| As readers may have noticed, we at BOR have taken a particular interest in the open SD-17 special election (you can read most of the posts here) and have raised over $1,000 for Chris Bell.
Now it seems like someone else is interested in the race, too: Ron Wilson.
In fact Wilson, talking about himself in the third person, had something to say to our readers.
You would stand a better chance being raped by a water buffalo than having any accurate information on Ron Wilson or Tom Craddick.
Former Craddick assistant parliamentarian Ron Wilson seems to not only be interested in SD-17, he seems to be working with Republicans to recruit and keep questionable candidates and the ballot. Wilson is also spinning the Republican talking points and defaming Democratic candidates and their supporter.
Before I go much further, it's time to let everyone know that Ron Wilson is not Baby Snooks as one reader speculated. That did get me wondering though, about the writing pattern of user "D. Davenport" who has only shown up a handful of times to attack Democratic House Leader Jim Dunnam, defend failed candidate Latreese Cooke, defend Donna Keel's brother-in-law and Craddick Parliamentarian Terry Keel, and Craddick D Sylvester Turner.
D. Davenport has an extensive understanding (although faulty interpretation) of House rules. D. Davenport has written almost exclusively in Austin, but seems to know a lot about Houston elected officials and races. Most interesting, D. Davenport has made it a point to lie about matters of public record including payments and statements on the House floor.
At one point in June of last year, D. Davenport said, "You have no idea who you are corresponding with nor do you need to know."
After some investigation, we can tell you we know who D. Davenport is.
D. Davenport is none other than Ron Wilson.
That's right, former Assistant House Parliamentarian and State Representative Ron Wilson is the one who has been attacking readers and calling people racists on Burnt Orange Report.
Like all our registered community members, Ron Wilson provided an e-mail address when he registered. The e-mail he provided only had two results when you google it. One site is the state bar of Texas. The other is a car forum, where a guest, "ron_wilson" talks shop about high end cars.
This is almost exactly how we found the secret identity of David Beckwith (aka Buck Smith).
The point here is that D. Davenport, like Buck Smith is a paid political operative. They concealed their identity, picked fights with our community members, and expected to get away with it. We don't go looking up every user account. (For one, there are over 4,000 users and besides that, we generally expect people to play fair.)
In fact, if a reader hadn't speculated that Baby Snooks was Ron Wilson, we never would have found out who D. Davenport was. I wouldn't have looked through his 20 comments to realize a pattern.
Because of "D. Davenport's" comments, one reader called to tell me Ron Wilson admitted to recruiting Stephanie Simmons to challenge Chris Bell in Senate District 17 -- saying simply, "What do you think about what we did to your boy Bell?"
How do you feel about that? We don't like it and we don't like "Buck Smith" or "D. Davenport" style deception on Burnt Orange Report.
If you don't like it either, please feel to give a dollar for every comment Buck Smith and or D. Davenport has made on BOR to either TexBlog PAC or the House Democratic Campaign Committee (HDCC) to make sure we can end this sort of deception in Austin.
That's 20 comments from Ron Wilson and an impressive 84 comments from David Beckwith. |
