Updated: He Needs Flashing Lights and a Back-up Beeper
Culberson is in serious trouble for the first time since he started his decades-long camping trip on Capitol Hill. Culberson, known for being a smartass on social media and for his pet projects that do nothing for Houston, is being challenged by practicing attorney Lizzie Fletcher whose calm voice (completely devoid of nonsensical talking points) is giving Culberson a real run for his money. Culberson is a horrible congressman who has not yet been held to account for killing mass transit funding, ignoring our massive flooding problems (until a good part of his own district went underwater during Harvey), taking money from special interests like the NRA and big pharma and voting for their profits rather than his constituents.
Welp, ol’ John got a wake-up call this time. He’s finally realized that his idiotic support for Cheeto Jesus, and his own name brand deplorable ideas is not helping. Fletcher has taken the fight right to Culberson, shaming him for his own lame record of pet projects, voting against FEMA funding and infrastructure projects. She’s taken advantage of Trump’s unpopularity, successfully branding Culberson as a clueless partisan, completely out of touch with his own district.
Lizzie’s strategy is working. Culberson is backing away from Trump so fast that he needs flashing lights and a beeper tied to his backside. Perfect example – Trump is coming to Houston on Monday to infest the Toyota Center in support of Ted Cruz Grandpa Munster, and suddenly Culberson has an urgent need to attend a neighborhood meeting about flooding. Culberson has been smeared with the filth of Trumpland, but his problem is that it won’t wash off. Because of that, he’s trying to stay as far away from Trump as possible, while hurling invectives at Lizze like, “Lying Lizzie Fletcher”, and “Liberal Lizzie Fletcher” from dark money PACs trying to run interference for him.
Nothing cleans like sunlight. Finally the Dems have a bright ray of sunlight in Lizzie Fletcher. That’s why Culberson is cowering in the corner, afraid of his own record. If nothing else, the entertainment value is pretty high.
UPDATE:
There has been a question from one of our readers about how a toad like Culberson can be re-elected so easily. It’s called gerrymandering, which the Republicans have raised to an art form for the last 20 years. Gerrymandering either packs minority or similarly situated groups into one district, or more often spreads them out to dilute their voting influence. It’s classic voter suppression, taking away people’s Constitutional right to vote (or more accurately, makes voting useless). Culberson’s 7th district is one of the worst gerrymandered districts in Texas:
This district dilutes the urban vote, which tends to lean Democratic, by a torturous path through distant suburbs and even rural areas. According to fivethirtyeight.com, the 7th district gives the Republicans an 88% likelihood of winning. On average Texas gerrymandering is designed to for R+10, which means to win, you have to beat the Republican by 10% to overcome the gerrymandering advantage. Texas is one of the worst states for gerrymandering, born out of one-party rule and corruption since the late 1990s.
Have seen more Fletcher/Culberson ads on tv than all others combined
1El Jefe, let us not fail to mention the “wide load” signs that need to be attached to the snacilbupeR this season as they lie and reinvent themselves. While Donnie wraps himself in and disgraces the American flag, his down ballot disciples are slinging some whoppers. Still almost 3 weeks to the election, but “I’ll protect health care for pre-existing conditions” might make it to the top of their pile of bold faced lies. Criminy, their paw prints are all over lawsuits aimed to dismantle the ACA and specifically provisions protecting those with pre-existing conditions. If ever there is election reform, please let it include “if you signed it, you can’t lie about it” and “if you are on video saying it, you said it” provisions. And, any ‘super’ PAC lying for them to circumvent election laws needs to be fined out of existence, while the perps take a multiple choice “exam” of jail time and community service options.
2Someone from Harris County, please explain how a potted plant like Culberson repeatedly wins re-election?
3I will be casting my vote in this district for the first time this year and it will be for Lizzie. I crack up at the commercial claiming that she was hand-picked by Pelosi. As I recall, there were five Dems vying for the position.
4Micr – for many years the folks in Culberson’s district ‘would rather be red than dead’ – would vote repub. no matter how much the rep. worked against their interests
5@Micr
6TX has been so gerrymandered to the point of having districts that are 3 blocks wide and 300 miles long.
We have our own bit of entertainment in AZ. McSally who attached herself at the hip to Trump is trailing behind Sinema almost 5 and half points in the polls here. The polls probably don’t count people like me who refuse to give any information about their voting inclinations.
I suspect that more Reps are going to start distancing themselves from the oscillating fan in the oval office. But they’ll never grow brains or spines.
7@ Jane & PKM #2
I think there should be some kind of over sight and consequences to hold elected officials accountable, besides voting these lying sleeze bags out of office.
To me, Public office seems like the only job where people can cheat, steal, lie, get paid big bucks, give themselves raises, and get away with doing nothing for the very people that they work for.
8In private sector, you’d be out on your ear damn quick.
Papa, best wishes for AZ to contribute to snatching the Senate majority chair out from under old ‘itch McConnell. Senator Sinema (D-AZ), Senator O’Rourke (D-TX), and Senator Rosen (D-NV) sure would be right fine reading with breakfast on Wednesday morning, Nov. 7th.
9Jane&PKM:
Az is a very red state. But this poll is shows movement towards dems. We have a large Mexican/Hispanic population in this state. I hope they all get out and vote.
10OT heads up: via freedom of information ….Jeff Sessions was forced to release 178 pages of “no sh*t, Sherlock” truths that he’s been hiding in order for Trump to continue whining about his victimization by the evil left.
Law & Crimes summary re the docs: https://tinyurl.com/y82gzwzt
The legal doc: https://tinyurl.com/ycno7vk6
11Papa, there’s red and then there’s entrenched red – those who pull the trigger for an “R” even if it’s the likes of Roy Moore or Donnie. Those who are “merely” red and hoping for change perhaps can be persuaded, if they can be shown how & where they have voted against their own interests. You’re spot on that GOTV is the best option with young people and really anyone who isn’t the Fox Not the News demographic. Hope the two Ts (Tempe & Tucson) of AZ do it for you.
It hasn’t been that long since playing ball at ASU and remembering a few pockets of AZ liberals. There’s hope.
12What with gangbang brett joining the other 4 ideologues on the court thuglican gerrymandering will probably be decided to be a requirement.
13Next law might be only lifetime membership cards of Murder Inc ( nra) will be the only allowable voter id.
Culberson’s campaign has been push polling me twice a week since before the primary. After the primary it’s about once a week. I always tell them I am a conservation pro choice R who is voting for Lizzie because Culberson gave all Houston’s mass transit money to Dallas.
They just keep calling back and asking for me by name. I can hardly understand half the questions due to language problems.
14The caller id says SSI.
Ha! Hardly the most gerrymandered in Texas. Take a look at Austin which has been broken into 6 districts. We share our Representatives with Houston, McAllen, San Antonio, the western Hill Country, North Central Texas, and Waco and rural parts to its east. Travis County and Austin is probably the least represted metropolitan area in the entire country. Thanks, Tom Delay ( may you rot in a Hell hottub for eternity!)
15For the first time since I headed east on I-19 in January 2003, I’d be happy to live in my old house and vote against that son-of-a-bitch one more time.
16I’ll match North Carolina’s gerrymandering against yours any day! There’s one county that has to print a ballot for one person …the district looks like someone came down with a demitasse spoon to scoop this one poor woman into a district that belongs to a district that goes 2 counties north of her, as if a solitary Dem could tip the balance of power in Raleigh toward Armageddon!
17We are still living with Tom Delay and Alec and will be until the Democrats smarten up. Ol Tom played the Ds like a fiddle last redistricting. IIRC, that’s how we got Cruz. Wasn’t Ted’s first election due to a changed election date due to court proceedings from the way the lines were drawn?
18Just read that Sinema voted with demented donnie 62% of the votes. ( From AZ. Editorial endorseing her) and she is the D candinate????
No wonder the d’s are so inept when they push people who agree with the opposition more then they agree with the d agenda.
It would be nice to see the d’s stop pushing these thuglicrat wannabe’s who after helping trash the thuglican party have been boring into the D’s in an effert to trash them as well.
DWS and Rahm would be proud of these quislings undermining the D’s. Help secure their wingnut welfare.
19K, it’s the old half loaf question for sure. Will leave it to someone more familiar with AZ newspapers as to the veracity of that 62% rating. If true, for AZ voters the question remains do they want Sinema or Crazy Rubber Stamp McSally who is 100% with Donnie and the snacilbupeR agenda of destroying Medicare, social security, the environment, education and everything in the path of tax cuts for corporations and the .01%.
As with Manchin in WVA, he being the limp version of a Democrat or Patrick Morrisey, who is all for Drumpf tax cuts, the deregulating, and the draconian puke judges. I don’t know the answer to weak Democrats, but it’s a needed discussion. Or, North Dakota. Such as she is, Heidi Heitkamp is far preferable to her opponent who is a total wipe to Donnie and potentially more justices equally as repugnant as Kavanaugh.
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