It’s Election Eve, so the roundup is election heavy:
- Greanias: Metro doesn’t owe the city (Michael Reed, West U Examiner)
The “new” METRO sounds a lot like the “old” METRO picking this nit. - Repudiation Day minus one (Unca Darrell)
Unca Darrell takes apart the Chron‘s latest effort at political analysis. Most MSM print reporters should really stick to straight reporting, and leave “analysis” and PolitiFarce-style editorializing alone. But they just can’t seem to help themselves (even as readers continue to turn elsewhere). - Bad weather may add to Democrats’ election woes (Joe Holley, Houston Chronicle)
Locally, Jared Woodfill, Harris County Republican Party chairman, spent a part of his Sunday afternoon training poll watchers and predicting a few surprises on Election Day. He was particularly excited about the possibility that in the Precinct 2 county commissioner’s race, challenger Jack Moorman, an attorney in the office of former County Attorney Michael Fleming, could knock off two-term incumbent Sylvia Garcia, first elected in 2002.
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Woodfill noted that Garcia started the year with $1.7 million in campaign cash and raised $577,000 more this year, while Moorman, a political unknown, has spent only about $60,000.
Apparently, he’s so unknown that the Chron‘s political reporter and copy editors couldn’t get his name right. It’s MORMAN. Perhaps this also explains why the Chron‘s resident plagiarist had trouble finding him on Google. Terrible.
- An Aggressive Prosecutor (Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center)
- The Battle of Harris County (Abby Rapoport, Texas Observer)
Unsurprisingly, True the Vote is portrayed as a conservative project, but Houston Votes is not portrayed as a Dem-dominated, ACORN-like GOTV operation. - Sheila Jackson Lee’s Thug Tactics Against Law Abiding Poll Watchers Doomed to Backfire (J. Christian Adams, Big Government)
- The King Street Patriots Speak Out (TexasSparkle)
My feeling is that we should have volunteers that videotape any actions that they know to be violating voting rights or interference. Let the videos speak for themselves.
My feeling is that we should not encourage violations of the Texas election code.
- White looks back (Chron Texas Politics)
“I was somewhat slow to respond to some things when they had been in the public records and hashed and rehashed about the City of Houston’s finances and use of the pension net. The criticisms that lacked basis in fact had been there and been covered by the media and discussed in public forums for years. Frankly, when something was old and stale and proven wrong years ago, with due respect, there were some in the state media playing out the same thing all over again. It seemed so ridiculous on its face to me, when we had managed the city with such fiscal discipline, that people would question otherwise. I was a little slow to react.”
Bill White certainly has some audacity. Thank goodness the state’s political media — as lackluster as it is in many ways — didn’t prove quite as pliable as Jeff Cohen’s newspaper when it came to examining White’s record in Houston. The campaign rhetoric may be exaggerated*, but the problems are hardly imaginary.
- Gov. Rick Perry Invades Kingwood Tea Territory – And They Aren’t Happy (Big Jolly Politics)
* Effective political rhetoric is frequently exaggerated, which is why we are so often amused by PolitiFarceTX announcing that some political statement is exaggerated (in excruciating detail). No, really?! *laugh*
