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District 67 Race heats up (and not nicely)

01/16/08

09:32:45 pm, by bill

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Categories: Observer Opinions, Politics

District 67 Race heats up (and not nicely)

It looks like one of the real races to watch will be the Texas House District 67 GOP primary race between veteran Jerry Madden and newcomer Jon Cole.

Cole's campaign website brags that it is using Nevada political consultant Ryan Erwin & Associates. Erwin is mostly targeting anti-Craddick Democrats, but in this race is working to unseat Madden, a conservative and supporter of Speaker Craddick.

Cole has very quickly challenged Madden on his record, and has done so in a very partisan way.

Gone is any attempt at civility or GOP fellow-good-guy campaigning. This is old-fashioned, shoot-em-up, nasty Texas politics.

This week, I've gotten first-hand reports that Cole or his supporters have begun "push polling" to Republican primary voters. Push polling is a unsavory form of deceptive campaigning where a campaign worker telephones voters and falsely introduces himself as a pollster, asking leading questions designed to make the opponent look bad.

This morning, Mike Huckabee was on NPR radio condemning push polling, done on his behalf and against Mitt Romney, in South Carolina. Meanwhile here in Texas, Cole or his supporters are doing exactly what Huckabee wants to be made illegal. Is it not ironic that Cole's consultant, Erwin, is described on Cole's website as a Romney adviser?

Both candidates can and should be sharing their vision of Texas and Collin County. The issues both these gentlemen debate can be as deep as their respective intellects or as shallow as their tactics.

I've no personal favorites in this race (I vote in the other primary), but I dislike push polling and mean spirited attacks. These kind of tactics honor neither the candidate who resorts to them nor his ideals - they only serve to disgust voters, driving them away from the polls.

Bill

Note: Grits for Breakfast has an insightful post on the District 67 race.

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District 67 Race heats up (and not nicely)

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