TX-23: GOP Nominee Francisco "Quico" Canseco Hit With $715,000 in Liens

"competitive districts like TX-23"--which ones are those? (3.00 / 1)

Regarding the comment that the Repubs are trying "to make sure that Green candidates make it on the ballot in competitive districts like TX-23", there are only 2 other districts where both a Green and a Democrat are running, according to the Texas Secretary of State's office (emphasis "districts"--not talking about statewide offices here).

One is CD 11 in west Texas, which I think is safe for GOP Rep. Mike Conaway. Besides, the Democratic nominee, James Quillian, is a self-proclaimed conservative who says he's a Democrat because the GOP is full of "stealth liberals" and he attacks the national health care program as "socialism". That's enough to make any self-respecting progressive vote Green.

The only other district with both a Democrat and a Green is state House District 144. I don't know if that's a competitive race, but I'd say if those (maybe) 2 races are it, then the Repubs have failed pretty miserably with that scheme.

A comment on this issue in general:
I've enjoyed reading BOR for some time now and signed on because I tired quickly of the over-the-top commentary here over the GOP-Green scheme that cumulatively has demonized the Green Party leadership and tried to make them look like the scum of the earth.

They (Green leaders) are a group of political amateurs, who, as a minor party, are by definition on the fringes of electoral politics and obviously were not ready for prime time, but were cynically deceived, manipulated and used by Republican political pros who knew exactly what they were doing. It's the Repubs, not the Greens, who should be hammered for laundering corporate money. The Greens deserve a hand slap for not being able to play with the big boys according to the rules, but the voters and petition signatories should not be punished by keeping the party off the ballot. The tenor of the comments here suggested to me that the motivation for vituperation against the Greens was not really moral revulsion at the fiasco, and not even so much the desire to bring Republican henchmen to justice, but it was agreement with the notion that the political end of electing Bill White justifies the means - including restricting the political process to keep other parties off the ballot. I must disagree, even though I do very much hope that White and other Democrats are elected in November.

So bravo to the TDP leadership for dropping the effort to keep the Greens off the ballot. It was the right thing to do. I don't think I would have continued to contribute financially to the party if it were going to incur more legal expenses for that purpose.

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by: Jacobus @ Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 05:11:52 AM UTC

Broken record (1.00 / 1)

Will every blog report going forward on Perry or another Rep candidate refer to the "Green Party Ballots Scandal"?

That horse is dead. Quit beating it and bringing attention to the impotence of the TDP's tantrum in getting what it wanted.  

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by: Brad M @ Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 19:35:18 PM UTC