Like a bad quarter, he just keeps turning up .....

    As you’ve probably heard, the local Republicans in CD22 have become part volcano, part tornado, and all earthquake in their quest to win back CD 22 from the good guys.
    They've already got more candidates than you can shake a stick at, so they're using the sticks to hit each other. Getting to be a spectator at a Republican fight is entertainment of the quality that would make Hollywood jealous. So, I'm pretty positive that you're gonna hear a lot about it right here on this blog.
    Allow me to kick it off.
    I'm calling it The CD22 Republican Whackyfest for lack of a less descriptive term.
    Today we're gonna discuss Pete Olson. No particular reason I picked him to be first, other than the fact that I just found out something interesting about him and it's my time to share on the blog.
    Pete Olson is a former aide to Senator Phil Gramm, a man who once elected to the Senate, immediately retired. Sadly, he did not leave office until 6 years later.
Olson was in the Navy and got out 10 years ago. However, it doesn't appear that he's accomplished much since then because the first thing you see on his website is a big ole honkin' picture of himself in his sailor suit.
    I kinda figured that Olson might have some
ties to Tom DeLay when I saw that his fundraising organizer, Dana Benoit, was fresh from the DeLay campaign, where she did the same kind of stuff.
    However, I just got information that the ties that bind, bind into a pound of flesh. Olson's campaign manager is the infamous Chris Homan. I say infamous because he's a jerk and a nincompoop. Homan was Tom DeLay's last campaign manager.
    Homan was the author of the legendary "wrecking email."
    A history lesson: after Tom DeLay dropped out of the race of CD22 in abject shame and embarrassment, Homan found himself unemployed.
Homan sat his rump down at a computer and sent an inflamatory email to the Republican Ultra Faithful, encouraging them to "wreck" Lampson's press conference scheduled for the next day in Sugar Land. The email set up a meeting place before the press conference and even had the gall to ask people to RSVP to the idea of "Let's give Lampson a parting shot that wrecks his press conference."
     Sure 'nuff the Republicans show up at Lampson's press conference with air horns, signs, and a really nasty attitude. They scream, hit, shove, and injure a 70 year old Lampson supporter, not even to mention endangering several children who were there.
    It made the big city Houston news and backfired on them. They looked like screaming wackiacs because .... well, mainly because they are screaming wackiacs. Wackiac is my term for people totally devoted to being wacko.
    I know it's hard to figure that Homan could go downhill in the dirty politics department from there, but he did.
    Honey, poor ole Homan dug himself a hole so deep that the other end was a cup on a Chinese golf course. He went to work as a campaign manager for Pete Sessions in what most folks consider the dirtiest race in the history of Texas, which is sayin' something.
    And now, like a bad quarter, he turns up again right here in our hometown. I've been tryin' to talk the Fort Bend Democrats into going into the helmet business. With Homan around, we'll need them.