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Steve Stockman

If you told me Pauly Shore might get elected to Congress someday, I'd say, "seems unlikely, but anything's possible." But Steve Stockman? No way, dude!

In his early 20s, Steve was homeless and living in a Fort Worth park with Vietnam vets and the mentally ill.

But in 1994, this young Texan defeated Jack Brooks, the House Judiciary Committee chairman. Steve didn't like the way Jack treated his hero, Ollie North. He was also pissed because Jack supported the Brady bill, a pet peeve of the gun lobby.

But Steve didn't work out too well. His friends in Congress said he was an impressionable guy who got hooked up with the wrong crowd. He got a lot of money from the Gun Owners of America, a really swell bunch with ties to white supremacists and the militia movement. They're even kookier than the NRA.

In 1995, Steve got a fax warning him about the Oklahoma City bombing. Someone connected to the Michigan Militia had sent it. That made him look pretty shady.

Suspicions about Steve were reinforced when he wrote a nasty letter to Attorney General Janet Reno, criticizing rumored attacks by law enforcement officers against the militias. And in a Guns and Ammo article about the Branch Davidian incident in Waco, he accused both Reno and President Clinton of murder.

Steve just wasn't taken seriously by his fellow Congressmen. He had come up with some nutty ideas. He attacked the nation's sex-education programs, saying they're based on a child molestation study. Then he introduced a bill to investigate Alfred Kinsey's report on sexual behavior. The report was introduced in 1948. Steve would have had a little trouble hauling Kinsey before Congress for questioning. Kinsey died in 1956.

After only one term, Steve was voted out. Now he has lots of time to devote to his hobby, ceramics. But he doesn't want us to know about that. He said he's afraid we'll "think he's a fag for sure."