Steve Stockman

Steve Stockman is a conservative former U.S. Representative from Texas, who was first elected in 1994. Liberals were so enraged at Stockman's conservative advocacy that they successfully targeted him for defeat in 1996. In 2012, however, he was elected again to Congress after a 16-year absence.

A native of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Stockman opposed the RINOs by refusing to vote for Moderate Republican John Boehner of Ohio as Speaker of the House. Stockman also called for the impeachment of U.S. President Barack H. Obama.

In 2014, he was defeated in the Republican primary for the United States Senate by moderate Republican John Cornyn, who went on to defeat Democratic opposition to win his third term. Dwayne Stovall, a school board member from Cleveland in Liberty County in southeastern Texas, divided the conservative vote with Stockman, but Cornyn had a majority in the primary. By entering the Senate contest, Stockman was unable to seek reelection to the House.

On March 28, 2017, Stockman was indicted by a federal grand jury for an assortment of financial crimes. He is charged with having obtained $1.25 million under false pretenses and used that money to underwrite his political campaigns. He faces eleven counts of money laundering, eight counts of mail and wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to make "conduit contributions" and false statements, two counts of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, one count of making excessive contributions, and another count for not disclosing his total income on his 2013 federal tax return. Stockman's trial began March 19, 2018.<ref> Eric Garcia, "Corruption Trial Begins for Former Rep. Steve Stockman", Roll Call, March 19, 2018.</ref/>