Saturday, March 18, 2006
Throwing the Democratic Bums out
I support Boris Miles for TX State Rep. 146. Kick the anti-sexy cheerleader bum Al Edwards out. Al Edwards biggest fundraiser has been the GOP Austin leadership.
Check my other endorsements on the left side.
Do we need to throw all the old Texas Democratic leaders out? I am serious. Texas Democrats have John Sharp, last election's candidate for Lt. Guv providing cover for Perry on school financing and ruling out discussion of a state income tax. Then we have Tony Sanchez, the candidate for Guv openly supporting Republican-Independent Strayhorn. This means the Democratic candidates for Texas' highest offices were Republican except for the party label they ran under. It has also been pointed out that Sanchez gave $200,000 to Bush's recount efforts in Florida and Sharp is a big Bush supporter.
What about the little fish in the leadership pool? The new Democratic candidates for the state house in the Houston area with only one exception have found all of the present Houston area Democratic Austin officials unwilling to provide support of any kind. Their reason - in every case they didn't want to upset the GOP incumbents .
With Texas leadership like this no wonder progressives are reluctant to support the Democratic party.
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I have to agree with your assessment of Texas democrats. Unless something changes, I don't think I'll be able to hold my nose and vote democratic this time.
Sorry, meant to say I'm in the Fort Worth area.
The Texas Kos Yahoo group email list has been illuminating on how bad things are for Democrats in rural areas. The old leadership are often almost openly Republicans who have crossed over to run the other party too.
There is a book coming out next week that is going to be about this and how to fight it - Foxes in the Henhouse. http://tinyurl.com/g7buo
My advice, which I will repeat on my blog soon, is you have to become the party. It is easier than you think.
Locally we had complaints about how our Senate District leadership made arrangements among the leaders for the people it sent to various committees but I understand new rural Democratic delegates weren't even told about meetings.
A majority of the party at the convention which you complained about in your blog were progressives. The leadership wasn't. That could be shown by resolutions that made it to the floor and got passed.
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