While our esteemed Senatah Box Turtle continues to make an ass of himself on Twitter -- yeah John, how about on your life? -- and with less than a week to go before the filing deadline, the US Senate challengers are lining up on both sides of the aisle.
A very good backgrounder on the doctor at the link. Alameel joins Maxey Scherr, Michael Fjetland and possibly Roman McAllen among the Democrats. (McAllen announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination at George Barnstone's Final Friday event here in Houston in October, but has not filed and not returned a phone call to Brains as of yet).
The Republicans are many. The latest development there is that Erick Wyatt, listed on the Wiki page, has withdrawn and endorsed Linda Vega. Glenn Beck -- having struck out on David Barton and Louie Gohmert -- still wants someone more Teabaggerish and high profile, but has so far been rebuffed. Libertarian Jon Roland has filed.
PPP revealed a month ago that Cornyn could be in real danger from an effective primary challenge. That's what's driving his moronic Tweets; he's desperate to win street cred with the freak right wing. And the Dallas News article says that Dr. Alameel makes four Democrats, but I can't seem to find the 4th (excluding the rumored Mr. McAllen). Even the Godfather counts three. Who are we missing?
Update: Noah and Charles both have the answer in the comments.
Democrats could have a champion able to force Sen. John Cornyn to spend heavily to defend his job next year: David Alameel, a wealthy Dallas dentist who’s spent lavishly for candidates in both parties.
“I’ll just do whatever it takes. Money is not an issue for me. It’s more whether or not I feel I can make a difference,” Dr. Alameel said (yesterday) by phone. “We need new ideas. Not just the same politicians with the same redundant parroting of talking points.”
Alameel, 61, joins three other Democrats and a handful of Republicans gunning for Cornyn. The filing deadline for the March primaries is Dec. 9.
A very good backgrounder on the doctor at the link. Alameel joins Maxey Scherr, Michael Fjetland and possibly Roman McAllen among the Democrats. (McAllen announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination at George Barnstone's Final Friday event here in Houston in October, but has not filed and not returned a phone call to Brains as of yet).
The Republicans are many. The latest development there is that Erick Wyatt, listed on the Wiki page, has withdrawn and endorsed Linda Vega. Glenn Beck -- having struck out on David Barton and Louie Gohmert -- still wants someone more Teabaggerish and high profile, but has so far been rebuffed. Libertarian Jon Roland has filed.
PPP revealed a month ago that Cornyn could be in real danger from an effective primary challenge. That's what's driving his moronic Tweets; he's desperate to win street cred with the freak right wing. And the Dallas News article says that Dr. Alameel makes four Democrats, but I can't seem to find the 4th (excluding the rumored Mr. McAllen). Even the Godfather counts three. Who are we missing?
Update: Noah and Charles both have the answer in the comments.
Sadly, Alameel may spend his way to the Democratic nomination, at least. I'd like to see more on just how conservative he is. The Snooze notes that he threw money at Cornyn in the past.
ReplyDeleteThere's a HyeTae "Harry" Kim, from Odessa, mentioned by BOR late yesterday (http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14457/bor-elections-weekly-round-up-nov-25-dec-1-are-surprise-retirements-coming). Google had very little to say about him other than he's a dentist. So that's four now.
ReplyDeleteThe other candidate is a gentleman named Harry Kim. He is a physician out of Odessa, but I don't know much else about him.
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