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...unachievable is the goal that it is usually the betrayals that make life interesting. (See John Dean and Nixon; David Stockman and Reagan; Judas and Jesus.) To be sure, there are people famous for loyalty, but they are often loyal to a fault, and a supposed virtue becomes pathetic, stupid, sometimes criminal. Rose Mary Woods entered history when she stood by her man's tape recorder. Hubert Humphrey probably lost the presidency when he stuck by Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam policies. Then there was always Mrs. Odysseus...
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Unemployed and living in a station wagon when he arrived in Texas in 1980, Stockman unseated 42-year incumbent Jack Brooks in 1994 with a shrewd one-issue campaign--opposing gun control--that resonated with the district's large gun-owning population. In Congress Stockman has drawn fire for such positions as calling the Waco raid on the Branch Davidian compound a ploy by federal agencies to build support for the assault-weapons...
...only will the new Democrat in this race have to beat G.O.P. incumbent Steve Stockman, she'll have to steal the Democratic vote from Nick Lamson, who originally won the primary...
Geraldine Sam, a kindergarten teacher from La Marque who still teaches full-time, says Stockman's conservative views are out of sync with the district. She has no lack of enthusiasm for her campaign, saying, "You can't put a price on grass-roots support." She has been endorsed by the Texas State Teachers Association and has the backing of the Coalition of Black Democrats and several Galveston city-council members...