CD 4: Melancon Planning Another Run, Hall Claims Ready To Work In Bipartisan Manner
By Vince Leibowitz on Nov 10, 2006 in 2006 Texas Elections, 2008 Texas Elections
Glenn Melancon will make another run for Congressional District 4 in 2008, according to the Texarkana Gazzette.
And, Ralph Hall claims he’s ready to work in a “bipartisan manner:”
Fresh from his While Republican Ralph Hall was not surprised he won his congressional re-election by such a large margin, he was surprised the Democrats managed to take control over the House of Representatives.
But he said if they’re coming to work and not to settle a political score, he will work hard side by side with them.
“If they come here to legislate and take care of the people’s work, we’ll work with them,†he said Wednesday afternoon. “I know I certainly will.â€
It is particularly interesting that Hall would say this since he spent the majority of his career in Congress as a Democrat. He switched parties in 2004 to run as a Republican after realizing that he’d probably face a RNCC funded opponent in a rough election after Rockwall was moved into CD 4 and made even more Republican.
I note that the story didn’t include anything about Hall seeking another term, though. As the oldest member of the House of Representatives, most people have believed Hall won’t retire until the Good Lord retires him. But, usually after an election he’s talking about another term and how the President asked him to run.
So, I’m going to predict this will be Hall’s last term in Congress and that he’ll retire and go enjoy life.
Hall announced to the Rockwall County Young Republicans, about 3 weeks before the election, that he WAS going to run again in 2008. With his wife near death now, he will not have that to slow him down….oh, wait….that didn’t slow him down this time….nevermind. Hall is a chump who will now be even more useless to CD-4 as he won’t get that chairmanship he has always lusted for. He ran a deceitful campaign, using his thugs to do his slander work, while trying to claim how “above it” he was. So long as CD-4’s majority are mindless, spineless sheep, it will continue to elect these political-liberal/social-conservative Republicans like Hall, who want to legislate our private lives and keep irresponsibly spending our children’s incomes. I am embarrassed to be living in Rockwall, but can only hope these people return to their good senses in 2008.
Now he is bipartisan? During the election Hall was touted by some as a statesman. Hall is no statesman. Would a statesman always voted against a minimum wage? A statesman would not have such a narrow partisanship of always supporting big business vs. his constituents. Hall is a Bush rubberstamper of the worst kind even when he was a so called democrat. He does what he is told and reads what he is given. Ralph Hall is out of touch period. Hall said when asked how a trip to the Mariana Islands represented CD-4 “I think it benefits my constituents …. when you’re going out to bring information to them to help win the Cold War. That’s a benefit to them, to their strategic interests.†The Cold War ended in 1991. Hall proposes we should “flatten Baghdad to show them they’ve been whipped”. He admitted that “The War on Terror involves keeping the bad guy from having his foot on half the oil reserves in that most populated area,†Hall said. “For that reason I think you could glean that this is a war for energy.†In other words blood for oil is OK with Ralph. Who is next? Iran? Now that Bush is touting bipartisanship here comes Hall parroting the same.