Hey, have you heard about the challenger for Texas District 10 in the 2008 election that's barely one month away?

Yeah, me neither.

His name, apparently, is Larry Joe Doherty, and he's running -- I guess -- against Representative Michael McCaul.

I work with an Obama booster, here in District 10, who appeared completely unaware of McCaul's gerrymandered district. He remembered the time the Texas house all left for Oaklahoma, but wasn't really clear on why that all happened.

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government," quoth Thomas Jefferson. I can only assume the inverse is also true.

Support the Troops... just not here

Saw an item today that Representative Michael McCaul voted against a plan to ensure that leave for military personnel is guaranteed to be commensurate with their time served in Iraq -- hoping to leave the status quo of basically indefinite deployments at the discretion of the President.

Way to support the troops.

No Justice In Texas, according to Michael McCaul

Representative Michael McCaul has signed a letter agreeing that Western Texas District is little more than a kangaroo court, where guilt and innocence are decided in advance and the trials held in the Honorable Walter S. Smith, Jr's courtroom are shams of justice. I wonder how McCaul can stand to represent such an anti-American region of injustice and lies.

"No Blood for Oil," says Michael McCaul

Following a vote on HR 2956, which would require an American troop withdrawal from Iraq no later than April of 2008, Representative Michael McCaul is cited by Bloomberg.com as lamenting the effects such a withdrawal would have on "oil markets if U.S. troops left Iraq."

It seems strange that an elected Representative -- from Texas -- would state his "Blood For Oil" philosophy so directly.

Michael McCaul Richest Legislator in Texas


Representative Michael McCaul of our own District 10 is the richest legislator in Texas, according to a Scripps Howard study of the net worth of the Texas Delegation.

However, most of his wealth is actually derived from his wife and Clear Channel heiress Linda McCaul, pictured at right with her overflowing chests of priceless jewels and convertible bonds.

Michael McCaul on the Billion Dollar Boondoggle

It was reported today that Michale McCaul, Representative of Texas US District 10, is chairing the subcommittee responsible for writing a bill that would award 500 million dollars and billions of dollars in jobs to one lucky district to be home to a brand new bio-defense research facility. One of the contenders for the exclusive contract? Texas A&M University... which just so happens to lie just 20 miles outside of Texas US District 10.

This is one of those situations that has spin written all over it -- if McCaul manages to secure A&M as the site, well then hooray for him and his constituents, and all that free federal money and jobs coming into Texas, and never mind the fact that the whole project is a massive boondoggle at the expense of (Texan and other American) taxpayers.

On the other hand, if he fails to land the contract for Texas, then gee, he's kind of done all that work for somebody else's federal largesse, and he's not a terribly effective representative. Maybe that's why his quote is so wishy-washy: "Of course I'd love to see Texas A&M selected," he said. "But the fact of the matter is, we are staying out of the selection process." The chairman of the committee has no pull on where this project ends up? Sounds pretty lame to me.

I say, go go McCaul! Suckle at that sweet, sweet Homeland Security teat!

Michael McCaul secures key "profiteering bastard" voter demographic

In a move to solidify his appeal among the criminal small business community, Rep Michael McCaul of Texas's District 10 voted against a bill today that would criminalize price gouging and short-selling at the gas pump. The bill passed, 284 to 141, though it is unlikely to become law in the face of a presidential veto. "Price gouging and the rape of the American consumer is an essential feature of our capitalist laissez-faire economy," McCaul is not reported to have said, "ennobled by the likes of JP Morgan down through [ExxonMobil CEO] Rex W. Tillerson."

"Record profits for oil companies just haven't been record enough," he didn't add.