Incumbent Barton Optimistic in CD-6 GOP Primary
Congressman Joe Barton’s campaign isn’t expecting too much trouble in his re-election bid: At last check, the 28-year incumbent had more than $1.3 million cash on hand, and poll numbers showed him sliding to an easy victory without a runoff in the largely conservative CD-6.
But he’s also got three Republican primary opponents and some rough patches on his resume that some political observers say could open the door for an ouster in the recently redrawn district, which spans Navarro, Ellis and Tarrant counties.
"My real opponent is me, in a sense. I'm a long-term ...
Comments (8)
Charles A. Siller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Barton said that holding BP accountable for it's damage to the Gulf of Mexico was extortion. I say it was enforcing the Pottery Barn rule.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Barton is probably the most embarrassing politician in this state, or Debbie Riddle or Louie Goehmert or... gee, so many...
Pun Nio via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This man doesn't deserve another term, if you listen to what he has said during his tenure. just because you admit faults doesn't mean you change.
Shawn Devereaux
Actually, David Chiu of San Marcos was the first Asian-American mayor in Texas but I guess being completely wrong is close enough for political hacks.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dump Joe!
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Until we reverse the illigal redistricting done by convicted felon Tom Delay in 2000, we will never get our state back...
BurningFeet
Voters aren't stupid? How is it that the words 'long term incumbent' and Joe Barton go together? Old Joe has been humiliating Texans since 1984 with such winners as the BP Apology and The Terror of the Twisty Bulb. His reward for such world class stupidity is reelection. Time marches on.
Adele Roberson
Joe Barton... the Jackass that told us Americans we should be apoligizing to BP.
I finished reading a long article in the Nation last night. The real damage to the Gulf States has been so covered up by BP it boggles the mind.
People are sick, their children are sick, their animals are sick.. two years later.
More people are getting sick as we speak. No amount of money will ever get those poor people back to where they were.
And BP is spending more on their damn public Relations TV commercials than they are in trying to help these people.
The BP oil spill was a crime against humanity. I do not hope anything good will happen to scum like Joe Barton for the last years of his deceitful, ignorant, greedy life. We are told, as voters, we get what we deserve.
How in the world could we possibly deserve the Republican Party in Texas.
We could not be that evil.