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Interesting comment since Dan Grant has been overwhelmingly endorsed throughout the district. One group that has endorsed Larry Joe Doherty is Texas SEIU and after getting a flyer at an event, it is shocking to see neither a union bug or a printed in house message. Wonder if they'd do that again if they knew he was using non-union printers?
LJD is a nice guy, but Dan Grant has the experience we need in Congress. He has been endorsed by dozens of Democratic groups in both Houston and Austin and yesterday, Grant earned the endorsement of Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle.
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My sense is that Doherty hasn't worked so hard at this kind of outreach; and the endorsements that don't matter that LJD hasn't gotten seem to be evidence of his unwillingness to reach out.
It's the difference between personally reaching out to people, even those on the periphery - and ignoring the little people who one doesn't feel are important or don't have the big bucks.
Frankly, if I wanted that badly to be ignored, I'd vote for McCaul in November. Which is not to say that if LJD wins, that I won't vote for him in the general.
Larry Joe Doherty and Dan Grant are very different people, and comparing their experience is apples-to-oranges. I prefer oranges, and I prefer Grant.
LJD is a nice guy, and he also has several decades of experience practicing law. that is the experience i would like to see in a candidate running to be lawmaker.
Just because "law" is in both words "lawyer" and "lawmaker" does not mean that it's a qualification.
I prefer a candidate, like Grant, whose education and life's work experience is applicable to the office he seeks. You know, foreign policy...helping war-torn countries have fair elections...That kind of experience. "A time comes when silence is betrayal." Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democrats should always get the bug for obvious reasons, but does the lack of the bug signify it was made by a non-union shop?
...but it does signify a big blunder from someone that claims to have so much experience. "A time comes when silence is betrayal." Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Doherty got the TV job, he told the State Bar of Texas, because "they had a cattle call and I had the longest horns." He's currently lead partner in a Houston law firm and specializes in suing other lawyers
Cute line, but not what I would expect coming from a serious candidate. Why would he need to explain to the State Bar how he got the "job"?
Doherty says he has more experience than Grant and wants to "get out of Iraq now and continue getting out until we are completely out." He characterized his opponent's pullout plan as a "slow crawl with a continuing slow financial drain."
What part of being a TV personality and malpractice lawyer makes Doherty think he has more "experience"?...Especially in matters of foreign policy! Has he been to Iraq? Does he have any foreign policy experience?
Contrasted with this type of proven leadership and experience:
Grant, 34, of Austin, worked at 18 as an intern for the late U.S. Rep. J.J. "Jake" Pickle and later with John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign as a foreign policy consultant. He spent most his career with non-profit groups working with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has worked on the constitutional convention in Afghanistan and also worked in Bosnia and Kosovo. He helped organize voting by Iraqi expatriates in the U.S. and went to Iraq in 2005 to help set up elections there. He criticized the administration for failing to do enough after the Iraq elections to pressure the Iraqi government to change. He said the majority of U.S. troops should be pulled out of Iraq "as soon as possible" leaving behind a small operating force in Kuwait and Kurdistan.
He spent most his career with non-profit groups working with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has worked on the constitutional convention in Afghanistan and also worked in Bosnia and Kosovo. He helped organize voting by Iraqi expatriates in the U.S. and went to Iraq in 2005 to help set up elections there.
He criticized the administration for failing to do enough after the Iraq elections to pressure the Iraqi government to change. He said the majority of U.S. troops should be pulled out of Iraq "as soon as possible" leaving behind a small operating force in Kuwait and Kurdistan.
