Candidate Forum with Morrison and DeLay!!!!!

[johncoby2]

The Clear Lake High School Debate Team is hosting a candidate forum for Congressional Candidates in District 22.

All campaigns have agreed to participate!

Tuesday Oct 19th
7:00 - 8:30
6:30 - 7:00 meet with the candidates.
Northpointe Elementary School
3200 Almond Creek Dr.
Houston, Texas 77059

[pinkpops]

1. Why Clear Lake - Isn't that a long way from Sugarland?

[PDittie]

2. DeLay had NASA drawn into his district

I'll be there with my blue shirt on, John.

[NoPasaran]

3. Looking forward to a report on this n/t

[ashling]

4. I hope someone can tape this

My daughter at college in Va. called to tell me about this. Can someone tape this or let us know if it will be broadcast on radio or tv.?

[Lisa0825]

5. YEEEHAWWWWWW!!!:-)

Bring it on!!!

[sphinx77449]

6. Hopefully ...

.. this will be one of the last time we see this scumbag, "Hairspray" DeLay before he is run outta the legislative house and IN to the Bighouse.

That boy is a P-I-G ... PIG !!

If ANYONE has not visited with one of DeLay's biggest fans (NOT !!), you need to visit "Juanita at The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon".

Check this REAL Texas Gal at www.brazosriver.com . Click "Fun Stuff" (on right) for a "Special Tom DuhLay Website for the Easily Amused".

[PDittie]

7. DeLay has decided not to show up:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Friday said that he would not debate Democratic challenger Richard Morrison before the Nov. 2 election.

Morrison and DeLay, both of Sugar Land, are squaring off in the newly redrawn District 22. The district includes a swath of western Galveston County, including portions of Friendswood, La Marque, Santa Fe and Dickinson.

<snip>

“I want to know why he’s ducking me,” Morrison said last week in a visit to The Daily News. “What’s he scared of?”

At least so far, DeLay, the No. 2 man in the House, has calculated that Morrison has more to gain from a debate than DeLay has to lose by avoiding one. “A debate would be for his benefit, not for mine,” DeLay said of Morrison.

He also said that a debate with Morrison would go largely unnoticed. “Unfortunately, debates in this area have never had an impact ,” DeLay said. “Television never covers them. I’ve been doing this for 20 years and you show up to a forum where there are more candidates at the forum than constituents. I’d much rather be out with constituents, meeting them and going to events.”

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=56626

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Front page, above the fold, yesterday's Galveston Daily News.

But 'the media doesn't cover' debates.

Yesterday morning there were fifty people in Richard's campaign office preparing to block-walk when someone came in with the newspaper. We laughed, hooted, hollered and several of us whipped out our cell phones and called DeLay's campaign HQ, where they knew nothing of it.

I'm thinking the light is bound to go on in somebody's head that this is simply the latest in a series of bad judgments by the Bugmeister.

He cannot afford not to show up. Can you imagine what it is going to look like with an empty podium and a placard with "Tom DeLay" on it?

He's going down, people.

Not even DeLay himself believes he's polling 56% in a brand new district where he drew more Dems in to help Ted Poe (Nick Lampson's opponent). The last independednt poll in the district was over a month ago and was 48-39 in his favor, and that was before the three ethical rebukes by his peers, and before Judicial Watch called for him to step down.

Yesterday those volunteers who crammed Richard's office fanned out with precinct maps and hung 4,500 door hangers with details about the debate and early voting locations.

He's going down, people.

[sonias]

9. Once a chickenhawk always a chickenhawk

Once a chickenshit always a chickenshit. Run away and hide bug man, hide under the bu$hie bed but he can't protect you either.

:evilgrin:

Sonia

[NoPasaran]

8. The guy really is a cockroach

He was afraid to show his face in Austin a couple of weeks ago and now he chickens out of a debate. Flip the lights on and there he goes, scurrying away. I am so looking forward to him being behind bars.

[joanne]

10. Please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!

Let Richard Morrison defeat cockroach!!!

[Richardo]

11. DeLay touted the debate on Chris Baker's AM spew fest yesterday afternoon

...did he in fact show up? How did it go?

[PDittie]

12. He DID show up

From the Houston Chronic:

Tom DeLay made a surprise appearance Tuesday night at a Clear Lake candidates forum.

There was so much speculation about whether the House majority leader would show up that even the sponsor, the Clear Lake High School Debate Club, said it wasn't expecting him.

But about 30 minutes before the forum began, the students got a call that the Sugar Land Republican was on his way.

The candidates, including independent Michael Fjetland, Democrat Richard Morrison and Libertarian Tom Morrison (no relation), discussed local issues such as the San Jacinto Rail line and mobility, and national concerns including the war on terror and homeland security.

<snip>

About 200 people, mostly adults, attended the forum in the auditorium of North Pointe Elementary School. While the forum was mostly civil, Richard Morrison and Fjetland attacked DeLay's record.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2856867

And I did not, so I await a report from johncoby (or someone else) who did.

[Richardo]

13. 'Houston Chronic' ;-)

Hey, PDittie! :hi:

[PDittie]

14. Hey Rich!

How 'bout them Astros?

[Richardo]

15. How *bout* 'em? I'm streaming the game to my desk at 3:00 PM today...

Try and stop me! :D

Sox and 'Stros in the WS :thumbsup: