Wonkette

After a valiant and hard-fought campaign, former pretend Congresswoman and full-time nutbag Shelley Sekula Gibbs lost to some joker named Pete Olson last night in a primary runoff for Texas’ 22nd Congressional district. Thus marks the close of another chapter in the fascinating political saga of a woman so beloved by her would-be consituents that one voter called her “DraculaCunt.” MORE »

So the first serious write-in Republican candidate has emerged in Tom DeLay’s old district. When I heard that “David Wallace” had thrown his hat into the ring, I was looking forward to reading dense, narratively experimental campaign literature, featuring erudite and increasingly loony footnotes. But apparently the David Wallace in question is the mayor of Tom DeLay’s home town of “Sugar Land,” which is not a magical realm of giant candy canes and chocolate rivers but is apparently in Texas somewhere. (City nickname, according to Wikipedia, which is never wrong: “The land of sugar.”) MORE »