Hunt’s employer is under investigation by the Army Corps over its role in causing flooding in a suburban Houston community
Prospects for Wesley Hunt’s political future are getting dimmer by the minute.
Under investigation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its role in causing flooding in a suburban Houston community, Hunt’s employer is now begging for a Harris County taxpayer-funded bailout.
And Hunt’s public fear of a GOP primary runoff is growing by the day as his leading opponents take shots at him and gear up to spend ahead of a fast-approaching March 3 primary.
Loved by D.C. special interests and utterly unknown to Harris County Republicans, Wesley Hunt is getting boxed in by better-known and better-liked conservative leader Cindy Siegel. Siegel is touting hundreds of local endorsements, planting embarrassing questions about Hunt’s voting history at GOP forums and repeatedly calling attention to Hunt’s emerging flooding scandal.
Meanwhile, ultra-conservative Maria Espinoza just revealed she cut herself $205,000 check ahead of the primary. Espinoza isn’t just a so-called “Trump Conservative” like Hunt’s new favorite nickname for himself, she’s a wannabe member of the House Freedom Caucus who drew a healthy 17.8 percent in her 2016 primary against former Congressman John Culberson.
Don’t forget: Hunt kicked off his campaign by putting a convicted felon on his payroll, fundraised with controversial Harris County Commissioner Steve “People Enjoy Floods” Radack and failed to condemn President Trump’s false claim that Texans “made a fortune” from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.
From DCCC spokesman Avery Jaffe: “Wesley Hunt is loved by D.C., distrusted by Harris County Republicans and already disqualified among general election voters… if he can even stumble his way out of a flooding scandal and into the nomination.”
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