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I'm Starting to Feel that Campaign Fight Again...


by: Phillip Martin

Fri Oct 30, 2009 at 00:16 AM CDT


I'm starting to feel that campaign fight again....

...Maybe I'm just already in a 2010 war mode from the Texas Democratic Party's "Top 10 Rick Perry Failures" and their "Who is the Real KBH?" campaigns...

...Maybe it was seeing all the work and effort from the Gilbert campaign this week, including their highly successful transportation rollout...

...Maybe it was seeing Leo Vasquez, Ed Johnson, and Co. suffer another brutal blow to their voter suppression efforts in Harris County -- then getting to see Vasquez puff up his chest and act like he didn't just get smacked down, so that he can try and look macho in front of the extreme right-wing of the corrupt Harris County Republican Party...

...Maybe it is that we're actually about to have health care bills on the floors of Congress...

...Maybe it is reading about KT's enthusiasm for his work in Kalamazoo right now...

...Maybe it's just that I voted today...

...and maybe it's just that today is my fourth month back home in Texas; UT football is going into November undefeated, the NBA is back (!), and this time last year I was freezing in New England, as opposed to enjoying 70-degree weather here at home.

Whatever the reason, I'm feeling good...and I'm starting to feel that campaign fight again.

I know it's a year away, and there are a lot of unanswered questions -- both nationally and here in Texas -- and with so much uncertainty, it can become easy to kind of drift, and get frustrated, and lack a sense of purpose.

But one year out, I'm feeling that fight again. And reading the TDP smash the new Republican Party of Texas Chair Cathie Adams like this -- 

On issue after issue, Cathie Adams is either uninformed or intentionally spreading the same garbage one expects from Rush Limbaugh, another sign that failed one party Republican rule has nothing better to offer Texans.

-- after having read what RPT Chair Cathie Adams had to say --

On Former Governor Ann Richards:

  • "She's an anti-religious bigot. How can people think she is Texas-down-home Ma Richards? I feel very insulted that she is representing me as a Texas woman. Most Texas women are ladylike and God-fearing. Ann Richards has none of those qualities." (Houston Chronicle via Texas Freedom Network)
On President Obama’s Address, urging schoolchildren to work hard and stay in school:

-- yeah.

I'm ready for 2010.

Read the full TDP e-mail -- sent out by Texas Democratic Party Communications Director Kirsten Gray -- below the jump:

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The Texas Democratic Party

Dear fellow Democrat,

Last Saturday, the Texas GOP elected Cathie Adams as their new Party Chair. By electing the leader of the radical Texas Eagle Forum group, they chose a leader who has espoused an out-of-touch political philosophy that marches in lockstep with the most extreme talk radio commentators and fringe groups. Even the Dallas County GOP Chair, Jonathan Neerman, remarked on Adams' election, "what's happened is we've set the party back five years."

With the election of Cathie Adams, Texas Republicans completely abandoned mainstream Texans to embrace an extremist agenda that is out-of-touch with the concerns of most Texans.

Consider new Texas GOP Chair Ms. Adams’ positions on just a few issues.

On Children’s Health Care for working Texas citizens and their families:

  • “We do not have a children’s health care crisis.” (Texas Eagle Forum Alert, 2/21/99 via Texas Freedom Network)
On President Obama:
  • "While many question Barack Hussein Obama's 'religion'...the more important question is whether he has a 'relationship' with Jesus Christ because that is the only HOPE that any of us have to obtain eternal life.  I personally see NO evidence that Obama has that kind of 'saving faith'." (Texas Freedom Network, page 40)
On Hispanic Texans:
  • “If mom had a baby at age 15, are her morals going to be setting different standards than someone who has grown up in the American culture where that is not typical?” (Dallas Morning News)
On Stem Cell Research to Cure Cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases:
  • “Scientists are on the verge of cloning humans, injecting them with diseases and studying them, then killing them.” (Source: Texas Eagle Forum via Americans United)
On Former Governor Ann Richards:
  • "She's an anti-religious bigot. How can people think she is Texas-down-home Ma Richards? I feel very insulted that she is representing me as a Texas woman. Most Texas women are ladylike and God-fearing. Ann Richards has none of those qualities." (Houston Chronicle via Texas Freedom Network)
On President Obama’s Address, urging schoolchildren to work hard and stay in school:

On issue after issue, Cathie Adams is either uninformed or intentionally spreading the same garbage one expects from Rush Limbaugh, another sign that failed one party Republican rule has nothing better to offer Texans.

Sincerely,

Kirsten Gray
Communications Director
Texas Democratic Party

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Let's get ready to rumble (3.00 / 1)
Over here in in H-Town we're already street fighting. Just a warm-up for next year, though.

Don't let the Blue Dogs getcha down. Primary them.

I've got my gloves on (0.00 / 0)
Actually, I don't think I ever took them off. :)

[ Parent ]
Actually, here in Houston ... (0.00 / 0)
The only openly partisan appeal or micro-targeting in the current campaigns is a GOP robo-call purporting to come from "Democratic leaders" that bad-mouths the leading Democrat running for City Controller.

For some reason, the consultants here still believe that the marginal voter in Harris County is a "swing" voter who will turn-out in support of Republican-lite fear/crime messaging and a non-partisan version of Reaganite borrow/spend government.

Yes, there is "street-fighting" here but only because the "air war" is empty rhetoric.

As for Leo Vasquez, he has taken a hard partisan edge off of the Tax Office, but that leaves only cosmetic changes in what is proving to be a refractory system of vote-suppression that threatens Democratic prospects here next year.



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