she decided to run for Congress. Just last week she pushed through a draconian city smoking ban in Houston bars.
Under Gibbs’ revenue-minded smoking ban you can get fined $2,000 for smoking OUTSIDE if it is within 25 feet of a doorway. I don’t smoke nor do I particularly care for it, but that’s a decision that should be made by the individual property owner for his bar - not by the government.
Smither is the only conservative in this race and the only chance to win. No credible political expert thinks that Shelley has a chance as a write-in. She’ll be lucky to even break 10%. Plus, she’s run a terrible campaign and never got the $4 million funding she was promised by the RNC. Cheney’s appearance was about saving face and boosting the GOP ticket in other races - not any genuine belief that Gibbs could pull this off.
She’s damaged goods politically, and an inept campaigner with almost zero chance of winning as a write in. A vote for her is a wasted vote for Nick Lampson. Stick with the Libertarian Bob Smither - he’s the only real conservative in this race and the only one on the ballot.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
There is NO way I’m wasting my vote on a write
in candidate. I’m voting for Smither.
It’s not that I really hate democrats either.
Smither is just better than Lampson.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
There is NO way I am wasting my vote on a
WRITE IN!
I’m voting for Smither. I don’t care who the
next Speaker of the House is. Smither is just
a smarter guy than Lampson.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
28 -
I never met her, but on TV and radio and in the press she comes off as phony as a $3 bill.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
PBFloyd
I would agree with you on state elections, but totally disagree with you on national elections. I will not turn the security of this country over to dims, no matter what. Most Americans feel this way, as the polls are indicating. Despite the MSM, the polling is turning against the dims in favor of Republicans, in states the Dims had good hopes of winning (Tennessee, New Jersey, etc.). What does that say about the states where Repubs are incumbants? The Repubs may GAIN seats if this trend continues to grow.
October 24th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
There is NO way I am wasting my vote on a WRITE IN!
I’m voting for Smither. I’m not really concerned
about aDemocrat Speaker of the House.
Smither is just a lot smarter than Lampson
October 24th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
You’re not alone. I was watching a voting special on Democracy Now last night and write-ins are a total joke acording to it. There’s no chance in hell of this authoritarian cretin getting voted in anyway!
Well I’m not wasting MY vote and I don’t want a Democrat in that spot, I’m voting for Bob Smither! Polls say he has a real chance so I’m voting for him. It’d be the first time in a loooooong time we’ve had a REAL fiscal conservative in office anyway! No more boondoggles!
October 24th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
It is time for more Republicans to recognize that the Libertarian Party is the party most of them think the Republican Party should be. It is not just the Smither is the best candidate in this contest, but that the Libertarian candidate is the best candidate in almost every contest where on is on the ballot.
Most people are brainwashed to imagine that their vote might make the difference in the outcome. The odds that any election will be decided by a single vote is infinitesimal. What a vote can do is influence public policy, and a vote for a minor party candidate, if he better represents your views, is likely to have a greater effect on public policy than joining one of the herds that vote for major party candidates.
I invite you all to visit my site http://www.jonroland.org I am the Libertarian candidate for Texas Attorney General.
October 24th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
There is an additional reason to vote for Bob Smither. If he is elected, then he will join Rep. Ron Paul, perhaps with Michael Badnarik of the 10th District. Right now Rep. Paul can’t introduce bills because he can’t get a second. With at least two libertarians in the House, they can finally introduce legislation that can provoke real debates about constitutional compliance, something that other members of Congress don’t want to touch. See http://www.constitution.org
October 24th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
Why do you not list the Libertarian candidate for governor, James Werner? He is on the ballot, and deserves a fair consideration. “None of the above” is now at 12%. Let’s put a name to that support.
October 24th, 2006 at 11:27 pm
OK, well, thanks for all the comments here. I haven’t seen the other guys post about the race in the 22nd very much, and I wanted to see what y’all thought about it.
You may or may not know, but I live in Colorado now, though I used to live in Houston. I actually used to live in the 22nd district. So I have more than a passing interest in how this race turns out.
I knew very little about Sekula-Gibbs other than that she is the “designated write-in” for the GOP after the Delay debacle.
I think that if I were down there, I would probably also vote for Smither.
BUT!
What option will prevent Lampson from stealing the seat? Writing in Sekula-Gibbs, or voting for Smither?
Well, what does it look like to y’all that live down there?
October 25th, 2006 at 1:47 am
The Smither campaign’s current polling has the following results:
Lampson - 39%
Smither - 20%
Sekula-Gibbs - 12%
Undecided - 29%
Lampson’s poll (which misrepresented Smither as a Liberal) put Gibbs at 14%, so I suspect it is fairly accurate to say that Gibbs is hovering around the 10% mark (the poll she had claiming to be in the lead was fraudulent - it excluded Smither from the choices and presented her if she was not a writein). Lampson seems stuck in the low 40’s as well on virtually all of the polls.
That makes Smither our strongest bet. Lampson is near his maximum of Democrat support at about 40%. If the 29% undecideds can be rallied behind Smither, he wins. Gibbs has no chance though without taking votes from Smither, and he’s ahead of her so that’s very impractical.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:51 am
#38 - Smither is the best shot we have at beating Lampson. The polls show him in 2nd place, and almost 30% undecided. Lampson seems to have maxed out the democrat base in the low 40’s. If Republicans rally behind Smither he has a shot at stopping Lampson. Gibbs does not.
October 25th, 2006 at 7:30 am
#40: you may be right, but I am afraid the republican base will split between Smither and Gibbs and put Lampson in.
I forget though: Does Lampson have to get over 50% of the vote, and could there be a runoff?
October 25th, 2006 at 7:48 am
#32 Neo; We may not disagree as much as you think; I’m not advocating a purge for no good reason. Only for those who have performed poorly for the people.
At a national level, I still will not vote for KayBaby, but then I haven’t for the last 2 elections, and she’s made it without my vote just fine, it seems. The only other elections are in the House Of Reps, the only body of law makers who has performed somewhat well, IMHO.
I too, do not want to see a Chairperson Pelosi(is she a person? She looks like a space alien to me!),or a Dimocrat majority. But I’m sick of the GOP scare tactic being used by them, and am disgusted by the implied message, ‘our people may suck, but sucks less than theirs, so vote for us!’
Like all the rest of us at our jobs, they need to held accountable!! Not,’we’ll get it right THIS time, we promise!’
I think people are a lot smarter than the stooge pols and their handlers think; witness the ground swell support for the Smithers. If the GOP planners think they can throw us a RINO like Shelly Whateverhernameistoday, and expect us to perform like monkey’s and vote for her, I think they are mistaken.
But if we DO get Speaker Pelosi, the GOP can look at themselves for the reason this happened, and their pathetic performance, not at the voters.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:59 am
“Lampson from stealing the seat”
What a loaded piece of carp this statement is. Stealing?
Talking about GOP Kool Aid drinkers.
Just in case, I AM VOTING FOR SMITHER.
BTW, for which elective offices we have run-offs?
October 25th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
#41 - The split in the GOP base is indeed a danger here. But it’s not the type of split we normally see in races with a Libertarian.
This time it’s Gibbs who is actually taking votes away from Smither, who has the advantageous ballot position. Gibbs’ juvenile little write in campaign only pulls votes away from Smither, who is in the more credible position to challenge Lampson. She’s the spoiler candidate, and Republicans who think otherwise are only deluding themselves.
The sensible conservatives out there who are genuinely concerned with stopping Lampson are the only ones who can deflect this spoiler scenario. They need to rally behind Smither, and if they do he has a shot at beating Lampson.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
#43 - No runoffs in CD 22, but there is a runoff in the CD 22 special election to fill the rest of DeLay’s term.
This has its advantages and disadvantages. The bad part: Lampson can win with less than 50% of the vote. IF conservative turnout is strong (and that’s a big IF), I can see him getting 41-42%. We only need 43% behind one of the other candidates to beat that though.
Smither is in 2nd, has some great radio ads on the air right now, and you don’t have to teach anybody to spell his name. That makes him the logical choice to stop Lampson.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
FWIW the hyphen-lady’s full name is actually Shelley Sekula-Greenberg-Rodriguez-Gibbs. She’s one of those rare candidates who could actually give Carol Keeton-McClellan-Rylander-Strayhorn a run for her money in name changes.
October 25th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
For ages I have advocated the run-off system. I’ve had negative reactions from the Left to the Right.
It is time we implement run-offs. It is the best chance to really be able to vote our conscience.
The mess we are in is due, in part, to not having run-offs. And it keeps the system closed.
November 6th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
We do indeed have a run off system. It’s as simple as voting in the primaries. THAT is when your vote really counts. It’s just that Delay in this instance thwarted the democratic process by his late decision to withdraw.
November 6th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
It should be noted that other states have wrongly allowed political parties to do what Delay tried to do… allow the Party to pick a candidate on the ballot after state deadlines when a candidate is no longer able to run.