The 22nd District becomes the first House seat being defended this year by the Republicans in which the Democratic nominee is rated as having a clear edge. ~CQPolitics.com

Corruption does eventually catch up with everyone.  If the GOP was able to hold onto Cunningham’s seat in San Diego in the special election and will probably still hold it in November, they may lose DeLay’s old seat in Sugar Land because of the somewhat baffling choice for their write-in candidate: Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, M.D. 

Sekula-Gibbs doesn’t sound like a name that’s easy to remember–I have almost forgotten it in the course of writing this sentence.  As if Sekula wasn’t a tricky enough name for folks to remember, she just had to have a hyphenated name, didn’t she?  (I wonder if the modern hyphenated surname phenomenon, besides being a rebellion against patriarchal traditions, isn’t just a little bit of an attempt to have children with aristocratic-sounding names.)  People have a hard enough time getting the spelling of my last name right (you have no idea how many times people forget the ‘i’)–what are the odds that “Sekula-Gibbs” will be any easier?

This is too bad, because Dr. Sekula-Gibbs actually seems to be very bright and a decent candidate in her own right who would probably have made a good representative (anything after DeLay would have to be an improvement, I suppose), but as it is she may go down in the books as the write-in candidate who failed to hold an otherwise safe GOP seat that might ultimately cost the party control of the House.  O Stupid Party, we salute you!