This is posted on behalf of SDEC member and frequent commentor at BOR John Robert Behrman, who is traveling in the Northeast after having attended Netroots Nation. John Robert asked me to post his following comments:
I agree w/ recent open letters by SDEC member Dennis TEAL and DNC member John PATRICK that there is no point to negative campaigning in a "Louisiana Primary" today, given that (a) there will be a highly partisan run-off and (b) there are both real primary elections as well as an important general election - a decisive general election in Harris County -- next year.
I would add that, in any event, there are much more important matters than battle of the bitch-lists immediately at hand. And, the credibility of every single Democratic elected party or public official is on the line over one of them right now: