Yes! The (get rid of) Pete Sessions campaign was featured in The New York Times on April 13.
Un-electing Congressman Pete Sessions is one of the Marijuana Leadership Campaign’s two priority projects in 2018, having recently formed the Marijuana Leadership PAC and, soon, a Super PAC.
As a reminder, Rep. Sessions (R-Dallas) is literally the only man preventing good marijuana legislation from being voted upon on the floor of the U.S. House.
“Democrats also have an excellent shot at victory in the 32nd District, a collection of Dallas neighborhoods and suburbs. Its Republican incumbent, Pete Sessions, has been in Congress for two decades, but the district has become more diverse and less white over those years, and his likely opponent, black civil rights lawyer named Colin Allred, should benefit from that.
“Allred is 34. Like Jones, he’s making his first run for office. Also like her, he has an unconventional professional biography. Before getting his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley, he played professional football for the Tennessee Titans, and before that he was a football star at Baylor University in Waco and at a high school in his Dallas district. Many of its voters remember watching him play.
Allred put it to me this way:
“My youth is not a bug. It’s a feature.”
“And more of them voted for Clinton than for Trump in the presidential election, a sign of the district’s evolution and an outcome for which Democrats were so unprepared that not a single Democrat challenged Sessions in 2016. This time around, seven Democrats entered the race. Allred got 38.5 percent of the votes in the primary, more than twice that of the second-place finisher.”