Chris Elam has posted an interview with Shelley Sekula-Gibbs conducted at the State Republican Convention, where Dr. Sekula-Gibbs is touting her Congressional candidacy. The Doctor-Councilwoman seems determined to get the message out regarding her recent Council vote on the day-labor site:
CE: Do you feel that the general public is catching on, and paying attention to this race?
SSG: I’m hoping to make that happen. I think that the news media outside of your (bloggers) efforts have not been as focused on it. As a matter of fact, I’ll tell you what’s been going on in City Council is that I think people really don’t know about, is that we’ve been working to not fund a day labor site in the City of Houston and this is a failed program that five were telling us that it was wanted by neighbors to get illegals off the streets, to get day laborers off the streets. But it failed.
It passed. But it shouldn’t have. Because it was a bad thing. We had seven votes. And if it is tied 7-7 the item does not pass. But there was a lot of pressure put on one council member to vote for it, Councilman Khan. And I think that the Mayor put a tremendous amount of pressure on him.
Elam’s full interview is located here.
As critics of Sekula-Gibbs on Council have pointed out, the Doctor-Councilwoman supported the day-labor site in the past, before becoming a Congressional candidate.
