I received word today that former Harris County District Attorney's Office 1st Assistant Jim Leitner had signed up to run for Harris County Attorney. We haven't heard much from Big Jim since his testimony in the David Temple hearing, where he repeatedly claimed that I wrote untrue things about him, and then subsequently admitting that all the things I had written about him were, um, completely accurate . When we last checked in with him, his employment had been terminated by Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman and he was working as a contract attorney in the 208th District Court. Jim's return to politics is interesting for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, he never seems to win anything. He's made a couple of tries to be District Attorney that haven't panned out too well for him. More interestingly, however, is the fact that he seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis on what political party he belongs to. Jim has been very public in his sup