Lawyer Jessica Cisneros is filing for a recount in her primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), she announced Monday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1418302
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1418302
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This will please the folks I know in that district who want to see Cuellar out of there.
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I’m glad Cisneros is doing this.
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“…one of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress…”
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How I hope Cuellar loses.
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With Cuellar’s legal troubles, I don’t have hope we’ll keep this district in November.
However, I would prefer to losing with Cisneros than I would with Cuellar.
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do you expect the Republican who would replace him would support abortion rights? Or anything else Democrats care about?
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Cuellar is a Dem. His opponent is a Dem. And yes, she would support abortion rights.
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Not the screwball Cuellar!
The asshole Cuellar who, per Wikipedia, fired a pregnant staffer who had requested parental leave and subsequently suffered a miscarriage, and according to court documents, subsequently urged other staffers to help him discredit her.
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Sounds like the eephus from hell.
“The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.”
— Bob Eucker
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A screwball is like a curve that, from a leftie like Cuellar, breaks away from right-handed batters. It’s very hard on wrists and elbows, so it’s relatively rare to see a pitcher master it. Cuellar mastered it, and caused myriad right-handers to miss entirely or to ground out weakly. He was one of the best screwballers since Carl Hubbell, and it was a big part of why he’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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ATTENTION MSM: Cuellar and Manchin are not centrists they are conservatives.
Whomever wins the TX28 Dem primary doesn’t concern me as much as keeping the seat Dem in Nov.
Hi @joelopines, I am glad to find a fellow admirer of Mike Cuellar.
I don’t think, however, he is in the HOF. He got a late start on a big league career. Was with the expansion Astros, along with fellow Cuban exile Roman Mejias.
He lived in Puerto Rico during the off season during his MLB career, as did Tany (Tony to most Americans, but his name was Atanasio, so in PR and Cuba he was Tany) Perez and Grant Jackson, who married a Boricua during a Winter League Season and made his domicile in PR. Mike Cuellar pitched for the San Juan Senators in the PR Winter League. And none of us could ever understand how he could win 20 games in the Show, because he was never very impressive. I think he just pitched Winter League to stay in shape, so Spring Training would be less stressful.
Another one like that was Eduardo Figueroa, of the Angels then the Yankees. He pitched for Caguas, and we could never figure out how he started, let alone won in the Big Leagues. In Baltimore, pitching coach George Bamberger did a great job of making reclamation projects of Mike Cuellar, cast off from the Astros, and Pat Dobson, who had been either San Diego expansion…or KC Royals…or both. Cuellar and Dobson along with Palmer and McNally all won 20 games the same year.
Anyway, good to see a fan from my era.
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I was trying to remember, but the late 70 to mid 80s Astros had Joe Niekro, a knuckleballer on their starting staff. I remember reading about Pete Rose absolutely bitching about how unfair it was to play the Astros and to have to face Nolan Ryan’s fastball one night, Joe Niekro’s knuckleball the next, then the third night J.R. Richard, who threw over 100 mph. He said it totally fucked up his timing for weeks.
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Myself.
Your information about PR players reminds me of the time my brother and I were at Dodger Stadium in a client’s yellow-level (“field level”, I think they called it. $3.50 a seat all through the 60s) seats behind home, and we saw Roberto Clemente hit a Koufax curve outside and seemingly in the dirt. He one-handed that thing for a line-drive into the bleachers in left-center, about 400 feet away.
On top of being the best right-fielder I ever saw, he was one of the very best hitters. And a big-time mensh.
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Sorry for the delayed response. I was on a hiatus. 
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