TX-19: Neugebauer Retiring

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Let's wait and see how the 19th manages to put in someone worse.

[Zioneer]

So he's a boring backbencher, right? I imagine this seat will just have another, slightly more conservative boring backbencher.

[All Along The Watchtower]

So he's a boring backbencher, right? I imagine this seat will just have another, slightly more conservative boring backbencher.

Well IIRC, he did call Obamacare a "baby-killer." That's something.

[PAK Man]

Actually, it was Bart Stupak:

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/national-politics/20100323-Texas-Rep-Randy-Neugebauer-defends-8020.ece

[136or142]

According to Ron Gunzburger at politics1.com, these are the potential candidates:

District 19:
[ Randy Neugebauer (R)* - Retiring in 2016. ]
Jodey Arrington (R) - Ex-Texas Tech Univ. Vice Chancellor, Ex-Bush White House Aide & '14 State Sen. Candidate
Carl Isett (R) - Ex-State Rep., Accountant, Iraq War Veteran & '03 Candidate
Susan King (R) - State Rep., Ex-Abilene School Board President, Nurse & Rancher
Cathy Landtroop (R) - Communications Consulting Firm Owner
Donald May (R) - Surgeon, Farmer, Tea Party Activist & '14 Candidate
Glen Robertson (R) - Lubbock Mayor, Ex-Ransom Canyon City Alderman, Ex-School Trustee & Businessman
Tom Sell (R) - Businessman, Ex-USDA Official & Ex-Congressional Aide
John Steinmetz (R) - Texas Tech University Regent, Ex-Lubbock County GOP Chair & Bank CEO
Carl Tepper (R) - Lubbock County GOP Chair, Property Redevelopment Executive & USAF Veteran
Victor Hernandez (D) - Lubbock City Councilman, Attorney & Army Veteran


Donald May (R) has already entered the race.

What is it with all these medical doctors who are Tea Party activists?

[Kingpoleon]

Looking at those, I like Arrington's experience.

[Skill and Chance]

According to Ron Gunzburger at politics1.com, these are the potential candidates:

District 19:
[ Randy Neugebauer (R)* - Retiring in 2016. ]
Jodey Arrington (R) - Ex-Texas Tech Univ. Vice Chancellor, Ex-Bush White House Aide & '14 State Sen. Candidate
Carl Isett (R) - Ex-State Rep., Accountant, Iraq War Veteran & '03 Candidate
Susan King (R) - State Rep., Ex-Abilene School Board President, Nurse & Rancher
Cathy Landtroop (R) - Communications Consulting Firm Owner
Donald May (R) - Surgeon, Farmer, Tea Party Activist & '14 Candidate
Glen Robertson (R) - Lubbock Mayor, Ex-Ransom Canyon City Alderman, Ex-School Trustee & Businessman
Tom Sell (R) - Businessman, Ex-USDA Official & Ex-Congressional Aide
John Steinmetz (R) - Texas Tech University Regent, Ex-Lubbock County GOP Chair & Bank CEO
Carl Tepper (R) - Lubbock County GOP Chair, Property Redevelopment Executive & USAF Veteran
Victor Hernandez (D) - Lubbock City Councilman, Attorney & Army Veteran


Donald May (R) has already entered the race.

What is it with all these medical doctors who are Tea Party activists?

Well, there's perhaps no better demographic to think of itself as the "deserving" rich.  They put in years of all-nighters to earn top marks, gave up ~10 years of their youth to rigorous advanced education, and took on several $100K of debt to make it happen.  Now, in their 30's and 40's, they earn 5-10X the US median income doing something that unambiguously adds value to society, but due to e.g. $250K educational debt, they certainly don't feel like media depictions of the rich.  They are also prone to interact with underprivileged groups in a way that reinforces negative stereotypes about them.  They also know that in other advanced countries with government-funded health care, physicians only make 1.5-3X the median income, so they have an extremely strong interest in opposing any more government involvement in medicine.  Is it any wonder that many physicians would conclude that life is mostly fair and they are the meritocratic elite?