Mr. Farenthold Goes to Washington

The Weekly Standard has published a nice article on our new US representative from TX-27, Blake Farenthold. (I will spare you the duckie pajamas picture. God knows the Ortiz bunch showed it enough.)

I hope Blake makes us proud by holding the line on taxes and spending and not selling-out to K-Street special interests.

The Unlikeliest Freshman by John McCormack

The Weekly Standard. January 3 - January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16

When the 112th Congress is sworn in on January 5, there may be no better living, breathing reminder of just how big the 2010 Republican wave was than Rep. Blake Farenthold. Written off during the campaign as a longshot at best and a joke at worst, Farenthold ended up narrowly defeating Texas Democrat Solomon Ortiz, a 14-term incumbent who had typically won reelection by more than 20 points in a district that is now 71 percent Hispanic.

“For me, this was the race that put the exclamation point on the cycle,” says David Wasserman, who analyzes House races at the Cook Political Report. When Wasserman moved the race from the “likely” to the “leans Democratic” category in early October​—​a more competitive rating than other handicappers gave it​—​“both party committees told me I was nuts,” he says.

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