Sid Smith is not your ordinary Congressional candidate. For one thing, he's 95. For another, his language might be enough to make even Richard
Nixon or Dick Cheney blush, but he's going through with it, anyway.
Given his age, Sid Smith's campaign slogan seems obvious: "At 95, who needs term limits?" The former newspaperman and real estate agent, who
scoots around his hillside home with the help of a cane, is running for Congress in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
His main goal is to boot from office Republican freshman Michael McCaul, who won the 10th District seat two years ago after the redistricting effort
led by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. A Democrat whose platform is essentially to work to defeat all Republicans, Smith is adamant about
protecting abortion rights.
With a beard and a shock of white hair, Smith is now a widower who peppers his conversations with curse words, telling a reporter "you can clean up
my language." His stories ramble into other stories, which drift into other stories and roll into still more stories, acknowledging "my mind is
still fairly good, but names begin to escape me."
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What else can I say? I'm thinking he's likely to win.
[edit on 2006/3/1 by GradyPhilpott]
