"I'm going do it again. After the current congressman announced his retirement, conservative activists in the area encouraged Pete to move back to his hometown of Waco and run for this seat. I’m sorry that that’s something political world would not have done [because] they were career politicians," Swann said.Swann's lead campaign consultant is a fixture in Texas federal races, Chris Homan.
Instead, in October he stunned Texas Republicans by relocating to his boyhood home of Waco and launching a campaign for Flores' seat a few months after Flores announced his retirement. "From the beginning, Pete's fully cooperated, and there's been no further follow up," Mackowiak said.A leadership source who was not authorized to discuss the race on the record confirmed to the Tribune that Sessions' previous tenure would be reinstated if he returns to Congress. "During the 2019 recruitment season, Democrats and Republicans watched and waited to see if Sessions would launch a rematch. He was born there, he went to school there, he was in Boy Scouts there. Sessions, who led that 2010 march to House GOP domination, suddenly found himself in deep political trouble.In congressional-speak and within a delegation that has long prided itself on Republican unity, those are fighting words. "This lack of attention to his constituents shows us what we can expect if Pete Sessions is elected to represent the 17th district," Flores added.Those fundraising sums are relatively normal for an uncompetitive U.S. House seat. Instead, in October he stunned Texas Republicans by relocating to his boyhood home of Waco and launching a campaign for Flores' seat a few months after Flores announced his retirement.
Swann's haul includes $10,000 in donations from Flores' outgoing campaign and aligned leadership political action committee.
Sessions, a Republican who served in Congress since 1997, lost … This seat would prove to be at the vanguard of a drift of suburbs shifting from Republican strongholds to Democratic opportunity areas. Longtime Texas Rep. Pete Sessions lost his congressional seat on Tuesday to a lawyer and former NFL player. As of the weekend, she said on social media she remains asymptomatic.Republican operatives briefed on internal polling throughout the duration of the race say they are stunned with how well-known Sessions is in a new district. "Frankly, I don't want that kind of experience at all. Now that she is in the runoff, she is running hard against Sessions' record.She expressed frustration that Sessions is making hay over the vote, leaving out the election year and circumstances and leaving voters with the assumption that Swann voted for Clinton over Trump in 2016. I’m sorry that that’s something political world would not have done [because] they were career politicians," Swann said.Swann's lead campaign consultant is a fixture in Texas federal races, Chris Homan.
With a perception that the country's largest state Republican delegation was unified behind him, he was expected at some point to serve in the top tier of Republican leadership.A retired chief operations officer of a Waco ophthalmology clinic, Swann is so new to politics that she said she and her husband searched Google to figure out how to file to run for Congress. With a perception that the country's largest state Republican delegation was unified behind him, he was expected at some point to serve in the top tier of Republican leadership.A retired chief operations officer of a Waco ophthalmology clinic, Swann is so new to politics that she said she and her husband searched Google to figure out how to file to run for Congress.