I smell a rat: Pat Fallon leaving Congress; or a bigger rat named Dan Patrick

The carpetbagging (you are) CD-4 Texas Congresscritter is not running for re-election.

OK, that of itself no big deal.

But wanting to get back his old Texas Senate District 30 seat?

THAT is a big deal. 

Especially since you've only been in Congress three years and change.

Look, nobody gets tired of Congress that fast. Half the true-blue term limits touters break their pledges, and most who affirm them become DC lobbyists.

Here's why I smell a rat. His explanation:

"At the end of the day, the decision came down to, If we lose Texas, we lose the nation," Fallon said in a brief interview. "It’s just terribly important to ensure that Texas has written a great success story and I want to keep moving that forward."

Yeah, sure. If Tex-ass is about to flip Democrat, you running for Drew Springer's seat ain't changing that.

This is clearly a lie. Now, what's the truth? J6 indictment pending? Trumpies have something on him? Doesn't want to serve with a possible second-term Trump prez?

It's not like he's rescuing SD-30 from RINOs, either. Carrie de Moor had filed to run against Drew, and she's as wingnut as he is, just a more urban one.

EXCEPT FOR one thing. I see NOTHING about vouchers on her issues page. Mystery solved, I think. And, if I'm right, Danny Goeb's going to be out beating the bushes again.

BUT? That scrambling will be increased in difficulty by Dr. Michael Burgess' announcement he wouldn't seek re-election to Congress. His Congressional district has a fair amount of overlap with SD30, and like Pat Fallon's son, lotsa candidates would prefer DC to part-time Austin, part-time Denton, Sherman, north Metroplex or whatever.

I'm sure that GOP inside baseball did not have anybody besides de Moor filing for this race before Springer dropped out, and they weren't sure if they could get somebody knew, and known to the county-level inside baseball people, in the race quickly. So, Patrick begs Fallon. Who has now spit the bit.

That said, on Fallon?

Seriously, from the first time I met the guy, I knew that I wouldn't trust him farther than I could throw him.

OK, we can now call Fallon a flip-flopper. He's running for CD-4 again after all, after his son talked him into staying in Washington.

Update: This gets better each time Fallon opens his yap. He now claims that Speaker of the US House, not the little Pink Dome, Mike Johnson, recruited him to stay by saying he'd personally get more done on his agenda in DC. Really? If true, was Fallon either too much a Dum Fuq to tell Goeb that, or, to riff on Teddy Roosevelt, as spineless as a chocolate eclair to not want to tell Goeb that? And, would Johnson really care that much about a semi-sophomore back bencher, unless he was that worried that Fallon would be replaced by somebody even more wingnut than him?

Update: On the Rethuglican side, here's a list of people who have filed. (It's statewide.) For SD30 it includes a Brent Hagenbuch. He is, or was, Denton County GOP chair. And, part of alleged shenanigans within the party last year. Sadly, Democraps still don't have a Google Docs page like that, at least not one publicly linked, nor do they link to the Secretary of State's webpage for approved candidates above the county level. I lamented this two years ago. Makes it harder to gin up public and media interest. Might be a small factor in why Skipper Gilberto Hinojosa still hasn't brought the SS Texas Democrat into a safe harbor of state control after all these years.

Update 2, Nov. 18: Rural Republican Housecritter David Spiller was one of four rural Rethuglicans to desert his peers on the latest House vote on vouchers, jumping in the Patrick-Abbott back pocket like a good mouse. Remember, if he decides to jump from HD68 to the partially overlapping SD30, you heard it here first.