Primary challenger to Texas' Cornyn goes missing

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The Associated Press - By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Have you seen U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman?

The suburban Houston Republican and fierce conservative is mounting a long-shot challenge from the right against Senate minority whip John Cornyn but has made virtually no public appearances in Texas as questions mount about his campaign finances. Now, he's stopped showing up for his day job, too.

Stockman has missed 17 straight House votes since Jan. 9— including one on the $1.1 trillion omnibus federal spending package he promised on Twitter to vote against. That's unusual since, even though Stockman has a reputation as a Capitol Hill renegade, he missed only about a dozen major votes all last year.
The disappearance is mystifying for conservative activists who were hoping Stockman could help them land another blow against the GOP establishment this year. Texas has been a showcase for the right wing's power since firebrand Ted Cruz rose from back in the party's ranks in 2012 to become a U.S. Senate sensation.

http://www.charter.net/news/read/category/Us%20News/article/ap-primary_challenger_to_texas_cornyn_goes-ap

Another crook on the run?

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1. Call Rob Ford. Ask if he's got an extra guest who wasn't invited. nt

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2. Hiking

Davy Crockett National Forest

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3. Texas lost one of their head Teabaggers?

It looks like he showed up for the field trip to Egypt and then went AWOL again.

After first dropping out of sight, the congressman recently was spotted on a visit to Egypt as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — but where he's gone since then is unclear.

Stockman's staff won't say where he is. They have ignored more than six weeks of emails, telephone messages and social media posts from The Associated Press and other news outlets.

Maybe the can lure him out of hiding by offering him a taxpayer funded trip to Disneyland?

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4. He probably went

further south on the continent to see how the RW religion nazis are coming along on that "kill the gays" pogrom in Nigeria and that other country they've been lobbying for their anti-gay zealotry.