Tag: Snelly Gibbr

216 of 216 Precincts Reporting

Candidate	Votes	Percent
Pete Olson	15,492	68.51%
Snelly Gibbr	7,118	31.48%

RESULTS: TX SoS | Houston Chronicle | KTRK | KHOU

11:28PM: Nick Lampson’s campaign manager’s statement on the results:

Lampson for Congress campaign manager Anthony Gutierrez
issued the following statement tonight regarding the results of the CD22
Republican primary runoff:

“Congressman Lampson has promoted NASA while his opponent didn’t know the
name of the Johnson Space Center in a recent debate. He has worked on
transportation issues while his opponent supports more toll roads and a big
government land grab called the Trans-Texas Corridor. And he has worked for
affordable health care while his opponent opposes the State Children’s
Health Insurance Program. Congressman Lampson is an independent voice for
Texas. His opponent is a Washington insider with little or no knowledge of
this district.”

9:55PM: Yup, this one is over. The Chronicle is calling the race for Olson, who will face off with freshman Democratic Rep. Nick Lampson in November.

9:27PM: Gibbs is falling behind in the e-day votes now, too. A Snelly Gibbr loss is a loss for hilarity.

9:13PM: Sekula Gibbs is winning the e-day votes counted so far, but Olson’s early vote advantage looks formidable. RIP Gibbr?

8:30PM Eastern: Olson gets a huge early lead based on the advance ballots.

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Polls will close at 6PM Mountain Time (8PM Eastern) in the hot runoff race between former Rep. Shelley Sekula Gibbs (heh) and former Sen. Cornyn chief of staff Pete Olson. We’ll keep tabs on the results in this thread as they come in.

In the meantime, here were the results of the March 4th primary:

Candidate	Votes	Percent
Snelly Gibbr	16,681	29.72%
Pete Olson	11,630	20.72%
John Manlove	8,388	14.94%
Robert Talton	8,163	14.54%
Dean Hrbacek	5,864	10.44%
Cynthia Dunbar	2,114	3.76%
Jim Squier	989	1.76%
Brian Klock	992	1.76%
Kevyn Bazzy	879	1.56%
Ryan Rowley	424	0.75%

While I think we’re all cheering for a Sekula Gibbs victory, this was a fun and nasty primary that either GOPer will walk away bruised from. The Gibbr picked up the endorsements of Hrbacek and Dunbar, while virtually every other Republican on the planet has endorsed Olson. Let’s see how this shakes out.

Speaking of comebacks, here’s some heartwarming news from the Houston Chronicle:

Shelley Sekula Gibbs, the Houston dermatologist who briefly succeeded former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in Congress last year, is moving ahead in her quest to regain the seat in 2008 by announcing some well-known local Republican support.

Sekula Gibbs, a former Houston City Council member, was elected to finish the last 51 days of DeLay’s term last year before yielding to Democrat Nick Lampson, who defeated her for a full term.

Her 51 days as interim congresswoman were rocky, however, with seven DeLay staffers walking out in her first week, complaining publicly that she had been a tyrannical boss. She also prompted chuckles in The Washington Post and other national publications by telling reporters she planned to resolve such thorny issues as tax cuts, immigration reform and the Iraq war – all in less than three weeks of a lame-duck Congress.

Amusingly, Sekula-Gibbs believes she has found what appears to be the winning formula for her 2008 campaign: removing the hyphen from her name!

Sekula Gibbs has changed the spelling of her name since then, dropping the hyphen that she feared would become a problem during her write-in campaign for the congressional seat in 2006.

Of course, as you may remember, her hyphenated name didn’t factor into her unsuccessful write-in campaign, with votes as diverse as “Snelly Gibbr”, “Shelly Gibkula” and “Shelly DraculaCunt Gibs” counting as real votes in her favor.

Most baffling of all, ol’ Snelly has begun to amass some pretty heavy-hitting support for her ’08 rematch bid:

A Republican, Sekula Gibbs has attracted several high-profile GOP supporters to her campaign steering committee. Among those are Bob Perry, a homebuilder and one of the nation’s biggest Republican contributors, and Trini Mendenhall Sosa, a co-founder of the Fiesta Mart grocery chain.

Are these guys trying to give Lampson his best shot at re-election?

(Special thanks to Kuff.)

I’m on a leave of absence, but I couldn’t just stand idly by and not post this gem from Texas.  I’m STILL cracking up!  From the Houston Press:

Having a name like “Shelley Sekula-Gibbs” and deciding to run a write-in campaign is, in a word, genius. It called to mind the immortal jingle sung by The Simpsons’ Schwarzenegger character, Rainier Wolfcastle: “Mein bratwurst has a first name, it’s F-R-I-T-Z. Mein bratwurst has a second name, it’s S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N.”

[…]

J.R. Perez of the Fort Bend County elections office says voters were pretty inventive in spelling Sekula-Gibbs’s name. Fort Bend is only one of four counties in District 22, but the list of spellings that were accepted as write-in votes (by a bipartisan panel who ruled on voters’ intent) is 28 pages long.

Voters cast their write-in ballots for, among others: Kelly Segula Gibbs, Snelly Gibbr, Schikulla Gibbs, Sheila Gibbs, Shelly Schulla Gibbs, Shelly Gibkula and, by someone who obviously never wanted the joy of using the machine to end, ShelleySkulaGibbsssss.

The name “Sekula” was spelled as Sektula, Sukla, Sequila, Sedoko and Sedoka (by puzzle fans?), Meklua, Sekluda and Shecola.

One voter couldn’t be bothered, just putting in SSG. (It counted.) Another, for some reason, entered Sekula Smith.

Another voter entered “Shelle Sekula Fibbs,” which might have been a hidden political message. Not so hidden, but counted as a vote just the same, was “Shelly DraculaCunt Gibs.” (We like to imagine the bipartisan discussion on that entry: “Well, they misspelled the first and last name, but that’s definitely a Shelley vote.”) [emphasis added]

Since soaring to a special election victory based on votes not marked as “DraculaCunt” or “Snelly Gibbr”, Shelley Hyphenated-Name’s abbreviated term in the House of Represenatives has gotten off to a rocky start, as I’m sure you’re aware: temper tantrums when she didn’t receive a personal visit from the President, driving away her entire congressional staff and demanding their (apparently routine) activities to be investigated, all on top of messianic pledges to solve illegal immigration and other pressing problems in her one-month term.  It all makes you wonder what colorful names the voters of TX-22 might write on their ballots in 2008 if the Gibster gives it another go (please, please, please).

(Hat tip to Wonkette.)