Texas Repubs eating their own: want former cross-dresser out of race...

[Richardo]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8363062.htm?1c

Texas House candidate, onetime cross-dresser says he won't bow out

BY JAY ROOT

Knight Ridder Newspapers

AUSTIN, Texas - (KRT) - His family made a fortune on men's work clothing. But it's Sam Walls' apparent fondness for women's apparel that is dividing the Johnson County Republican Party.

Walls, 64, is in a runoff against Burleson, Texas, real estate broker Rob Orr to succeed conservative icon Arlene Wohlgemuth in the Texas Legislature. As a leading businessman, former Republican Party chairman and major hospital benefactor, Walls seemed the odds-on favorite to win the April 13 contest for House District 58.

But then pictures of Walls in women's clothing - several of which were provided to the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram" - began circulating late last week around Burleson and Cleburne, rival towns on opposite ends of the district.

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an elder statesman in the Johnson County Republican Party, met with Walls last week to discuss the photos and was assured there was nothing more than "cross-dressing" involved.

And as far as <GOP Treasurer Roy Giddens, Jr.> is concerned, wearing earrings, a wig and high-heel shoes does not preclude Walls from becoming an excellent state representative.

"I don't have a problem with cross-dressing," Giddens said. "There are lots of them. People think J. Edgar Hoover was one of the greatest Americans that ever lived. He was a cross-dresser."


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Good one, Giddens! :eyes:

[NoPasaran]

1. Damn! They don't show any of the pictures

But chances are that Walls would look hotter than Arlene Wohlgemuth anyway.

[David__77]

2. J. Edger Hoover was depraved, but not because of his panties.

That praise of Hoover caught my attention--he was a despicable and perverse in his disregard of rights. That he was homosexual and that he cross-dressed is irrelevant.

This is a funny story though!