Who says that Tom DeLay is a damaged, unpopular incumbent? In the last three months, he has raised over $800,000The fund raising by DeLay, R-Sugar Land, is the best three-month tally in his 22-year congressional tenure.

He and Lampson won't square off until November 2006.

"He has an incredible level of support in the district and a large, active grass-roots organization, but we're going to need to keep this fund-raising pace to defend the district from the labor bosses, trial lawyers, and liberals who are backing Nick Lampson," DeLay spokeswoman Shannon Flaherty said.

I'll agree with Flaherty on this one. I've never seen the grassroots more supportive of DeLay in my time in this district.

Opponent Nick Lampson raised around $500,000 in two months -- $100,000 from political action committees. Lampson, a former congressman from another district whose major connection to the 22nd district is the fact that his grandparents lived here some time ago, is unchallenged for the Democrat nomination after the state and national power brokers ran off his only opponent. Gordon Quan, a popular Asian-American Houston city councilman who actually lives in the district was running even with Lampson in the polls, but was not favored by the power elite that control the Left's campaign cash.

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