Good grief! Tom DeLay, of Sugar Land, TX (you know, Tom, you also represent many, many other cities in the greater Houston area due to your questionably illegal redistricting efforts) uses these cute descriptive words to describe Chris Bell, Democratic candidate for governor of Texas: preening, dishonest, obsessive, indulgent in self flattery, egotistic, pathological.
Tom, Tom, Tom - I think you are so used to thinking these things about yourself that they are spilling out of your head, out of your mouth and you are accidentally using them to characterize other perfectly fine people!
DeLay is cutting and running as my representative to Congress, so don't wag out that "U.S. REP. TOM DELAY" moniker when it suits your mood to write an opinion piece to the Houston Chronicle! Tom DeLay's op-ed piece below:
http://chron.com/...
DeLay responds to Bell
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
CHRIS Bell's April 9 Outlook article, "WITHOUT DELAY / Next, fix ethics mess in Texas / Add reform to special session call," is a case study in exactly why he lost his seat in Congress last year and why he has no chance of winning his race for governor this year. Like Bell, his op-ed was preening, dishonest and disturbingly obsessed with, well, me.
First of all, he incorrectly and egotistically asserted that he somehow played a role in my decision to leave Congress. Unless he is admitting to unethical and illegal coordination with Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, no unemployed liberal peacock (even one as indulgent in self-flattery as he is) had anything to do with my decision.
Secondly, Bell conveniently never mentioned that it was he not I who was cited by the ethics committee as having broken House rules.
And finally Bell's entire op-ed, while ostensibly about legislative priorities for the upcoming session, was really all about me. He has had a psychologically curious fixation on me ever since his Democratic constituents threw him out of office in an embarrassing primary defeat in 2004.
Texans voting for governor this November deserve a campaign that's about ideas, but so far they're not getting that from the Democratic nominee. Bell would like Texans to think he's somehow running against me, but, as usual, he's just running his mouth.
U.S. REP. TOM DELAY Sugar Land
Chris Bell's op-ed piece on DeLay here: http://www.chron.com/...
Let me say this about Chris Bell. I met him over a year or so ago - before he decided to run for governor. And, I've had the chance to see him and talk with him several times during this campaign season. My first, overwhelming impression of him was that he is the nicest, most normal, regular guy. Also, he is smart, funny and has a great command of the issues. The Chris Bell that Tom DeLay describes does not exist.
You can follow Bell's campaign here: http://www.chrisbell.com/
It's going to be tough, but he's got a real chance to beat Rick Perry in November.