Dukes just filed a telegram report showing $67,880 in contributions from one donor: trial lawyer Mikal Watts.
Ironically (or hypocritically) she fired off a press release last week that criticized Thompson for taking money from a trial lawyer, and Quorum Report posted the Dukes press release:
DUKES: THOMPSON SELLS OUT IN DISTRICT 46
This morning voters in District 46 got a rude awakening, learning that Brian Thompson... has received over 50 percent of his campaign funds in this period from one, mega-rich Houston trial lawyer...
"This is a major red flag for voters," Dukes stated. "Thompson has sold his independence and the best interests of this district to the highest bidder. He's trying to turn the people's House into an auction barn."
The release also posed this question..."The biggest question for voters now is, 'What votes did Brian Thompson have to sell to get this money?
Glass house? Hypocrite?
So now that Dukes just took 67k from a certain trial lawyer, how would Dukes answer her own question? This is just slightly more than Dukes received from Republican donors before the 8 day reporting deadline.
In addition, the Thompson campaign has released a new, hard hitting ad asking the same questions we have been posing since 2007.
