Texas redistricting has yielded a new congressional district and a hope among many of those who know the history of this area that Brian Babin will re-enter the public arena.
Former Woodville Mayor Brian Babin ran for U.S. House District 2 in 1996 and 1998 and like every Republican that ran for office around here at that time he lost. But he won both primaries in a crowded and impressive field of candidates.
“Had Brian been elected in 1996 many of those who know him felt he might have been the best conservative congressman in the entire country. He is impressive on all counts. Every Republican back then was talking about faith, family, and conservative values, but nobody was a more perfect example than Brian and his family,” said former Liberty County Republican County Chairman Richard Pegues.
Charlie Wilson and Jim Turner won those races over Babin simply because back in that day if you wanted to win you had to run as a Democrat. Babin was too principled to run in any party but the one that he fit in best. But now the new congressional district, U.S. House District 36, will be an easy win for Republicans. And no one running will be more qualified or more deserving than Babin.
“My Dad was dying of cancer and house bound and was so impressed by Brian that he asked to be driven to the polls. He was very sick but the reason he told everyone that came by the house that day that he went down and voted for Brian Babin was because he believed there was something special about him,” Pegues said.
Babin is a Woodville dentist and we are asking him to make one more run. Texas's 36th Congressional District will be located in southeast Texas and will include all of Newton, Jasper, Tyler, Polk, Orange, Hardin, Liberty, and Chambers counties, plus portions of southeastern Harris County. If he runs, we hope all of our readers will look for a chance to meet him and his family. They would give us the best representation in the country.
5 comments:
He has my vote!
I remember him. His family sang the national anthem at one of Liberty's ball games.The Democrats had a cat because they were so use to only their candidate getting such exposure.
Brian Babin and three other Republican primary candidates were all better than Turner. But Turner was from the donkey party and that is all that mattered back then.
To be a Republican back then you had to be fearless. I was a precinct chairman back then and looking back if people like Babin had not kept the Republican party alive back then.......... we would not have won even when Obama was elected.
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