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Delay's Staff Walks Out on Sekula-Gibbs


by: Phillip Martin

Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 10:33 AM CST


Here's something funny. From Roll Call (subscription required):
The woman who was sworn in this week as the interim Republican successor to ex-Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was, shall we say, not a hit with holdover DeLay aides.

In fact, they showed their feelings about their new boss Tuesday by walking out of the office en masse and resigning, effective immediately. The DeLay refugees, who included DeLay's personal chief of staff, David James, walked out of the office, Von Trapp family-style (though without the singing) and huddled at Starbucks to get their wits about them.

Oh, but wait, there's more:
She showed up to take over DeLay's old office on Thursday and, according to sources familiar the office dynamics, was "mean" to the staff. On Tuesday, at her new Member's open-house reception in the office, sources charged that she was less than pleased that neither President Bush nor Vice President Cheney showed up with the rest of the welcome wagon...
You just can't make some things up.
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...Houston attorney Robert Gibbs was there. He is Sekula-Gibbs's third husband. "The first husband died," he said. "And the second husband died. And I'm still here."...

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Sekula-Gibbs - who she really is... (0.00 / 0)
A butch is a butch and there no other way of put it!

The voters  were kind enough to offer her the last place price and she now thinks she has a future!


what is that supposed to mean? "a butch...."? (0.00 / 0)
are you making some weird homophobic statement that i can't understand or is that a typo? 

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Isn't she in Congress for like 6 Weeks? (3.00 / 1)
Who does this woman think she is, Sheila Jackson-Lee?

Sorry Bush could not make it to her tea party/swearing in (0.00 / 0)
I think she's like a dermatologist or something. I guess she just wants to bask in the glory of being a Congresswoman for a few weeks before she goes back to squeezing zits.

Will she qualify... (0.00 / 0)
...for the pension plan?

Nope (1.00 / 1)
It takes five years to vest into that plan, I believe.

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Her office (0.00 / 0)

What kind of office facility does an instant lame duck receive?  Did they let her move in to DeLay's old digs?

But wait there's even more today (0.00 / 0)
AAS article 11/16
DeLay's replacement says staff deleted records and files

Just three days after being sworn in, U.S. Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs wants Congress to investigate the destruction of files in her office by former staff members of her predecessor, Tom DeLay.

The staffers walked out of her office Tuesday, resigning en masse, reportedly because they didn't like the way she was treating them.

Sekula-Gibbs said in a statement Thursday that seven employees in her Washington office and the district office in Stafford, Texas, outside Houston, "deleted records and files without my knowledge or permission" before quitting.

Quick Shelly, call Homeland Security and get those errant staffers!  Hey Tom DeLay thought he was the government.  No doubt he put them up to it.


Cover Girl (0.00 / 0)
Shelley just made the next Bum Steer cover of Texas Monthly.

Keep doing what you been doing, keep getting what you been getting.

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