Gay Republican Write-In Running Against Doggett
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
From the world of semi-bizarre comes word that Congressman Doggett in TX-25 running from Austin to Mexico, will have more than just a Libertarian challenger, he'll have a 24 year old gay Republican waging a write-in campaign.
Edward Mokrzy, 24, a former Dallas resident, said he had planned to file for a place on the ballot in the primary before the National Republican Congressional Committee cancelled a pledge to provide his $3,125 filing fee. The group pulled its support after he announced he would run as openly gay and on a government reform platform, he said.
"I think what happened was that the Texas Republican Party got scared because they saw me as actually having a chance of winning Austin and of winning the election," Mokrzy said.
Mokrzy said he suspects Republican Party leaders would prefer not to see an openly gay Republican elected to office. Austin is so liberal that a gay candidate with progressive ideas about government reform would stand a good chance of winning, he said.
"That's speculation, but I do truly believe that," Mokrzy said.
Well, Mokrzy can speculate all he wants, but on the ballot or not, he's not going to fracture Doggett's Austin base any time soon. And even the Log Cabin Republicans don't know who he is.
Carla Halbrook, a spokeswoman for Log Cabin Republicans who lives in Dallas, said she is unfamiliar with Mokrzy or any support for him from gay Republicans in Texas.
"I don't know anything about him, and I haven't heard anything about him," Halbrook said.
And for Gay Republicans, you really think they could come up with a site slightly more fabulous than this one.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at January 19, 2006 11:58 AM
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"Mokrzy said he suspects Republican Party leaders would prefer not to see an openly gay Republican elected to office."
They would prefer not to have an openly gay anything elected to office. They prefer the closeted types as indicated by the number of closeted types running the party.
Interesting that they pledge the filing fee in some races. Probably explains how some Republicans got elected to office. Including quite a few judges in Texas. Simply because they were Republican and no one cared whether they were qualified or not. Just willing and able.
