Houston Democrats

Tom DeLay at Nassau Bay Private Public Townhall Meeting.

Tom DeLay was the speaker for a townhall meeting held at the Nassau Bay City Hall across from NASA in Houston. The most telling event of the entire evening was the single round of applause he was given......when he left!

The event was sponsored by State Representative Martha Wong and Clear Lake Friends of Tom Delay, which seems to be a new organization possibly created to have the impression of being bipartisan. Given the list of supporters, the attendance was low with about 5 "of ours" inside as well as a hand full of protestors outside.

Even with a hand picked small audience there was no open discussion. All questions were screened by DeLay's staff and fed to him like fish to a hungry stray cat.

DeLay started by taking credit for solving the San Jacinto Rail problem which would have created a toxic rail through his district. (NOTE: DeLay did nothing for three years while his constituents and the city worked hard to stop the train in its track. Three years later, he took credit for it.)

He continued by taking credit for launching the Space Shuttle and landing it safely, as well as conducting the space walk. (OK. That is a bit of an exaggeration, but he is taking credit for funding the program, not like he did during the other 19 years in Congress)

He talked about cutting 30,000 civil service jobs (while talking to a group of people, many civil service employees) from the TSA (airport security).

When he was finished with his questions, he left, to great applause.

Protestors greeted those in attendance and DeLay waited till they left to enter the building. His security forces took pictures of us for their scrap book. The Nassau Bay police politely asked us to move to the street, but agreed we had the Constitutional right to assemble, as long as we didn't turn over any cars, which we didn't. So we stayed and they were very nice about it.

Reporting from District 22 as if I know what the hell I am doing........
John Cobarruvias