U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made the following statement regarding Senator John Kerry’s recent remarks disparaging members of the U.S. military.

“The members of the United States armed forces are the best trained, best equipped and best educated fighting force in the world, and it is shameful that a senior Democrat Senator would make them the butt of an apparent joke at a political rally.  Sadly, this is not the first time Senator Kerry has disparaged the men and women in our military.  Less than two years ago, he accused our troops of ‘terrorizing’ Iraqi children – remarks not dissimilar to his Vietnam-era testimony before the Senate in 1971. No one is lying about or distorting Senator’s Kerry’s remarks as he would have us believe.  Senator Kerry’s remarks yesterday were clear and they were shameful.  He owes the brave men and women in our military a very sincere apology.”

Yet another post that writes itself. John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, had this to say at a campaign rally yesterday:

You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

See the video here. And now he’s trying to say that he didn’t say it back when he said it.

Typically pathetic.

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Happy Halloween From the Owner, Staff, and bloggers of Lonestartimes.com

Chris Bell is running out of money for the final week of the poetical political television campaign.

(Houston Chronicle) Democrat Chris Bell’s gubernatorial campaign was sputtering toward running out of cash Monday

At least two Houston television stations — KPRC and KHOU — have no Bell campaign commercials booked or paid for to air after today. Two of Bell’s rival campaigns say that is true at television stations across Texas.

All is not lost dear folks.  Chris has got himself a “Sugar Daddy”.  I think we know who Mr. Bell will be owing his allegiance to.

Bell said late in the day that Houston trial lawyer John O’Quinn had given his campaign another $300,000 to keep his advertising on the air.

Outdone by Kinky no less.  The shame.

Even independent Kinky Friedman entered the home stretch with more cash on hand than Bell. Friedman’s campaign plans to spend $750,000 on television in the last seven days before the Nov. 7 election. And Friedman also is benefiting from about $66,000 in advertising paid for by singer Willie Nelson.

But Chris, are you gone or not?

When reporters asked Bell if his campaign was about to go off network television, he replied: “We’ll see today.” Bell spent the afternoon in Houston trying to raise more money.

Bell campaign manager Jason Stanford said rumors of Bell going dark on TV are premature.

“We have substantial new money that will keep us up as we are now currently. Not going dark. It’s late-breaking. … Scout’s honor,” Stanford said.

“Late-breaking”?  Will we see Chris going door to door trick or treating for pennies?  It is Halloween you know.

This makes my skin crawl. George Soros, a Jew, when he was 14 years old, was “protected” by a man who claimed him to be his adopted son, and worked to help confiscate property from Jews who were being shipped off to concentration camps. Now that alone would be repugnant, but I can also see where a person might do so in order to survive. What gets me, is that he feels no guilt or remorse, or shame in doing so. It was just another day at work for him.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is a disgusting, wretched scumbag:

My brother Tommy deployed this past weekend. He’s a cavalry officer and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Kerry should be ashamed for suggesting that Tommy and the rest of our professional, volunteer force are stupid and uneducated.

Kerry’s willingness to attack his protectors — men far better than himself — clearly shows what a bastard he is.

For the record, I did not place my vote in any of the staff endorsements for the simple reason that I’m no longer registered to vote in Texas. After all, who wants some meddling interloper, a Texas ex-pat, offering his opinion on the upcoming election? I won’t have to live with the results.

HOWEVER… (and you knew this was coming) …I do want to make note of what my vote would have been on the race for governor. I would have gone for Rick Perry, which would have tied the vote 5-5. My vote would have been based on the fact that Perry, although not an excellent governor, has made inroads on some basic conservative positions. It may be a bare minimum, but it’s better than somebody who has the potential to do a great deal of damage during their tenure.

Kinky in particular scares me because he’s quite socially liberal and believes in all kinds of campaign finance reform gobbledegook. I don’t believe he’d be likely to make inroads on either, but if he did I doubt the results would be easily reversed — particularly with public financing of campaigns. I particularly don’t like it when Kinky touts a “lobbying tax” and then turns around and slams Perry’s corporate taxes. It’s hypocritical, as both add to the cost of doing business, thereby increasing the cost of goods and services.

That’s my two cents. Now I get to turn around and vote against Rep. William Jefferson, a much easier choice.

LST’s 2006 “endorsements” are below.

A few notes–

1. “Endorsements” struck us as a little too formal (and Old Media), so please consider these “suggestions for you to consider”
2. We debated the races amongst ourselves, and then voted; whoever voted got to have a say
3. For a variety of reasons, some degree of anonymity about how individual editors voted has been maintained; if folks want to claim a specific vote, they are welcome to do so in comments
4. Don’t see a race/issue? Either we didn’t know anything about it, or didn’t care
5. Debate and disagreement are welcome; whining is not

You have your marching orders. Now OBEY them.

LoneStarTimes.com suggests you consider voting for Dwayne Bohac for State Representative, District 138.

1. He supports appraisal caps
2. He voted against the business tax
3. The Houston Chronicle thinks Mark McDavid, Bohac’s Democrat opponent, is the better candidate.

What more do you need to know?

Bohac for State Rep. 138

By unanimous consent, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you might want to think about voting for Kay Bailey Hutchison for US Senate.

True, she’s no “Phil-is” Gramm, but then again few are.

Vote for Kay and feel better about yourself defecting from the straight-party GOP ballot down the line.

By unanimous sentiment, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you might want to think about voting for Ted Poe for US Congress, District 2.

Most of us still like him from his days as a wacky “hanging judge” back home, and he appears to be behaving himself up in D.C.

Benzion notes and thanks Congressman Poe for his active and rock-solid commitment to a strong U.S.-Israel partnership.

LoneStarTimes.com suggests you might want to think about voting for John Culberson for US Congress, District 7.

Among the many reasons to support Culberson’s re-election bid:

1. Pisses off the Houston Chronicle
2. Makes Paul Bettencourt sound calm and reasonable by comparison
3. Personally responsible for killing 7 Hizballah operatives attempting to cross the border from Mexico into Texas

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As the above graph aptly demonstrates, Congressman Culberson has accrued an outstanding conservative voting record– although the 5% AFSCME rating has us a little worried– don’t start going soft on us John. (Just kidding.)

Benzion notes and thanks Congressman Culberson for his active and rock-solid commitment to a strong U.S.-Israel partnership.

In the race to represent the 22nd District in Congress, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you think about voting against Nick Lampson representing you.

The vast majority of LST contributors suggest voting (twice!) for Shelley Sekula-Gibbs to accomplish this task, despite a lack of genuine enthusiasm for SSG. Her nanny-state anti-smokingism hasn’t gone down well around here, and many LST contributors promise to work to take her out in the next primary if she somehow manages to win this time.

By a 5-4 vote, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you consider voting for Kinky Friedman for Governor.

By a 9-0 vote, LoneStarTimes.com’s contributing editors are unanimous in expressing their disgust and disappointment in Gov. Rick Perry.

The following sentiment, expressed in the course of our internal, confidential email debate does a good job of capturing the perspective of the Rick Perry supporters:

A caller to Dan yesterday put it well. He said something like “I’m angry and disgusted with Rick Perry. But I’m scared of Chris Bell.” While it pains me to say it, I believe a vote for Kinky is a vote for Bell, so I have to incredibly begrudgingly say Perry.

Man that hurts to type that. Really, really bad.

And although this next comment is neither here nor there, it is simply too funny not to share with the world:

I’m voting for Rick Perry. He has a strong signature on silent auction baseballs and he’s more clean shaven than Granny.

Heh.

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All jokes aside, our disappointment in Gov. Perry could hardly be greater.

The things he’s gotten “right” are the bare minimum that should be expected of a Republican Governor of Texas.

Pro-life? Didn’t spend as much money as fast as the Democrats would of if they had been in power? Maintained the death-penalty? Appointed conservative judges? Defended traditional marriage? Off-set a massive tax increase in one place with sorta a tax decrease somewhere else? Finally, after too-long ignoring the problem, did something to somewhat help secure the border?

Dude– these aren’t accomplishments– these are bare necessities. You don’t get “points” for this, or gratitude. That’s your damn job.

We didn’t hire you to run out and hike the ball three times before punting, all the while looking good in your uniform. You got hired to move the ball down the field and put some points on the board.

By that metric, your “leadership” has sucked.

And we’ve got zero reason to think it’s going to improve, should you win re-election.

Don’t like what you’re reading? Prove us wrong.

Hopefully, Rick Perry won’t even get the chance. Because a majority of us have decided to take the plunge and actually cast our ballots for Kinky Friedman.

Not all of that support for Kinky can be dismissed as a mere “protest” vote against Perry.

The simple fact is that on a lot of issues Kinky is quite conservative– most notably on controlling the border, appraisal caps, the “Trans-Texas Corridor” (of which we have diverse opinions at LST), prayer in school and–broadly speaking– the “de-Wussification of Texas.”

Is he a bigger supporter of abortion than we are? Yup. Less a fan of the death penalty? True. More comfortable with gambling as a revenue stream? Sure. Blase about “gay” vs. traditional marriage? Absolutely.

Luckily, even if he wins, there will be very little a Gov. Friedman could do, by himself, about nearly all of these or any other topic.

In fact, we are prepared to guarantee you that after four years of a Kinky administration, gays will not be gambling their aborted fetuses on street-corners to bail their murdering life-partners out of jail so they can head to the local casino.

This is TEXAS, for goodness sake. If you can’t see that, you deserve to be manipulated by the direct-mail consultants of the establishment GOP.

HEY! SNAP OUT OF IT!!! Do you worship God, or Government?

Texas is not going to fall apart if Kinky is governor– it might not be “judge of the Chili cook-off” as he’s joked, but neither it is President of the United States. There is still a legislature and still a Lieutenant Governor– who, as we note elsewhere, is certainly a competent individual and would be able to provide “adult supervision” if, God forbid, a dirty-bomb were to go off in Dallas and Gov. Friedman were not able to rise to the occasion. (And we aren’t at all convinced that he wouldn’t be, for what it’s worth.)

As liberty-loving Republicans, we’ve got no problem with “average” voters witnessing the fact that Texas will not slide off its axis and disconnect from the Earth if its government isn’t run by a “professional.”

That might even be a good thing.

Perhaps the most important reason to vote for Kinky Friedman, however, is to provide at least some hope of eventually returning the Texas Republican party to its conservative, limited-government roots.

If Rick Perry wins, the battle is already lost. Anyone who thinks that he or they will have “really gotten scared this time” and are going to “shape up and return to the grassroots base” is deluding themselves.

The only way politicians and political parties learn lessons is through pain. Not persuasion. Not pressure. Pain.

If Rick Perry wins, he and the comfortable-with-government crowd will not have learned a darn thing– other than the fact that they can manipulate you successfully. They will be laughing. At YOU. Laughing.

Rhetoric aside, it will be back to business as usual in under two weeks. And you will stomp your feet and wail and complain, and there won’t be a darn thing you can do about it. Because he’ll be the Governor. Because you returned him to power.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

But what about Chris Bell? Didn’t we learn from the whole Perot/Clinton fiasco? How can we live with ourselves if by not voting for Perry we allow a declared liberal Democrat to slide into the Governor’s mansion through the backdoor?

We are very, very sympathetic to this argument. For what it is worth, our reading of the political landscape allows for a reasonable possibility that Kinky Friedman can actually win this thing, regardless of what the polls are saying.

We’re not saying it’s very likely– we’re just saying it’s feasible. The chances are certainly better than the Mainstream Media would have you believe.

But we’re not going to go into greater detail right now for fear of altering the situation and making that possibility less likely. We’ll see.

But we will say this–even if Bell were to slide in, our premise doesn’t change. Pain teaches lessons. Nothing else will. Wish it weren’t so, but it is. A Bell administration would be terribly painful. But we, and Texas, would survive it.

The comfortable-with-government crowd in the GOP establishment wouldn’t. We can promise you that, for sure.

Ultimately, every one of us, readers included, is going to have to do a gut-check and decide whether you want to vote out of fear of what might become, or hope for what might be.

We encourage you to vote Kinky Friedman for Governor.

“Im tirtzu, ein zo agada.” If you will it, it is not a dream.

The contributing editors of LoneStarTimes.com suspect that you are as depressed about this race as we are.

The good news is that incumbent David Dewhurst is certain to win re-election, so readers are free to vote for him and be on the winning side if that’s how they feel, or to cast protest votes if they so wish.

Some LST contributors plan on voting for “Skip” Dewhurst (i.e., not casting a ballot in the race at all), to help lower the Lt. Governor’s vote total and send a message of disappointment. Most were simply too demoralized to offer much of an opinion.

A minority faction among us will be casting their ballots FOR Dewhurst as part of a larger strategic voting plan that includes supporting Kinky Friedman for Governor.

While we are as disappointed in the Lt. Governor’s lame leadership on the agenda of limited government as everyone else, we do give Dewhurst credit for being a bright, competent individual who is a “grown-up” when it comes to the business of state government. If a dirty-bomb goes off in Dallas during a Friedman administration, we’ll feel more comfortable with David Dewhurst sitting in the Lt. Governor’s office, providing some “adult supervision.”

UPDATED– Checking our official LST email inbox before retiring for the evening we found this.

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I want to be clear, this is not a PhotoShop or a parody cartoon, but an ACTUAL email sent out by the Lt. Governor of the State of Texas.

With a fat little baby in a Bumble Bee costume in it.

Like we noted in the gubernatorial endorsement thread–they are laughing at you, Sheeple.

Despite his perfidious betrayal of the limited government cause in the early rounds of CLOUT’s lawsuit (which is by no means over, btw), LoneStarTimes.com suggests you might want to consider voting for Greg Abbott for Texas Attorney General.

He’s better than most of our current “leaders” in the state GOP, and the last time we checked, “Texas Justice” was still something to be feared.

The SpellChecker, whose position in government requires anonymity, makes this serious point:

Abbott. Reasonable, sense of the law. His opinions are rendered quickly, on point and moves on. Doesnt reinvent the wheel or the Constitution. His staff responds to investigations and even though they did not indict the smirk out of the Friendswood School District for being evil, corrupt collusionist mono-planetarians, at least they take complaints seriously and soberly. Abbott and his sober staff.

Sobriety has its place. LST ain’t it, but the Attorney General’s office is. Abbott for AG.

By majority consent, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you might want to think about voting for Susan Combs for Texas Comptroller.

We like the fact that she’s written a porny/horny novel. As Bramanti noted during our internal discussions…

Even nerdy chicks have a freak in ‘em. Record of cutting budgets in previous jobs.

Sounds good to us.

By unanimous consent, LoneStartimes.com suggests you might want to think about voting for Jerry Patterson for Texas Land Commissioner.

The SpellChecker, who appears to be most informed, notes:

Jerry Patterson hands down. He’s from here, he understands the office. He’s brought more money than any of his predecessors, right here to the coastal counties to help with erosion, rebuilds, and buybacks. He has an active leadership in the public v private lands debate. He has closed loopholes and chased out whiners in the public access to beaches arena; he has restored and revamped the historical land documents section of his office’s oversight. He’s available to constituents.

He’s cool, he’s concealed; he’s a family man and team player. He gets my vote.

Benzion adds bonus points for catching Patterson a few months ago on NPR’s Morning Edition; showing off the pistol he carries in his cowboy boots, Patterson flummoxed the East Coast reporter by mocking Massachusetts for falling behind Texas in pursuit of alternative energy solutions like wind power.

Heh.

By unanimous consent, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you consider voting for Dan Patrick for Texas Senate, District 7.

If Kinky Friedman were a Republican, Evangelical, socially-conservative Gentile, his name would be “Dan Patrick.”

• Both are entertaining.
• Both are unpredictable.
• Both appear to be genetically compelled to speak their minds, regardless of consequence.
• And both, once in office, will make the professional political class absolutely miserable.

Think of all the people a Senator Dan Patrick is destined to annoy the Hell out of:

1. The editors of the Houston Chronicle
2. Lt. Governor David Dewhurst
3. “Collegial” fellow Senators
4. RINO State Representatives
5. Taxpayer-funded lobbying groups like the Texas Municipal League and Texas Association of Counties

If Dan manages to accomplish all that while failing completely to lower our property taxes by a single penny or stop even one illegal alien from crossing the border, we will consider his term in office a success.

Which is not to say that we agree with him on every issue, or that he’s perfect. Dan would be the first person to admit that he sometimes makes mistakes–most notably, in our view, his failure to appreciate the tremendous commercial potential of a daily, libertarian-leaning, Jewish-flavored talk-show heavy on Generation-X style humor and blogger-esque sarcasm.

But now is not the time to be petty.

Dan Patrick is a good man who, however much he may stumble in the process, usually manages to end up in the right place, doing the right thing when it is all said and done.

That’s a lot more than can be said for most folks, ourselves included.

Most importantly, we believe he cares infinitely more about maintaining and honoring the special relationship he has developed with his radio audience over the years than he will about maintaining his own power or honoring himself.

That’s a good thing. LoneStarTimes.com looks forward to Dan Patrick going to Austin to be Our Voice.

LoneStarTimes.com suggests you consider voting for Talmadge Heflin for State Representative, District 149.

1. He knows an awful lot about the budget and how Austin works
2. People we know who are genuine fiscal conservatives vouch for Heflin’s fiscal conservativism
3. If he wins, it will be in no small part due to the efforts of Dan Patrick, who has done significant block-walking, public endorsements and field work for Heflin– Dan can use a fiscally savvy friend on the House side of things

Hubert Vo seems like a nice guy, but he’s a liberal Democrat, and we ain’t. Although we do appreciate the full Vietnamese buffet his campaign provided to LST headquarters as we deliberated who to endorse in this race.*

Heflin for State Representative, District 149.
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* Just kidding.

LoneStarTimes.com suggests you consider voting for Beverly Kaufman for Harris County Clerk.

Pretty much everyone we know thinks she’s doing a good job.

By unanimous consent (actually, most of us couldn’t bring ourselves to care, but Ree-C felt strongly about it), LoneStarTimes.com suggests you might want to think about voting for Charles Bacarisse for Harris Co. District Clerk.

From what we can tell, Bacarisse has successfully prevented having the records down at the District Clerk’s office from getting wet or somehow destroyed in a fire.

We suppose that is as good a reason as any other to return him to office.

By a 3 to 1 vote, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you consider voting for Richard Garcia for Harris County Treasurer.

There are just two things you need to know about Richard Garcia:

1. His entire campaign is devoted to a single promise–to completely abolish the wasteful, redundant and unnecessary office of Harris County Treasurer; AND
2. He’s not Orlando Sanchez

Let’s start with #1.

In theory, there is a place for the office of county treasurer–that of an independent watchdog. We disagree with, but can respect someone voting for Sanchez because they hope he will provide that oversight.

You’re not going to get it, of course. For one thing, the office of county treasurer isn’t truly independent– so there are institutional factors discouraging genuine watchdog-type behavior.

Which brings us to #2.

Even if it were possible for someone to perform a watchdog function in this role, there is absolutely zero reason to believe that Orlando Sanchez is capable of filling it.

His “business” record, such as it is, is paper-thin. Our favorite insight, however, came the one time we took a close look at a Sanchez financial disclosure report and realized that he was earning a nice salary as an “investment advisor,” but wasn’t actually listing any income from investments himself.

So… apparently Sanchez’ understanding of the market is so savvy that folks are prepared to let him guide their investing… but for some reason he just chooses not to invest his own money and earn a tidy profit himself.

What is wrong with that picture?

Let’s face facts– Sanchez running for office under the GOP banner was a “clever” gimmick whose time has long passed. There is nothing wrong with the Republican Party trying to recruit a Hispanic candidate for any particular office– but Sanchez is a proven (and proven, and proven) loser.

Not to mention that he’s played the race card. And he’s sucked-up to the liberal editors of the Houston Chronicle.

What the Hell is wrong with you people? Why is ANYONE considering voting for this guy?

Let us be clear– we don’t doubt that on a personal level Sanchez is a nice guy. And he’s almost certainly no more an idiot than many, perhaps most politicians. A LOT of people holding public office are chuckle-heads who prefer politics to working in the real world.

And we’ll give him this– he would have been a better mayor than Lee P. Brown. If you want to consider that an endorsement, fine.

But people, please.

Limited government conservatives– your bluff is being called. You bitch and moan on the radio every day of the year about eliminating the waste, inefficiency and expense of government. Now is the time to put up or shut-up.

Richard Garcia for Harris County Treasurer– it is a job nobody needs, and one Orlando Sanchez doesn’t deserve.

By unanimous consent, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you consider voting “NO” on every Proposition on the Houston city ballot, “A” through “G” (especially “G”).

Unless you think city government has become as efficient and penny-pinching as possible, in which case you should find the Propositions that sound “nice” to you and vote “Yes” to tax future generations so that you can enjoy a warm, fuzzy feeling.

[Editorial Note: The following endorsement was written by contributing editor Rorschach, who has been following this issue much more closely than the rest of us. It should be noted that Messrs. Blanton, Holsey, and Crowder have been paying advertisers on LST. It should also be noted that LST has extended opportunities for Charlotte Lampe to feature her perspective on all these issues–for free–on the frontpage of LST. That offer still stands.]

LoneStarTimes.com suggests that you might want to consider voting for Fred Blanton, Dr. David Holsey, and J.B. Crowder for the three open positions for the NHMCCD Board of Trustees, and against the $250 million bond referendum.

Over the last few years the board’s focus and behavior has changed considerably. Dr. John Pickelman, current NHMCCD Chancellor, has changed the way the college spends money radically from the way W.W. Thorne did when the College District was first founded.

The college district used to operate with a budget surplus and was exceedingly frugal in the way funds were expended. And the current Board of Trustees has rubber stamped virtually every wish and desire of the Chancellor’s office. Including allowing him to go on “sabbatical” in order to lobby both the state legislature and the US Congress in violation of both NHMCCD’s sabbatical rules, as well as the State ethics laws, and allowed him to continue to use the NHMCCD funds and credit cards in order to do so.

Today the district operates in a deficit mode and has so far been able to control the tax rate only by paying the debt forward. But those chickens will eventually come home to roost to the tune of up to 80 cents per $100 of valuation from a current 11.67 cents per $100 valuation. And the trustees have allowed it to happen.

Pickelman has announced he is retiring, but through connections with the search firm that he has hand picked to find his successor, he will essentially be hand picking his successor. Again the Trustees have sat idly by and allowed it to happen. The Board should not be rubber stamping the Chancellor, the board should be leading and telling the chancellor what is what, not the other way around.

Despite the illegalities of electioneering and lobbying by public officials, the board and the chancellor’s office and staff have continued to violate the ethics laws repeatedly. Under the agreement with the Justice Department that the board agreed to in order to avoid more serious prosecution for their failed non-election in May, the Board agreed to publish all election materials in Spanish and Vietnamese, but they have failed to do so.

While we agree that multiple language materials are a waste of governmental resources and taxpayer monies since a working knowledge of the English language is a requirement to apply for citizenship (and of course you have to be a citizen to vote), it IS the law, and the board agreed to do so and have reneged on that promise. The board needs to show some spine and some leadership, the current crop on the board has shown neither.

Since the failed May election, a number of other candidates have tossed their hats in the ring. Most hail from the same area, Cy-Fair. One, Charlotte Lampe, served both on the bond steering committee that gave us the Berry Edification Center, as well as worked to get most of the current Cy-Fair board elected and has publicly said that while she does not currently support this bond referendum, would entertain one at a later date. She has also supported some of the current board members in their re-election efforts previously.

It would appear then that these Johnny-come-lately’s have entered the race with one purpose in mind, dilute the anti-incumbent voting block such that the only candidate that will be able to win is the incumbent. I urge you so see past that ploy.

In Galveston County, LoneStarTimes.com suggests you might want to consider voting for…

• Albert Choate for Galveston County Commissioner Precinct Two
• Miles Whittington for Judge of the 212th
• Jon Hall for District Attorney
• Barbara Meeks for County Clerk

Truthfully, we don’t know that much about Galveston County political affairs, but The SpellChecker is an absolute authority on these matters, and all these candidates have been declared “kosher.”

Choate is a member of CLOUT and has been endorsed by everyone from Ron Paul, to Jerry Patterson, to Larry Taylor and Robert Talton.

Miles Whittington is also member of CLOUT, a former Bush appointee to the 212th and is running a tight race.

Jon Hall just picked up the Galveston County Daily News endorsement for DA over the incumbent as did Republican Barbara Meeks for County Clerk.

Kudos to political consultant Onzelo Markum III, for bringing his A-game, putting on his hustle, and making sure campaigns that are important to him were brought to our attention.

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