Former Congressman and felon Steve Stockman, a Friendswood-area conservative who was convicted of 23 federal corruption charges and sentenced to 10 years in prison back in 2018, has declared himself rehabilitated and fit to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives.
This week, Stockman, once dubbed Texas’ “weirdest lawmaker”, entered a crowded field of candidates running to fill the recently redrawn 9th Congressional District, FEC records show. The district, served for two decades by Congressman Al Green, a Black Houston Democrat, was gerrymandered and relocated from its diverse neighborhoods and suburbs to encompass conservative turf that extends from eastern Harris County out to Liberty County.
Even before his convictions, Stockman was never politically popular or effective as a congressman who previously represented other swaths of southeast Texas. Texas Monthly once described him as “one of those kind of creepy politicians that other politicians try to keep at a distance just in case it might rub off on them.”
