Former Dallas Reporter Not Fairing Well in Run for Congress

Former WFAA (Dallas) Investigative Reporter Brett Shipp quit the station to run for Congress. 

That might not have been a very good move. 

In voting held yesterday in Texas and with 473 of 860 precincts reporting, Shipp was in third place in a crowded seven-candidate Democratic primary field for Texas 32nd Congressional seat. Lillian Salerno, a former deputy undersecretary in the Department of Agriculture, had a slight lead over Shipp.

Salerno has 18 percent to Shipp’s 17 percent of the vote but Colin Allred, a former Tennessee Titans linebacker who worked as General Counsel in HUD during the Obama Administration, had 40 percent.

"Now that our campaign has advanced to the run-off, we will continue to take our message directly to the voters and we will continue to listen to the North Texas families who are ready for change," Allred said. "After years of failed representation by Pete Sessions, this district is ready to send a new voice to Congress."

As for Shipp, his political dreams may have sailed. 

H/T Star-Telegram

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