Apparently defeated candidate Ben Streusand doesn't want to give up the thrill of campaigning.
After a grueling and expensive Republican runoff that likely decided who will represent the newly drawn 10th Congressional District, both candidates plan to keep campaigning. Winner Michael McCaul, who faces no Democratic opposition on the November general election ballot, said he will return to the campaign trail this fall to help other Republicans win congressional seats in Texas.Ben Streusand, who lost to McCaul in Tuesday's runoff, said he is contemplating a future political run and is telling his supporters that they can anticipate his campaigning for another office.
Streusand, a Houston mortgage banker, spent more than $3 million of his own money.
Streusand led in the March 9 voting, winning every county in the district but Travis. In the runoff, McCaul won every county except Lee. Besides those counties, the district includes all or part of Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Harris, Waller and Washington counties.
"Streusand realized that all the beautiful people would be with McCaul," said Republican political consultant Allen Blakemore. "He tried to run a grass-roots versus elected leadership race. "It failed, and credible endorsements ruled."
Streusand, who moved from The Woodlands to the Spring area to be inside the 10th District, said he will stay in the area and look for another political office in which he can push his conservative positions such as the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service.
If his business experience was in oil, not mortgages, Streusand would understand the significance of having drilled a dry oil.
Posted by Alan at April 15, 2004 12:34 PM