More Texas Congressional Republicans In Leadership Races

Fresh from his “you’re not good enough to debate ME!” campaign in CD 31, Congressman John Carter (R-Round Rock) has set his sights perhaps the most coveted of all positions in the Republican House Leadership: Republican Conference Secretary.

(Snicker*Snicker*Snicker).

Clearly, Conference Secretary isn’t too much of a coveted position: Carter is the only candidate for the position. But, he’s released a list of 113 public supporters…surely that’s enough to scare away anyone else who might be ambitious enough to vie for the post of Conference Secretary. (Conference Secretary?? Nobody wants that! Give it to John Carter!)
Even so, in his race, Carter has more support than Pete Sessions (R-Dallas) does to become Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Poor ol’ Pete has a mere 81 pledges (less than Tom Craddick has to be Speaker of the Texas House). Sessions hasn’t released the names of his pledges, but congress watchers say it will take at least 100 pledges to win the spot.
Sessions says he wants to “overhaul the 1990s campaign model still dominant in congressional campaigns.” No word on what that means, but we can assume it simply means shooting taudry, negative television ads in HiDef.

With elections set for Friday, it remains to be seen whether or not Joe Barton (R-Ennis), who is hoping to be Majority Leader, and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Fort Worth), who is running for Republican Confrrence Vice Chair, will be successful.

Given the backlash against all things DeLay and all things that reek with the odor of the previous leadership, I can’t see more than one Texan earning a top leadership spot, especially since nearly every Republican in the Texas Congressional Delegation did their best to marry themselves to DeLay during his darkest hours.

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