Pete Olson is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 9, 1962 in Joint Base Lewis-McChord, United States. In 2007 Olson declared he was running to win the Republican nomination for the district of 22nd District. Olson was one of the 10 Republicans on the ballot. The other candidates were Sekula-Gibbs ex- Pasadena, Texas mayor John Manlove John Manlove, ex- Sugar Land mayor Dean Hrbacek state representative Robert Talton, Senior District Judge Jim Squier, Texas State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar, and three minor candidates. Sekula-Gibbs was the winner of the first round, scoring 30 percent. Olson came in second place, scoring 21 percent. Sekula-Gibbs came in just behind the majority required to be a clear winner, Olson and Sekula-Gibbs advanced to an April runoff. Sekula-Gibbs attacked Olson because he was “a Washington insider … [who] moved here just six months ago to run.” But, 12 out of Texas 19 Republican congressmen backed Olson for the presidential primary.
On June 5, 2008, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney visited Houston to raise money for Olson’s congressional campaign. The event took place at the home of Houston billionaire Dan Duncan. From July 1 to September 30, 2008, Olson raised more money than Lampson, $312,700 to $149,000. In the November 2008 election, Olson defeated Lampson with 53 percent of the vote to Lampson’s 45%. He won four of the district’s five counties.
At the end of March 2008, Olson’s campaign was technically in debt, with almost $128,000 on hand and a debt to the candidate, who provided a personal loan of $175,000.
After his military service ended Olson was appointed to Senator Gramm’s staff in 1998. Following the resignation of Gramm in Senate in 2002, Olson was appointed chief of staff to the Senate at the end of 2002 Olson was chief of staff for his successor in the Senate, U.S. Senate member and ex- Texas Attorney General John Cornyn, from December 2002 to May 2007.
In the last Democratic primary election, Briscoe got 377 votes (53.2 percent) to defeat his intra-party opponent, Mark Gibson, who got the same number of votes, 2,967 (46.8 per cent). Briscoe is the cousin of deceased Harris County District Attorney Frank Briscoe whom was defeated twice in his bid to become the mayor in Houston but lost in the race in 1966. race for Texas 7th congressional district, which was later won by future president George Herbert Walker Bush. He is a close relative of former Gov. Dolph Briscoe.
Due to the unusual circumstances in District 22, the race attracted national attention. In 2007, Stuart Rothenberg called the district “arguably the best Republican takeover opportunity in the country”. After Olson was nominated, the Electoral-vote.com website identified his campaign as “probably the GOP’s best pickup opportunity for 2008.”
