Steve Stockman's sadistic hellhole of a campaign HQ gets shut down by city

[Indy Texas]

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) presents himself as an advocate for fiscal responsibility and effective management of government. Despite this, he can't seem to keep his reelection campaign fiscally solvent and was operating his campaign out of a derelict former motorcycle shop that had been deemed "unsafe for human habitation" by city officials.

The Stockman campaign headquarters, located in a Houston suburb, were next door to a used hot tub dealership and a strip mall and the owner had lent Stockman the space rent-free.


Stockman even had his campaign staff living at the facility.

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It doesn't seem Stockman campaign workers can expect much better for his 2014 campaign, since it is more or less broke and in debt.

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[Brittain33]

How is this guy not getting primaried?

[free my dawg]

How is this guy not getting primaried?

R-Texas

[publicunofficial]

How is this guy not getting primaried?

From the left? In Texas?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

From the left?

From the anywhere would do...

[DC Al Fine]

From the left?

From the anywhere would do...

Really, it shouldn't be that hard for a Tea Partier to run on something like "Stockman says he's a conservative, but he can't even get his campaign in order!"

[Sopranos Republican]

LOL

[Brittain33]

It wouldn't be hard for any competent Republican with a campaign account to take the seat, I would think.

[The Vorlon]

Of the 435 seats in the House, maybe, and this might even be a stretch, there are 75 that could be considered "competitive".

The GOP has about 200 seats that are pretty much invulnerable, the dems have about 170 or so.

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

[Brittain33]

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

True. It's been disconcerting to see the Kucinich/Cindy Sheehan wing of the Democratic Party rise to dominance in tandem with the Tea Party wing of the GOP... we've had some truly brutal senate primaries on the Dem side because of the purity chase.

[Kevin]

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

True. It's been disconcerting to see the Kucinich/Cindy Sheehan wing of the Democratic Party rise to dominance in tandem with the Tea Party wing of the GOP... we've had some truly brutal senate primaries on the Dem side because of the purity chase.

[Maxwell]

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

True. It's been disconcerting to see the Kucinich/Cindy Sheehan wing of the Democratic Party rise to dominance in tandem with the Tea Party wing of the GOP... we've had some truly brutal senate primaries on the Dem side because of the purity chase.

Which Senate primaries, may I ask?

[Nutmeg]

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

True. It's been disconcerting to see the Kucinich/Cindy Sheehan wing of the Democratic Party rise to dominance in tandem with the Tea Party wing of the GOP... we've had some truly brutal senate primaries on the Dem side because of the purity chase.

Which Senate primaries, may I ask?

Sarcasm sometimes is hard to detect on the interwebs, but I don't think it was here.

[Smash255]

It wouldn't be hard for any competent Republican with a campaign account to take the seat, I would think.

Since when do Republican Primary voters in Texas nominate anyone competent??  They love the bats*** crazy, and its pretty hard to out bats*** crazy Steve Stockman.  Perhaps Louie Gomhert can pull the out bats*** crazy Stockman off, but he is already in Congress.

[free my dawg]

It wouldn't be hard for any competent Republican with a campaign account to take the seat, I would think.

Texas loves electing crazy people to Congress like Louie Gohmert. I don't think they really care about a normal candidate.

[Indy Texas]

It wouldn't be hard for any competent Republican with a campaign account to take the seat, I would think.

Since when do Republican Primary voters in Texas nominate anyone competent??  They love the bats*** crazy, and its pretty hard to out bats*** crazy Steve Stockman.  Perhaps Louie Gomhert can pull the out bats*** crazy Stockman off, but he is already in Congress.

The caliber of Texas Republicans dropped significantly after DeLay forced through the 2003 redistricting. There are still some islands of sanity left, mainly at the state/local level - people like SBOE member Thomas Ratliff, State Sen. Robert Duncan, State Rep. Sarah Davis and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert. But at this point, other than that, you can choose from Tea Party fundies or unreconstructed Dixiecrat turncoats.

[Alcon]

Campaign workers sleeping in a campaign office?

With combustible yardsigns stacked everywhere?

God, that's terrible, and I've certainly never heard of such a thing happening ever before.

(I do wonder why the hell his staffers are working that hard, though.  R-Texas with massive debt.  What're they getting out of it, besides free bunk beds?)

[pbrower2a]

Of the 435 seats in the House, maybe, and this might even be a stretch, there are 75 that could be considered "competitive".

The GOP has about 200 seats that are pretty much invulnerable, the dems have about 170 or so.

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

That's the problem. We are set up for extremism, corruption, incompetence, gridlock, and cronyism in the House of Representatives.

[Brittain33]

It wouldn't be hard for any competent Republican with a campaign account to take the seat, I would think.

Texas loves electing crazy people to Congress like Louie Gohmert. I don't think they really care about a normal candidate.

True, but what gets me is that Stockman doesn't clearly have a competent election machine, so what's stopping the next Louie Gohmert from running a whacko bird Tea Party campaign against Stockman from the right? It seems like Stockman would collapse easily.

[MalaspinaGold]

It wouldn't be hard for any competent Republican with a campaign account to take the seat, I would think.

Texas loves electing crazy people to Congress like Louie Gohmert. I don't think they really care about a normal candidate.

True, but what gets me is that Stockman doesn't clearly have a competent election machine, so what's stopping the next Louie Gohmert from running a whacko bird Tea Party campaign against Stockman from the right? It seems like Stockman would collapse easily.

Because he is already a whacko bird Tea Partier.

[minionofmidas]

Campaign workers sleeping in a campaign office?

With combustible yardsigns stacked everywhere?

God, that's terrible, and I've certainly never heard of such a thing happening ever before.

(I do wonder why the hell his staffers are working that hard, though.  R-Texas with massive debt.  What're they getting out of it, besides free bunk beds?)

These are probably not people that anybody sane would offer a free bunk bed to.

[Joe Republic]

Pictures have emerged:

[badgate]

This is like the set of where all those hillbilly methheads live on True Blood.

[Zioneer]

Of the 435 seats in the House, maybe, and this might even be a stretch, there are 75 that could be considered "competitive".

The GOP has about 200 seats that are pretty much invulnerable, the dems have about 170 or so.

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

The House Dems aren't pandering to the whacky birds.

[IceSpear]

Of the 435 seats in the House, maybe, and this might even be a stretch, there are 75 that could be considered "competitive".

The GOP has about 200 seats that are pretty much invulnerable, the dems have about 170 or so.

This is why we have the vast bulk of the House, on both sides, is pandering to the whacky bird crazy factions of their own party and so few running in the political centre.

The House Dems aren't pandering to the whacky birds.

Yeah seriously. For every one Alan Grayson and Dennis Kucinich you have 10 Bachmanns/Stockmans.