The personification of gall is a guy who runs 7th in a 7-candidate race and still talks trash. My maternal grandmother would have said that Jesse had more nerve than a government mule. I was nearly the only vote that ol' Jesse got in the special election in State Senate District 31. In fact, Jesse Quackenbush, R-Amarillo--seventh with 2.14 percent--received the smallest number of votes in this election. This is another example of my futility as a voter. In fact, I have dubbed my latest folly Jesse P. (for P*ss-ant) Quackenbush. Jesse P. must have a 50-gallon drum of ego hidden away somewhere. If this be (fair & balanced) dementia, so be it.
Waiting Game: Jesse Quackenbush, right, candidate for the Texas Senate District 31, visits Tuesday with Amarillo resident Sharon Pugh while waiting for election returns in the bar of Quackenbush's restaurant, Valentino's. - Photo by Michael Lemmons
I knew this was going to be a two-part race. Regardless of who wins the first round of the prima donna contest, I'll still be in this period.
I paid $2,500 for my ticket to this dance, and I'll be there till the last song is played.
[Quackenbush—speaking with the press—following the final vote count, January 20, 2004.]
Copyright © 2004 Amarillo Globe-News
No comments:
Post a Comment
☛ STOP!!! Read the following BEFORE posting a Comment!
Include your e-mail address with your comment or your comment will be deleted by default. Your e-mail address will be DELETED before the comment is posted to this blog. Comments to entries in this blog are moderated by the blogger. Violators of this rule can KMA (Kiss My A-Double-Crooked-Letter) as this blogger's late maternal grandmother would say. No e-mail address (to be verified AND then deleted by the blogger) within the comment, no posting. That is the (fair & balanced) rule for comments to this blog.