| I attended Jim Mattox's funeral services yesterday at First Baptist Church in Austin.
After leaving the funeral, I was told that Congressman Michael McCaul attended. I cannot confirm this because I did not see him there, but the church was completely filled, with probably 1,000+ people with standing room only, so it was very difficult to see individual faces in the large crowd.
I left a message for his Washington office, asking if he was in attendance. If so, I want to thank him for attending.
But even more interesting are the rumors I've been hearing that Congressman McCaul is considering a run for TX Attorney General.
In my message to McCaul's office I also asked if their office can comment on this.
Has anyone else heard this? Any thoughts on this??
He would likely be a good choice by the Republican party, based on his bio. Which means we need to start campaigning for the Democrat (Patrick Rose? or Barbara Ann?) asap.
Here's a paragraph from his bio:
Prior to coming to Congress, Michael McCaul served as Chief of Counter Terrorism and National Security in the U.S. Attorney's office in Texas, and led the Joint Terrorism Task Force charged with detecting, deterring and preventing terrorist activity. Congressman McCaul also served as Texas Deputy Attorney General under current U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and served as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section in Washington, D.C.
David Mauro wrote in his Nov. 17th, 08' post, http://www.burntorangereport.c... that Barbara Ann Radnofsky was looking at this run. Barbara Ann told me directly "yes, I'm looking at it" a long while back at a People for the American Way event, so sounds like it's coming together...but we'll need to get this campaign in gear asap.
In David Mauro's above blog post, he mentioned speculation of Michael Williams, RR Commissioner, or Rep. Will Hartnet(R-Dallas) as potential Repub candidates.
Let me know if anyone has heard about McCaul's potential running. Again, I have not heard back from McCaul's office yet, therefore this is only speculation by a few unofficial sources that have shared this info with me.
Best,
David Kobierowski |
