Shelley Sekula-Gibbs - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Shelley Sekula-Gibbs net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Shelley Sekula Gibbs (born June 22nd 1953) is a American politician and physician who was an elected Member of the United States House of Representatives serving in Texas’ 22nd congressional district beginning on the 13th of November, 2006 until January 3, 2007. A Republican She also been an elected city council member in Houston, Texas for three years, from 2002 until 2006. She was elected in a race for the special elections to take the 22nd Congressional seat on the 7th of November on the 7th of November, 2006 for the remaining week in the 109th United States Congress. On the same day she also lost the general election to fill this place during the 110th United States Congress. In the 2008 election to win the Republican nomination for the 22nd Congressional District she was first in the primary, but fell in a second round against Pete Olson. In 2019 she received a seat on the Woodlands Township Board of Directors in Position 5. In this article, we will discover how old is Shelley Sekula-Gibbs? Who is Shelley Sekula-Gibbs dating now & how much money does Shelley Sekula-Gibbs have?

Shelley Sekula-Gibbs Biography

Shelley Sekula-Gibbs is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 22, 1953 in Floresville, Texas, United States. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who had been a resident of Sekula-Gibbs’s district after it was redistricted to the DeLay district (see the 2003 Texas redistricting) and was indicted for conspiracy-related charges He decided to leave Congress in order to avoid an uphill re-election battle the next election in November. Following the announcement of DeLay, Sekula-Gibbs expressed an interest in the job however she was waiting until DeLay to complete the formal withdrawing procedure prior to filing her resignation papers.

Sekula-Gibbs won the special election on November 7, 2006.

Texas Governor Rick Perry announced on August 29, 2006, that a special election would take place for the unexpired term of Tom DeLay, coinciding with the general election on November 7, 2006. That meant that voters chose twice for the same race but with a different set of candidates (only Libertarian Bob Smither was on both ballots). It set up a scenario in which the constituents of District 22 sent one person to Washington for the last two months of the 109th Congress and a different person to Congress for the two years following. It also means that Sekula-Gibbs was on the ballot for the special election (but not the general election, in which she remained a write-in). Sekula-Gibbs filed for the special election and appeared on the ballot, as did Bob Smither; however, Lampson chose not to file. Sekula-Gibbs was asked if the special election would confuse voters. She replied, “People already know it’s an unusual race.” She also stated that having her name on one ballot would serve as “a memory jog.”

On June 2, 2002, she was married Robert W. Gibbs, Jr. who was the former Director of Corporate Community Relations for Reliant Energy, and they reside within The Woodlands, Texas. Sekula-Gibbs is mother to two grown children. She is a Roman Catholic.

Sekula-Gibbs was elected to her position of At Large, Position Three on the Houston City Council in 2001 as Shelley Sekula Rodriguez, following her marriage to late newscaster on TV Sylvan Rodriguez. In 2005, she was re-elected under her current name. Sekula-Gibbs is the only physician to ever be elected to serve on the Houston City Council.

The district is heavily Republican in both the eastern portion of the district (where Sekula-Gibbs’ base is located) and in the western portion (where Wallace comes from). The main counties in the district, Fort Bend, Galveston and Brazoria voted 61% for Bush and 38.5% for Kerry and the remainder to a third-party candidate. The district as a whole, including the sections of Harris that it covers, voted for Bush in 2004 with 64% of the vote. However, write-in candidates have historically failed to win in Texas, which made victory a challenge for Sekula-Gibbs. The Dallas Morning News noted that on the electronic machines used in District 22, voters would have to spell out any write-in candidate’s name by using a wheel to move a cursor through the alphabet. The race was one of the most competitive races in the country according to the National Journal. Two nonpartisan political reports, the Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, rated the race as Leans Democratic and CQPolitics.com rated the race Leans Democratic. Smither, the Libertarian candidate, has stated that “a vote for liberal Democrat Nick Lampson will be a vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House.” Libertarian Ron Paul, 1988 Libertarian Party candidate for president, was a previous holder of the District 22 seat.

Shelley Sekula-Gibbs Net Worth

Shelley is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Sekula-Gibbs’s marriage has been arranged three times. The first time, she was married to Alan Greenberg, the second time to KHOU TV newscaster Sylvan Rodriguez. Rodriguez passed away from pancreatic cancer in the year 2000. Prior to his death, Rodriguez was the inspiration behind Sekula-Gibbs’s decision to run for the public office.

On August 17, 2006, Sekula-Gibbs was selected as the endorsed Republican write-in candidate for District 22. A write-in candidate was necessary because the Republicans were unsuccessful in their efforts to replace DeLay’s name on the ballot with another Republican’s name. The courts ruled that replacing DeLay’s name, especially after winning the state primary, violated Texas election laws. After the court defeat, DeLay chose to remove his name voluntarily from the ballot, essentially leaving the ballot without a Republican standard bearer. The precinct chairpersons voted to endorse one Republican for a write-in campaign. Four Republicans in all — Sekula-Gibbs, Tom Campbell, Tim Turner and David Wallace, the mayor of the Houston suburb of Sugar Land — expressed interest in the Republican endorsement of a write-in campaign. Two of Sekula-Gibbs’ fellow Republican candidates, Campbell and Turner, decided to support Sekula-Gibbs in the general election immediately after her endorsement. However, Wallace, who was the first to launch a write-in campaign for the seat, decided initially to continue his campaign without the backing of GOP leaders in the district, which would have made election to Congress difficult for Sekula-Gibbs. In the end, Wallace dropped out of the race days after Sekula-Gibbs received the endorsement. Sekula-Gibbs faced Democratic ex-congressman Nick Lampson and Libertarian Bob Smither.

Sekula-Gibbs resigned her seat on the Houston city council on November 8, 2006, following her victory in the special election to fill the two-month unexpired term of Tom DeLay. A special election was held to fill her Council seat in May 2007; in runoff voting Democrat Melissa Noriega won the position.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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On October 30, 2006, a poll was released that was conducted by John Zogby and sponsored by the Houston Chronicle and KHOU, intended to gauge support for the various candidates in the district race. Sekula-Gibbs received support of 28 percent of respondents, compared to 36 percent support for Lampson, according to the poll of more than 500 likely voters in the 22nd Congressional District.

Who is Shelley Sekula-Gibbs Dating?

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On November 13, Sekula-Gibbs was sworn in for the vacant seat. She said she would use her brief time in Congress, “For tax cuts. For immigration reform. To make sure we have a good solution for the war in Iraq.” Her term expired on January 3, 2007, when Nick Lampson was sworn in to represent the district.

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On November 7, 2006, Sekula-Gibbs lost the general election for the seat to Democrat Nick Lampson, but won the special election to fulfill the remainder of former Representative Tom DeLay’s term in the final session of the 109th Congress.

Sekula-Gibbs ran again for the Congressional seat in 2008. She won the first round with 29.72%–short of the majority needed to win the nomination outright. She advanced to a runoff in April against runner-up Pete Olson, a former aide to former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm. Sekula-Gibbs criticized Olson as “a Washington insider … [who] moved here just six months ago to run.” Nevertheless, 12 of Texas’s 19 Republican congressmen endorsed Olson in the primary. Gibbs’ campaign manager in the 2008 primary was conservative activist Clymer Wright, father of the municipal term limits movement in Houston. Olson won the April 8 runoff, taking 69 percent of the vote to Sekula-Gibbs’ 31 percent.

Facts & Trivia

Shelley Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs celebrates birthday on June 22 of every year.

Sekula-Gibbs retired from practicing medicine in 2014, citing personal health issues.

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