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Todd Hunter is Gene Seaman Part 2. He's lazy, he's arrogant, and he's out of touch with his district. More importantly, he's getting lost in a sea of amateur mistakes that is concerning Republicans that his campaign is floundering. At this point, Hunter's only hope is to pour special interest lobby money into the race with a flood of negative advertising. And don't worry -- that will be coming soon. Here's a look at Hunter's no good, very bad week: - Todd Hunter is hiding enough insurance lobby money to bail out Freddie Mac.
Hunter continues to refuse to release his tax records, because he knows that as soon as he does everyone will know exactly how much he is financed by the insurance lobby. Seriosuly -- this has been months in the making.
It's a stupid campaign move. He could have released them months ago, when no one was paying attention. Now, instead of only Garcia running ads on "Hunter paid by the insurance lobby" Garcia can run ads on "What is he hiding?" and then run ads on "Hunter paid by the insurance lobby." It gives Hunter no time to construct a counter-narrative.
Hunter runs scared, Garcia wins twice, and another Republican runs a crappy campaign in HD 32.
Todd Hunter dodges debates like hippies dodge drafts.
Juan Garcia is a Naval Commander who was a top aide to the deputy Commander in Chief of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. Todd Hunter is ducking out of planned debates before constituents at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
I have only one question: who is ready to lead?
Running scared on his tax records. Running scared from constituents. If Seaman lost because he was unlikeable and senile, Hunter is going to lose because his campaign is trying to see if a candidate can get elected while hiding under the bed. - Todd Hunter is turning into Seaman with his negative advertising
Remember when Seaman started getting desparate and running bogus attack ads? It backfired pretty hard. And now that Hunter is running a lobby-funded campaign that hides from constituents, guess what he's started to do: run negative radio ads.
The latest falsely attacks Garcia for votes on HB 2960. From Garcia's campaign:The radio attack ad claims that House Bill 2960, "would have led to big rate increases for coastal residents and hurt the economy of our area." The ad asks, "So why did our three state representatives vote to make our rates go even higher?" The Facts: HB 2960 was authored by Representative Smithee, the Republican Chairman of the Insurance Committee. Along with Garcia's vote, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association measure passed the House unanimously, 137-0. According to the House Research Organization, the measure held the promise to "give TWIA the tools to become solvent and healthy for years to come. A strong TWIA creates more security for Coastal Bend homeowners and that will drive windstorm rates down, not up, and stimulate economic growth for our area."
Seriously -- this is supposed to be the best shot Republicans have at beating a Democrat? Running a candidate that is like Gene Seaman, without so much viagra? A less enthusiastic, cranky, incompetent, short-sighted candidate that may be running the largest industry-influenced campaign in the district's history -- this is who Republicans think will win? Todd Hunter is a rerun candidate. We've seen this schlock before, and the voters in HD 32 did, too. They didn't watch it then, and they're going to turn out Todd Hunter again in November. |
