Wallace tops survey in Fort Bend County
GOP voters were polled on who should replace DeLay on ballot
By ERIC HANSON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
SUGAR LAND - A survey of Republican voters in Fort Bend County showed Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace as the favorite to replace U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on the November ballot.
Wallace received 640 votes while state Rep. Charlie Howard got 292. Tom Campbell, an attorney who ran unsuccessfully against DeLay in the March primary, got 216 votes
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/3884259.html Wallace and DeLay know each other well. Wallace is on the board of directors of Rio Bend, a non-profit foster care community DeLay and his wife created. Wallace told me that he informed DeLay a year ago or so that he was interested in running for his seat. Baig insists DeLay himself has anointed Wallace as his successor.
And, as Time and Salon prominently noted, there’s the mayor’s connection to Houston home-builder Bob Perry, reported to be the single largest campaign donor in the state of Texas. Wallace works with, or for, Bob Perry’s son Will at Perry Properties LLC, and obviously has close ties to the Perry clan.
http://www.fortbendnow.com/opinion/1062/tom-delay-replacement-candidates-bump-up-against-the-perry-factor "I have relocated my business office to Perry's office in Sugar Land in early January." David Wallace
http://www.ci.sugar-land.tx.us/tools/np/program/view.asp?ID=11139