Stockman has been around forever. At one time in 1993 I met the man in person when he showed up at our little gathering of about 12 to 18 of us holding a gun-rights meeting. He was an unknown with no backing or financial support. He got elected during that Newt Gingrich Replublican sweep of 1994. But, he only served one term and got booted (he did something wrong, I don't recall what it was since he wasn't in my district) . His constituents voted him out and put Democrat Lampson in his place instead. And so now, fast forward 18 years later, and he got himself relected again a couple of years back doing the same replay of hardly a dollar in his pocket and having to run his campaign out of a friends bathroom..(...or was it a friends garage.?) Well now he has a scandal in the news once again. A scant reported $32,000 in his cauffers to run against Sen Cornball's $7 mil isn't very impressive either. So after all these years in and out of politics, he hasn't yet figured out how to make enough friends &i influence to grow good name support and backing. Nor does he seem to ever have any of his own money to invest in himself.
I look back to 1993 when I was much younger and naive person, and me and the handful of gun rights activists buddies supported him as well as some other unknown candidates like Judge Mike Mansfield (who was homeless in his early years and slept with his pet dog in his car), and Judge Lon Harper. ( who was later brought up for judicial ethics violations for cleaning his pistol at the bench while trials were going on, and being video taped working 2 hours a day and going home) Some of these fringe type guys are NOT an ultra conservative Ted Cruz (who I highly respect), and more remind me of that 84 year old Lyndon La Rouche guy who perpetually runs for president. (Yes, that Lyndon Larouche..... the nutcase that always has his supporters gathered in front of the GRBrown GunShows with a poster of Obama wearing a Hitler Mustache.)
Sorry if I sound cynical, but I don't think Stockmanm has progressed much since those early days, and he really comes across to me as a drifter and a loser. BTW,....he would tell you that he is originally from Michigan where at one time he really was homeless and a drifter. He still reminds me of that same guy today all these years later that has never built a solid foundation.