Sing Along With Shelley! Corny Is Good!

I am positive you are going to think I made this up. But, no, I didn't. I have links and everything. A reporter from the big city of Los Angeles sailed into Clear Lake and experienced first hand the oddity that is Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. You remember I told you about how I saw her at the Shrimp Fest accosting people and telling them that they had to vote for her twice, holding up first one finger, then the other while she told them about the special and general elections. I knew there was a detail I omitted. She did this in a SING SONG voice.

Well, it just gets worse. The intrepid reporter visited a breakfast meeting in Clear Lake recently, featuring Shelley. I wonder if she was dressed like scrambled eggs? I digress. I'll let Lianne Hart of the LA Times give you her eyewitness account:

The women, meeting for breakfast in a hotel banquet room, looked up from their scrambled eggs as Sekula-Gibbs launched into a jingle to drive home the point: "Vote twice for Shelley," she sang to the tune of "Roll Out the Barrel." "Special and then write her in."

The candidate motioned for them to join her in song, and most did, a few clapping in time. "It's corny, but corny is good," Sekula-Gibbs said.

OK, I'll pause while you sing that to yourself. Because I know that's what you are doing.

I can't help but offer substitute lyrics:

"I'm a freaking idiot, with absolutely no fashion sense."

So, corny is good in TX-22? I'd be alarmed and embarrassed that this has gotten out about our congressional district, but I have to remind myself that Shelley has been tasked to keep the TX-22 Republican Circus Act alive sometime through mid-December when the special election runoff takes place. Some call her a sacrificial lamb, but perhaps "clown" is a more appropriate term.

Commenting on the challenge of the e-slate etch-a-sketch thingy, Shelley says (come on, say it outloud with brilliance in your voice - like a dermatologist):

"This is a very educated district. People will get it," Sekula-Gibbs said. She may be the late-starting write-in candidate, but "people know who I am. We're rapidly making up ground…. We'd better, because it's a short time frame.

I must be a super, hyper-educated individual, because what I get is that Nick Lampson will be elected my congressman on Nov. 7th.

But, for fun, let's go ahead and encourage Shelley to continue thinking corny is good. I mean, hello, I have popcorn popping and everything.

Oh, and thank goodness not everyone in Clear Lake embarrassed us, during the beer barrel polka sing-a-long:

"The whole thing is crazy," said Judith Blanchard, a lawyer at the women's breakfast meeting who was sitting at what she called the "nonsinging table." "The Republican Party tried to do an end-run around the law and it backfired.