RNCC worried about Sessions
By Byron LaMasters
Six Republican congressmen will speak at the Republican convention. Typically, the congressmen given these spots are the most endangered incumbents, and among them? None other than Pete Sessions:
From a NRCC release on 8/26, these are the candidates addressing the GOP convo:
NRCC Chairman Rep. Tom Reynolds (NY-26)
Rep. Jim Gerlach (PA-06)
Rep. Pete Sessions (TX-32)
Rep. Bob Beauprez (CO-07)
Rep. Jon Porter (NV-03)
Rep. Rodney Alexander (LA-05)
Not only is Sessions one of the six, but Alexander is only given a spot because he's a turncoat, and Reynolds because he is chair of the NRCC. Thus, Sessions, along with Gerlach, Beauprez and Porter are four of the Republican incumbents that the NRCC considers the most vulnerable.
Other Texas Republican congressional candidates to speak at the RNC are Louie Gohmert, Ted Poe and Becky Armendariz Klein. Since Republicans have no non-Cuban Hispanic congresswomen, Klein serves as a token Hispanic female, even though she has no chance in hell. Poe and Gohmert, meanwhile are locked in tough races with Democratic incumbents. I am surprised though. Where is Arlene Wohlgemuth? She could talk about real Republican values, like throwing a temper tantrum after her bill got stuck in the Calendar Committee, or working to take thousands of kids health care away by knocking them off the CHIP program. But I forgot. This convention isn't about real Republican values. This convention is about showing off the dying breed of moderate Rockefeller Republicans who have zero influence in policy, yet for the next week will represent the face of a party that has abandoned them.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at August 28, 2004 09:19 PM
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