So how about this? Chris Bell jumps on board the publicity wave going on with Texas Parks right now, he nails Rick Perry, and he gets his own press coverage:
Bell presses Perry on park money
Bell hammers Perry over park funding
Democratic candidate offers state parks funding fix
Bell takes issue with funding woes for parks
Fuckin' A it's about time. Strayhorn's name isn't in that headline at all. Seriously with all this crap about the "race for second place" and establishing yourself as the "only viable alternative", it seems everyone has forgotten that this is about beating Rick Perry, not winning 2nd place. Carole, keep chiseling away at Perry. Kinky, keep pointing out that it's still politics as usual. Chris, stick to your guns, hit Perry and offer your alternatives. He's the reason every one of you got in this race, he should the person you're running against.
Anyways that's what I think. Feel free to disregard it though, I'm pretty drunk right now.
Sidenote: commentor Mike pointed out to me that Chris Bell has a MySpace page that I neglected to include in my little ditty about politicians and their social networking pages. My apologies, you can find his page here (you can also find PD's MySpace here). If anyone knows of any other candidates floating around out there, feel free to leave a comment or shoot me an email.
It's not a defining campaign issue. but it's a great summer issue, when no one's paying attention to anything else b/c they're all on vacation (at state parks, perhaps?). Let's not suggest their clueless when they do things right, mk?
they're, not their. call me clueless.
OMG. are you serious with this shit?
stem cells and parks are NOT going to win this election. at least carole is railing against perry for the TTC and winning every farmer in texas, and kinky seems to own education and definitely renewable energy.
bell gets ink on stem cells and parks, and you think this is progress?
OMG, you are so totally right!! Like, I don't know what I was, like, thinking?
/end snark
Carole ain't winning every farmer in Texas -- she's making more enemies than friends at most of those meetings, b/c the democratic statewides are calling her out for being two-faced. So, well done idiot comment there.
And whenever you get your name in every headline across the state, it's good. ONE DAY is good -- it's OK to be positive for one day. Trust me -- it won't kill that superiority thing you've got going from your "anonymous" armchair.
Anonymous assholes!
I think the parks issue is big, and RP hasn't done enough, but if Chris Bell or anyone else thinks that this is a winning campaign issue, then they're more politically clueless than Tony Sanchez.