Thursday, June 23, 2005
One Tough Race
Comptroller Strayhorn: as seen before the mauling by the Texas Bible Thumpers for Perry Committee.
As expected, Texas Comptroller Carol Keeyton...skip a few...Strayhorn is now a candidate for Governor in the 2006 Republican Party primary.
The Austin American-Statesman reports on her candidacy.
As I wrote this weekend: "Carol, by the way, is mother to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. He has yet to explain the Secret Service reports that show gigolo-turned-reporter Jeff Gannon coming to the White House late at night and leaving early in the morning, all while the rest of the W.H. press corps was out of town with the President. The implication that her son may be involved in a gay sex scandal won't play well with the Repugs. She also used to be a Democrat, and still holds a few of our beliefs (one in particular: the state should fully fund CHIP). They hate that."
In other words, the uberchristians won't vote for her. Besides her possibly gay son and pro-poor-people policy ideas, her marital history is blemished (at best).
Also as the Austin American-Statesman reports, her son won't leave the blue podium in D.C. to campaign at home for Mom.
