Steve Stockman
Stephen Ernest Stockman is an American politician who is a member of the Republican Party and a convicted felon. He served as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district from 1995 to 1997. In 2018, Stockman was convicted on 23 felony counts related to money laundering and misuse of campaign contributions. He was sentenced to serve ten years in prison, and was ordered to pay USD 1 million in restitution. His sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump on December 22, 2020.
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Stephen Ernest Stockman is an American politician who is a member of the Republican Party and a convicted felon. He served as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district from 1995 to 1997. Stockman ran in the Republican primary for the United States Senate in the 2014 election but lost to incumbent Senator John Cornyn. In 2018, Stockman was convicted on 23 felony counts related to money laundering and misuse of campaign contributions. He was sentenced to serve ten years in prison, and was ordered to pay USD 1 million in restitution. His sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump on December 22, 2020. He is currently in federal prison in Beaumont, Texas and was scheduled for release on December 26, 2026; but his sentence has been commuted to 2026. He currently serves as the chairman of the National Rifle Association (NRA) board of directors. In 1995, he wrote an article for Guns & Ammo claiming that the Waco siege had been orchestrated by the Clinton administration in order to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons. He wrote further that Bill Clinton would not only have fired Janet Reno, he would have had her indicted for premeditated murder. After the article was published, he called for a Congressional investigation into Alfred Kinsey’s 1948 study Sexual Behavior in the Human Male after learning that Kinsey had used data from the diary of a pedophile. He believed that the current theories of sexual education are not valid. They are not taught that it is a valid outlet for their emotions.
He also believed that sexual education is not a problem with the current allegations of sexual abuse. He later became a born-again Christian. In 1990, he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Houston–Clear Lake. He worked as a computer salesman in Friendswood, Texas. He ran again in 1992 for the House in District 9. In 1994, he was unopposed in the primary. In 1996, he won the primary with a landslide 74%. His Democratic opponent in the general election was, as before, incumbent Jack Brooks. In July a federal court ordered the boundaries of 13 Texas House districts to be redrawn because of racial gerrymandering, although Stockman’s district was barely affected. He won a plurality in the November election with 46%, forcing a runoff against Democratic Jefferson County assessor Nick Lampson. Since no candidate had a majority, there was a runoff election and, with the support of third-place finisher Steve Clifford, stockman beat Stockman to win the Republican nomination. In a major upset, he beat Brooks, who, had he won, would have become Dean of the United United States House of Representatives, by 51% to 49%. Stockman won the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. In 2010, he ran again for House District 9 in 1994, and again in 1996, and won the GOP primary. The Republican National Convention was held in Houston in August of that year, but no members of Congress attended.
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