September 10, 2003
Some Good News From Tonight
By Byron LaMasters
The wing-nut running for mayor of Phoenix lost.
It's always fun to teach the wing-nuts a lesson or two. Haha. The guy who ran as a Republican in a nonpartisan election got crushed. I like it. At least something good happened this evening as the program to make Alabama respectable lost in a landslide. Even Republican friends agree with me that running as a Republican partisan is a bad tactic in a nonpartisan city election. This is an increasingly popular tactic. Republicans think that they can take over city government by running as an unabased Republican. Voters just aren't that stupid. It didn't work in Phoenix, it didn't work in Dallas (Mary Poss) earlier this year, and hopefully (Orlando Sanchez) it won't work in Houston in November.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at September 10, 2003 02:53 AM
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Less-than-stealth Dems Sylvester Turner and Bill White versus totally uncloaked Elephants Orlando Sanchez and Michael Berry makes for a great "nonpartisan" race in Houston. :)
As I've said on Kuff's blog, I'd rather have Joe Roach. :) Oh well.
I'm a fan of Bill White, but I'm basically fine with anyone but Sanchez. Sanchez would be the new GOP Hispanic puppet. Berry is too far-right to win a run-off should he get in, and Turner is decent but too close to the House GOP leadership in my opinion. I've always found it interesting how Houston's non-partisan mayoral elections always seem to be partisan. Dallas and Austin are much less so. Of course that doesn't make them any better. Dallas mayoral elections tend to go along racial lines whereas Austin it's usually along environmentalist vs. development lines.
