And The Fire Marshall Didn’t Shut It Down Because Stockman is Hot
Okay, in the ever expanding list of Texas blubbering idiots that we amusingly call congressvarmints, Steve Stockman is a whole sub genus of his own.
He was in congress once before but got defeated because he was nuts. Seriously. Did crazy crap. Then along comes the Tea Party and suddenly Stockman, who has been homeless a few times, finds his home.
But even though he now gets a paycheck and mostly lays low, but sometimes not, things are not going well. The Houston Fire Marshall shut down his campaign headquarters / motorcycle shop / flophouse.
The headquarters had been housed since early 2012 in a former motorcycle shop along the Gulf Freeway. Campaign staffers and volunteers had been both working and sleeping there, even though the commercial building was considered unsafe for human habitation, according to Webster city records and an interview with assistant fire marshal Warren Chappell.
It appeared that 6 to 8 people were both living and working there. His campaign finance reports show he bought “bedding at WalMart for volunteers” in February of 2012.
His campaign is $100,000 in debt. He fired his campaign treasurer and never replaced him, which of course means he can’t raise money. However, last week he had a $1,000 a plate fundraiser in DeeCee with special guest Eric Cantor. I’ll give you two to one odds that Stockman introduces a bill to abolish the FEC.
So while Stockman racks up debt living high on the hog at $1,000 a plate dinners, his staff is living in a flophouse that is a fire hazard. With WalMart bedding.
Yep. The NRA endorsed Stave Stockman. Whadda guy.
In deed, what a guy. Which brings a question to mind, is there any chance that the next election might rid us of one more loose cannon?
1I can’t even think of anything to say here which for me is saying something. Since my forgettory works better than anything else, y’all just make noise about Steve regularly, okay? Where exactly is he being irresponsible and out to lunch? I mean, like who does he call his constituents? Houston, huh. I am sending this to a friend in Houston.
2We bought rocks and compost at the place next door and I had asked the guy if that was their sign. He looked down and just shook his head, no. I thought the building back there was some old biker hangout. I never knew! Although I did wonder how we were able to get compost at such a low price. I guess our guy just scooped up all the overflow from Stockman’s headquarters next door!
3Other than that Houston Chronicle story, have any Texas media reported this in any depth?
I haven’t seen a word in Dallas.
4OMG! This actually sounds a bit sinister. Has anyone checked the citizenship status of those eight (eight?!?!) people flopping in that old biker shed? Hey, ICE. Be nice! Check out Stockman’s shed!
5I would think that the fact that Stockman has been a Congresscritter AND been homeless ‘a few times’ would indicate he is too dumb, even for Congress.
6I did a search to find another ex-congress critter who had been homeless a few times and the search engine’s response? SAY WHAT?
If these Texas nitwits were prioritized as to political ineptness, where would this guy rank?
7I hadn’t thought of this in a long time but we had a guy who ran for Congress a lot of years ago. He was a nice guy but really, you gotta be more than a nice guy to be in Congress…don’t you? I forget his name but he won a third of the vote without even trying. He was a security guard. I am serious. He just liked/likes to run for office. He wanted to run for President, first, but several folks talked him out of it. He didn’t win as a Democrat so he switched parties and ran again. I think last I heard he was back in the Democratic fold. So some folks just never learn.
8Mind you, the 36th District is made up of Newton, Jasper, Tyler, Polk, Orange, Hardin, Liberty and Chambers… with a piece of southeast Houston/Harris thrown in for good measure. And guess where I live? Just on the wrong side of the line, previously part of Pete Olson’s district.
Which means he represents a mostly rural area with only those of us in Harris County having any chance of getting this yahoo defeated.
“Mommy, why do we have a village idiot representing us in Congress?”
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