You May All Go To Hell, Paul Chabot Is Going To Texas
After losing his Tennessee bid for the Congress, Davy Crockett angrily shouted, “You may all to go to hell. I’m going to Texas.”
And today we have Paul Chabot, who after losing a California congressional bid by 11 percentage points (it was his second such loss), packed it all in and moved to McKinney, Texas, which is in Collin County, north of Dallas.
Chabot thinks he’s in the holy land, and he wants to make money off of it. The LA Times went to talk to him.
“It’s like living a dream,” he said as he steered his golf cart down his cul-de-sac on a muggy afternoon recently, past large brick homes decorated with American flags and meticulously trimmed lawns. “You don’t see graffiti. You don’t see gang members, or police helicopters circling the neighborhood.”
So, he set up a company called Conservative Move and “Helping families move Right” is the slogan. Chabot is trying to get conservative Californians to move to Texas to … I dunno, have a better white life? Oops, I mean right life. (I gotta remember to call the dogs with my whistle.)
I just don’t know if Chabot picked the right place. Collin County went red the exact same time that Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Within one election, they went from voting 70% Democratic to 36% Democratic.
However, they are losing their edge.
In fact, Democrats are targeting Collin County next year because it looks like we can flip a couple of state house seats there.
Poor Paul Chabot. Democracy and Democrats spread like wildfire and Dallas County, which is decidedly blue, is right underneath him, so bless his heart, he is literally on the hot seat. Ironically enough, the Collin County Democratic Chairman said the latest Democratic gains are due to the “Californiazation of Texas.” Thanks, Chabot!
So, Chabot took it one step further. He recently open a new SUPER-PAC called Keep Texas Red.
Oh Lord, he’s gonna be sending us more Californians. After their first summer here, they will all go to Chabot’s air conditioned house and whine.
And if Chabot wants to follow in the path of Davy Crockett, he needs to remember how Crockett ended up.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
“After their first summer here, they will all go to Chabot’s air conditioned house and whine.”
I remember when I lived in Dallas. If the temperature was over 100 for more than three days in a row, like clockwork, some 2nd Amendment lover would get out the tool of his affection and blow his family away.
1We need Chabot over here in East Texas. Maybe he could recruit enough Californians to Tyler to get rid of Louie Gomert. That would be a gift not only to Texas, but the entire country.
2Home is where the hate is, I suppose.
3I was born in Dallas proper, grew up in an adjacent ‘burb. Some of my fondest memories are from the summer of 1980, when my neighbors and I cooked eggs on sidewalks, pickup roofs, and every other flat-ish surface exposed to the blistering sun. I worked as a peace officer, checking doors, bar fights, traffic accidents etc, two weeks of 11-7 shifts and never saw the temperature rise above 32 degrees F. It amuses me to hear a newby say “but 100 degrees in Dallas is OK cause it’s a dry heat.” Yep it is. Just like the inside of a convection oven. Dry. Hot. Yes I know it gets hotter in the Valley of the Sun routinely and yes I’ve camped on a glacier in Alaska with Boy Scouts. But Dallas is just never hospitable, environmentally speaking, except for about 72 hours in October and about 48 hours in March.
4This boy is dumber than gum stuck under the table.
5I think it’s funny he says he won the Rethug nomination for Congress in both 2014 and 2016, since California has had open primaries since 2012, in which the top two vote getters go on to run in the General election, regardless of party. So, they may have nominated him at their state convention, but it had nothing to do with the actual election process. I’ve never darkened the door of a Republican convention, so don’t know what goes on there, but I suspect there’s voodoo dolls involved, as that’s the only way a Rethug can win anything in California these days. Hillary even turned Orange County blue for the first time in 80 years.
Still, I’m sorry you’re the landing spot for the flight of our deplorables, but sure am giggling over the comeuppance they’re fixin’ to get at the hands of Texas Dems!
6I bet with this bunch there’s going to be a lot of soiled underwear with the first tornado warning.
7I would be ever so grateful if’n you find a place for Daryl Issa. He don’t need much and could always be fed through the bung-hole.
8Didn’t good ol’ Davy fight for Texas be cause Mexico had outlawed slavery? Didn’t he wind up at the Alamo be cause he was drunk?
And Davy didn’t look at all like Fess Parker.
9Okay, Ted, I will let you talk trash about Davy Crockett because he was basically invented by Walt Disney, but don’t ever say anything bad about William B Travis or Sam Houston. Them’s fighting words.
10I mean, why would anyone think McKinney, Texas is like heaven? It’s a nice enough place, but heaven?
11@Marge Wood
So I have some experience with McKinney. In truth, if you sought to give Collin County an enema, McKinney is where you would stick the tube.
12Uuhh, Ted?
Fess Parker played Daniel Boone. Don’t know how good the resemblance is.
(performs Google search)
Well, fry me in butter and call me an egg. Fess Parker played ’em both!
13I think he used the same wardrobe, too.
I’ve lived in Dallas for 30 years and can attest that it is NOT a dry heat. This summer, in particular, has been the muggiest on record. I’m originally from Utah and I know dry heat when I feel it. Up around McKinney way is getting close the areas of North Central Texas that see much of the worst of the hailstorms, ice, and thunderstorms (and their accompanying tornado watches). The last few Californian visitors I talked to here complained endlessly about the bugs. Heh heh, enjoy your time here, Ted.
14Meant to type Paul, not Ted …
15Treehugger:
Apology accepted for both mistakes.
(Some have suggested that ol’ Davy didn’t die the bravest of deaths.)
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