Pete Sessions, Allen West Could Face Off in Epic House Primary

[brooklynite]

National Journal

Pete Sessions and Allen West, two former House members with national profiles, are seriously considering making their political comebacks in the same suburban Dallas congressional district.

Neither is likely to defer to the other, setting up the prospect of a bizarre House primary between an establishment-aligned former Republican campaign chief who lost the seat last year and a tea-party firebrand who moved to Texas after being ousted from his Florida district in 2012.

The matchup, in a seat potentially critical to GOP hopes of winning back the majority, is far from certain but could begin to formulate by next month. Sessions indicated in an interview Monday that he plans to run but isn’t ready to formally launch a campaign.

"Several things have to be put into place for the party to be able to support a good candidate," he said. "I fully anticipate I will be that candidate, but I’m not ready to announce that right now."

In an interview last week, West said that he receives daily entreaties from supporters to run for Congress and implied he had come to a decision. But he was secretive about his plans and said only that he would reveal them in early July.

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1. I hope Allen West never gets elected to anything..

He is so extreme on issues, I hope he loses all elections.
I do not know a lot about Pete Sessions except that he is a republican.

[brooklynite]

2. Sessions was the former (Republican) Chair of the House Rules Committee...

...he lost to Colin Allred in November.

[MagickMuffin]

5. That's all you need to know about Sneaky Pete

As of August 2017, Sessions voted with his party in 98.8% of votes so far in the current (115th) session of Congress and voted in line with President Trump's position in 97.5% of votes.

Earmarks
In 2008, he added a $1.6 million earmark to an appropriations bill, for dirigible research. The earmark benefited a Chicago company, Jim G. Ferguson & Associates, which had no experience in government contracting or dirigible research. Former Sessions aide and convicted felon Adrian Plesha was a lobbyist for the firm.[18][19]

In September, Adrian Plesha sued Jim G. Ferguson & Associates for non-payment of fees and expenses connected with his lobbying effort on their behalf.

Cannabis
Sessions opposed allowing states to determine their own policies regarding the legality of cannabis and the regulation of legal cannabis markets. As chairman of the House Rules Committee, he had repeatedly stifled proposed amendments relaxing federal laws against cannabis, including an amendment that would have allowed medical marijuana access to veterans in states where the drug is legal.

Military and police
Sessions was a supporter of the 1033 program, under which the U.S. military transfers surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies; the program is controversial because of its association with militarization of police. In 2015 and 2017, Sessions cosponsored Republican legislation to reverse the Obama administration's restrictions on the 1033 program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sessions

I hope our current Democratic congressman Colin Allred can clean these two jokers clocks.

[sandensea]

3. Go West!

And here's why:

Allen West is a certified psychopath, a fascist, and probably has more vices than you can shake a stick at.

However, the same thing pretty much applies to Pete Sessions - with a major difference:

Sessions disguises his true self pretty well, and knows how to come off as a "regular family man" (which I'm pretty sure he's anything but).

West, on the other hand, is clownishly insane - and therefore lacks any credibility outside his narrow circle of extremists.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Allen West -- Is that the Dilbert impersonator?