In the SD17 Special Election, Republican Joan Huffman is now running advertisements on TV, and they give an in-substantial jab to Chris Bell. And Bell is quickly up with a quick response:
Huffman's ad accurately claims, "Chris Bell has run for office and lost again and again." That's surely an attack of "petty politics": who cares how many times someone has lost an election? It's not as if Bell has never won; he's served well on the Houston City Council and U.S. Congress.
Chris Bell, in some of his losses, has simply been less preferred than other good public servants (i.e. Al Green, Lee Brown). By all means, someone who loses can still be good. Bell has given some great public service representing Houstonians, and he is running for the Texas Senate because he wants to do so again. With Republicans who preach values unfit for Houston or Texas, I hope a majority of SD17 voters go with the man who has practiced strong leadership, instead.
