quote:"I do everything myself," said Becky Whetstone, who has declared her candidacy as an independent aiming to unseat Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, the Democratic incumbent who happens to be her ex-husband.
No matter that Whetstone, 45, a former advice columnist, does not have a chance of winning the race, according to political analysts here. What has ignited the firestorm of interest in her candidacy is a spectacle whose script, for all appearances, seems tailor-made for daytime television: an allegedly wronged woman bent on exposing her powerful husband and bringing him down -- or at the very least humiliating him in public.
In a flurry of interviews and national television appearances, Whetstone has painted Gonzalez as a control freak who dislikes children and pets, a spendthrift who cannot manage his own financial affairs and a bully with an explosive temper.
She says she will divulge even more in a forthcoming book, tentatively titled "The Congressman's Wife." But she insists that revenge is the furthest thing from her mind.
It's the last line of the quoted section that raises this from farce to High Comedy.
Dagonee
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
"Don't Mess with Texas"
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Isn't the upshot really more like "Texas politics is good for humorous anecdotes?"
[ February 17, 2004, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
It has to be good for something.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I notice you're standing far back from Texas as you say that.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:"Don't Mess with Texas"
I think the real moral is:
"Don't Mess with Texas Women"
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
kat, what's the worst thing Texas could do? Elect another president at us?
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Sign seen in Texas:
VOTE REPUBLICAN/ KEEP BUSH IN WASHINGTON We Certainly Don't Want Him Back Here!!!
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