I got several interesting phone calls today.

One came from a GOP leader from the area . Another came from an elected official who is not seeking the CD22 nomination. The third was a return of my call to an old friend from years gone by who now works in Washington. All were "off the record" calls, so I cannot tell you who they are. However, I can tell you that the content of those conversations filled me with a bit of hope, and lead me to moderate my opposition to plans to run a write-in for the CD22 seat.

Suffice it to say that I now know that there will be a meeting of CD22 precinct chairs at a central location sometme soon. We will have the opportunity to freely weigh-in on the course taken by the Party, including whether or not we should support any write-in candidate, as well as who we should support if we do. I was told that while my initial suspicions of a plan to bring us a candidate to affirm was more or less correct, a number of individuals (some who were a part of the meeting and some who were not) raised serious objections to that plan and pushed for this more open, grassroots-oriented plan.

This means that I did one of my commenters a grave disservice below because I was operating on obsolete/incomplete/inaccurate information. I'd like to publicly offer my apologies to Kathy for questioning her veracity on this matter.

I'd also like to add that, while I still have reservations about the possibility of any write-in candidate succeeding, I would be more than willing to support any decision that is not a mere rubber-stamping of The Virginian's hand-picking of a successor -- with the exception of a particular elected official from Fort Bend County whose personal, business, and political history contains too many skeletons for me to stomach.

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