God Bless Don Richardson

As usual, Bob Dunn at Fort Bend Now has the very latest news on TX-22. And, it's good news! Fun news! Folks, the Republican circus act in 22 is still going on under the Big Top! Step right up and enjoy the greatest show this political season! (as usual, provide your own popcorn) Don Richardson, largely an unknown candidate throughout this whole process, is in the race as a write-in. Whoops! Didn't he promise to withdraw his name after The One True Pink Candidate was chosen. Yeah, but his promise was based on Benkiser's word that FOUR MILLION dollars were coming into the district if everyone played nice and let Barbie be the only Republican write-in. Let me have Bob tell Richardson's story from here: But the next morning, he called an official at the RNC in Washington, D.C. “I said put it in writing” that $4 million would be available to the single GOP candidate running as a write-in against Lampson, Richardson said. He didn’t hear back. On Friday, Richardson said, he sent a fax to RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, to the RNC official to whom he’d originally spoken, and to Benkiser. “I said look, if you’ll put it in writing about the $4 million and refund my campaign expenses…I will withdraw,” Richardson said. “I haven’t heard from anybody. So my name is still on the ballot.” That $4 million is starting to sound like Wallace's Chuck. E. Cheese tokens he was so proud of. And, poor, pitiful Mayor Dave. He could still be in this thing except he is so dang gullible and succeptable to Tina Benkiser's charms. I'm REALLY curious why Don Richardson (always described as "Houston businessman") is listed as the ONLY write-in candidate for TX-22 on the Texas Secretary of State website. Supposedly, Shelley drove her Barbie car up to Austin today to turn in her stuff to be a write-in. Huh