Some info on DeLay's Heir Apparent.

[Jane Austin]

Here are a few tidbits about David Wallace, the mayor of Sugarland, who is assumed to be Delay's successor.

- - With thanks to Dearest Husband, whose curiosity caused him to see what he could find about Wallace.

Statement recusing himself from involvement in the Imperial Sugar
redevelopment project.

<http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/124/march-4-2005-press-statement-sugar-land
-mayor-david-wallace>

Juanita at dumpdelay.com:

People have asked if I’m disappointed that DeLay wasn’t indicted. Yet.
Yes, but not near as disappointed as Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace.
There’s a joke on this side of the county that if DeLay slips, check
Wallace’s pockets for a naked banana. Wallace wants to be Congressman so
badly that he sits around doodling “Congressman David Wallace, Cong. D.
Wallace, and David Wallace, Speaker of the House.” It’s become embarrassing
to see him trying to fill DeLay’s shoes while DeLay is still wearing them.


WaPo April 25, 2004
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41964-2004Apr25?language=printer>

the mayor is a Republican named David Wallace, who says of Sugar Land: "When
you drive around here, you get the sense that you're in Utopia."

Brick homes, clean streets, good schools, plentiful churches -- "it's the
typical white-picket-fence, 2.1-children atmosphere," Wallace says of Sugar
Land.

Here comes one now, the mayor, hurrying out of the church with his wife,
and Stein, seeing him, says that if anyone is an example of what God can do,
it's David Wallace. That two years before, Wallace was just about dead at
the bottom of a swimming pool and that the only thing that brought him back
to life was the power of people praying for him to live.

It's a story that Wallace will expand on later. He will say he remembers
floating on his back and looking up at a bird, and next it was eight hours
later and he was in a hospital. "I drowned," he will say. "When they found
me I was flat on the bottom of the pool. My lungs were filled with water. My
heart had stopped." He will say he was put on a ventilator, his wife was
told he would not survive, a prayer chain was begun, and "literally within
an hour of being found at the bottom of the pool I had thousands and
thousands of people praying for me." He will say that "in the medical
community, even to this day, they can't figure out why I lived," and then
make clear the single, indisputable reason he did: "The faith community."

[bryant69]

1. It will be interesting - presumably he's who Delay would like to see

succeed him - but I heard the guy who challenged him in his last primary is running too, and has a bit higher profile. Should be interesting.

Bryant
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[Webster Green]

2. I wonder if he met with the Taliban when they came to Sugarland

Michael Moore would probably know.

[TomInTib]

3. Hey, I drowned once. Maybe they will pick me.

Bay City, Texas, 1964.

Dead as a doornail, took me 18 months to relearn to do about 3/4 of what I could do before.

I'd be a natural.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Sugarland Texas is UTOPIA!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Just having Delay living there tells me THAT isn't true!:rofl: