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Tuesdays at the Coliseum - Round 3?

10/02/08

11:50:33 pm, by bill

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Categories: Observer Opinions, Politics

Tuesdays at the Coliseum - Round 3?

Earlier this week, I got this postcard in the mail. It had no return address and the political ad disclaimer was for "Citizens to Oust Idiots". A look up at the Texas Ethics Commission shows no political group registered under that name.

So who sent these out? Four color postcards with stamps are expensive. I know I didn't send these, and no Democrat I know of would waste campaign dollars in 2008 on an official who is not up for re-election until 2010.

Most of the folks I've spoken to at the courthouse suspect this is a shot fired "over the bow" at Hoagland in retaliation for his recent attacks on Keith Self.

Now I'm not saying Self is responsible...I have no evidence that he is. But after watching some of the dirty campaign tactics used in the last GOP primary, I am convinced there is an element in the Collin County GOP more than willing to use this kind of anonymous, nasty trick - with or without Judge Self's expressed permission.

Inquiring minds wonder what's in store for Round 4.

Bill

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Comment from: Philip W. Moore, Jr. [Visitor]

Whoever did this has more than a sense of humor. I'm thinking of somebody willing to make the biggest joke in Collin County (Hoagland, in my honest and confident enough opinion to say in the public realm) eat some crow for some very, very stupid comments that he's made in the public arena. I mean, we're talking about stuff he's said to the press or in open session of the Commissioners Court, not out of frustration after spilling coffee in his lap after somebody cut him off in traffic on the way home from the office.

Permalink 10/03/08 @ 01:23

Comment from: anon [Visitor]

One would be hard pressed to find an uglier picture of Hoagland. This looks like an angry joke.

I bet it is someone Bill knows since this card does not seem to have been sent en masse. However, it really doesn't matter other than for idle curiosity.

Permalink 10/04/08 @ 08:54

Comment from: David "Mitch" Stow [Visitor]

I still remember Jerry Hoagland, from a meeting over whether we should give medical insurance to the hard working Collin County poor. He changed the subject to illegal immigration and said that undocumented people should not get help. When a lady told him that their kids, many of whom were legal U.S. citizens by right of birth, would be sitting right next to her own children, and wanted them to be healthy and not spread disease, he paid no real attention. Then, someone mentioned the story of the Good Samaritan, which is a story where Jesus answered the question who our should be considered our neighbors. The Pharisee passed by without helping a wounded traveler, but the Samaritan, whom those of Judea considered outcasts, he stopped and helped and left the traveler with another and told them to help also and that he would pay. Then Jesus asked, "Who showed himself to be a neighbor to this traveler?" Obviously this story tells us that everyone is our neighbor and that we should help our neighbors. Jerry Hoagland told everyone that this story didn't apply to the situation, and that undocumented people were not our neighbors. Seems Jerry wanted to leave the working poor by the side of the road, and meanwhile give his wife and himself a financial raise at the cost of those same people who pay sales tax here everyday, and buy things literally with their hard under paid labor and exhaustion. It makes you wonder what Jesus will say to Jerry on that last day of judgment, but more importantly, what will we say to him the next time he tries to run for office? I did not vote for him the last time, and I certainly never will.
MITCH

Permalink 10/04/08 @ 11:30

Comment from: David \"Mitch\" Stow [Visitor]

My apologies to Bill who is far too polite to say all that I have said here. But I felt it needed to be said. The real issue of course in this next election is the welfare of Collin County, where we live and where many of us work. It certainly isn't a time for distractions. We have seen the policies of the past and some of the results. We desperately need a positive change of direction. Bill stays on top of the issues in our area, and we would all do well to pay close attention to what he is saying during this current election year. It's good to know there is someone we can trust for calm rational well thought out advice.

Permalink 10/04/08 @ 11:41

Comment from: bill [Member]

Let me say it again.

I had nothing to do with this post card. None of my friends had anything to do with it.

I don't believe it came from any Democrat, instead I suspect the mailing was part of an internal local GOP power struggle.

Bill

Permalink 10/05/08 @ 03:17

Comment from: anon [Visitor]

I doubt Bill had anything to do with this card either. It just is not his style.

Permalink 10/05/08 @ 07:22