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6’3″ 238lb, What about his LSAT scores?
……He wasn’t drafted by a professional football team. Colin Allred https://www.colinallred.com/ tried out for the Tennessee Titans and earned a job. He deferred admission to law school. He was with the Titans for five years. During his two best seasons, he made 19 tackles each year — a more than respectable record for an Outside Linebacker.
……Colin Allred deferred law school admission a second time. After he received a career ending injury — playing against the Cowboys in his home town of Dallas, he reapplied to the same law school. He was admitted again to the University of California at Berkley Law School, Boalt Hall.
……Colin Allred worked hard as a football player. He compared the mental preparation in football to the hard work of law school. An undergraduate and football player at Baylor, he is one of very few who have played football in the NFL and attended an NFL equivalent of law schools.
……Just as he made the most of his opportunity to play football, Colin Allred made the most of his law school opportunities. He worked as a research assistant for Ian Haney Lopez, author of White by Law and Dog Whistle Politics. He worked for White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler, a former prosecutor who delivered the closing arguments in the prosecution of the Enron executives. He completed an externship with the US Attorney in Maryland. He worked in the US Department of Housing and Urban Affairs serving under fellow Texan Julian Castro.
……Colin Allredhas been an associate at Perkins Cole, a national law firm whose tag line is “Counsel to Great Companies.” The firm also produces a blog titled “Consumer Protection Review.”
……Colin Allred‘s focus has been civil rights. He served as the Dallas-Fort Worth Director of Voter Protection for Battleground Texas — part of a state-wide effort to ensure that eligible voters are allowed to vote.
……Colin Allred is now the Democratic nominee for the 32nd Congressional District in Texas, a district that pundits say leans Republican. He brings to the table life-long ties to Dallas, especially to youth and high school football in Dallas.
……Colin Allred brings to the table a life transformed by his reading Barack Obama’s Dreams of My Father. He was moved by the experiences of a man like him — a mixed race child raised by his white, single mom, confronting his aspirations and his identify. He changed his career interest from medicine to public service.
……Colin Allred brings to the table his belief that the strength of the United States of America is its diversity. Football was a kind of model, teams composed of diverse men who worked together for a common purpose. He adds that he understands, that in politics, the clarity of a unified group working for a single purpose rarely happens.
……Colin Allredwants to unseat Congressman Pete Sessions. Chairman of the Rules Committee, former Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, son of a former head of the FBI, raised in Waco and in the DC suburbs, he has been a Congressman since 2002. So, he’s got a record.
……There are embarrassments in that record. ……Sessions had ties to notorious, now jailed, lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Sessions signed letters to Cabinet members urging that certain native American casinos be shut down to the benefit of tribes Abramoff represented.
……In the early 2000s, he explained how the Republicans learned from the Taliban about how to be disruptive insurgents.
……Later in the decade, when Congressional earmarks were still possible, he arranged for a $1.6 contract in dirigible research for a company with no experience in government research or in dirigibles. The company did have lobbyist who was a former Sessions’ aide, a man who eventually went to jail for his political misdeeds.
……Sessions also had ties with convicted Ponzi scheme banker Allen Stanford. Before the Ponzi scheme became known, Sessions had participated in many Stanford events, appears to have arranged for him to evade Cuban embargo restrictions, and vouched for him to the Venezuelans.……Sessions was one of the members of Congress to receive special VIP rates for a loan from the Countryside Bank during the run up to the 2008 financial crisis.
……Asked about his showing up at the World War II memorial, during the 2013 government shutdown, Sessions explained: “we’re not the French; we don’t surrender.”
……His view of the value of diversity in the United States is not Colin Allred’s view. In 2010, Sessions commented on Princeton’s men’s basketball team: “How often can you go see a bunch of white guys play basketball?” Shortly afterwards, he made disparaging comments about the DCCC providing financial support to an African American congressman.
……It is time for Pete Session to be removed from Congress. Thirty-five year old Colin Allredhttps://www.colinallred.com/ is the right person to remove him. This will be an expensive campaign. Colin Allred needs financial support. Running in Dallas is expensive. Running in a “Lean Republican” district when the incumbent is threatened is expensive. Help Allred have the resources to beat Pete Sessions.
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