[Note: A version of this appears on my personal blog.]
In today’s mail, I received not one, not two, but three different pieces of mail from you for your campaign. Not one of them seek to establish you as the most qualified candidate in the race for the District Attorney’s Office. Rather, they are all negative campaign pieces against Kelly Siegler.
When you did do your 11th hour announcement for your candidacy, I was disappointed, but not surprised. Face it, you like to run for things. It was nothing personal. You had your ideas. The other candidates had theirs. That’s what the Democratic process is all about, right?
But then you took such a turn, didn’t you? You realized that an ex-judge that last held elected office in the last millennium (1994) and had never tried a criminal case couldn’t hold a candle to a brilliant trial attorney like Kelly Siegler.
Siegler won tough cases like Dror Goldberg and David Temple against arguably the most skilled and reputable defense attorney in the State of Texas, Dick DeGuerin. In what was billed as a “Clash of the Titans”, Kelly Siegler made the District Attorney’s Office proud.
How could you compete with that?
The short answer: You couldn’t.
So you resorted to every last low-rent, muckraking, and scummy tactic that you could possibly resort to.
In a Country that prides itself on letting “the best candidate win”, you strive to do nothing more than trying to drag your opposition down the bog that you seem to politically dwell in. You found your greatest enabler in the morally decrepit and despicable Terry Lowry, and even he charged you $5,000 to help spread your desperation.
Of all three mailers that I got on your behalf tonight, nothing in your lists of qualifications brings you even close to Kelly Siegler. To put it bluntly, even I am more qualified for this Office than you are.
Perhaps the most incredibly dishonest and despicable thing you listed (out of a field of many) is your first item on your latest mail out. Under the heading of “Tainted Evidence”, you wrote:
Used evidence obtained by deceit causing the reversal of two killers’ death sentence convictions. Siegler brags about the conviction — but doesn’t talk about the reversals, or the agony of the victim’s family having to endure two trial, again!
In those two sentences, you absolutely, positively prove yourself to be a liar and a shameless one at that.
Both of the “two killers” cases centered around the murder of Farrah Fratta. You, as a former judge, would know better than anyone that the reversals had nothing to do with any sort of misconduct on the part of Kelly Siegler or the State of Texas. And yet you continue to mislead the general public about what was the true reasoning behind it.
And of the “victim’s family having to endure two trials again” (one of which has already been sentenced to death again), the father of Farrah Fratta is a man named Lex Baqer. You speak on his behalf without his request or his desire.
Lex Baqer is one of the victims who personally spoke on Kelly Siegler’s radio commercials, commending her for a job well done. He also took time out of schedule to go walk door-to-door for Kelly during her campaign.
You don’t speak for him.
And you should be ashamed of pretending that you do.
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AHCL, great article. Keep them coming. I noticed at the District meeting Saturday, there were a lot of Lykos supporters. The amazing thing was most of them looked just like her. Clones. How is Kelly polling? Have you any idea? I’m worried for her.
“Used evidence obtained by deceit causing the reversal of two killers’ death sentence convictions. Siegler brags about the conviction — but doesn’t talk about the reversals, or the agony of the victim’s family having to endure two trial, again!
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Lykos, as a FORMER Judge, knowingly saw the fact that Kelly got convictions based on evidence and caused nothing. Lykos is twisting and lying to try to obtain another “publicly funded” job.
Vote Siegler and lets keep an experienced, dedicated prosecutor in the office yet now as the head D. A.
Why would one vote for Lykos, considering she hangs around such sleazebags?
I’m for Ms. Siegler because I’ve always had a thing for tough, aggressive women. Of course I’m also poverty stricken as a result of selecting women of this type for mates, but that’s immaterial to this writing. It’s time to unleash one of these she demons on the Harris County criminal element and shred them like a pack of wild dogs. Go Kelly, go.
Since Lykos, who is not qualified, is running against Seigler, who is highly qualified, Lykos has no choice but to try to deceive the voters into voting against her opponent.
How can such an UNETHICAL person as Lykos hope to bring ethics back to the DA’s office?
Great post AHCL. I’m just now going through my stack of mail and I’m about to throw out my “LINK Letter” from Terry Lowry. Despicable.
This old timer already voted by mail for Kelly Seigler on her dynamics as a prosecutor. All of Lykos stuff in my postal box is now trash-mail.
Lowry is pure trash and has been trash for years.
I’ve worked campaigns before where he has solicited both sides for an “advertisement.” He offers an endorsement to one side with the ad purchase, then goes to the other side and asks them to top the previous bid. Then suddenly the “advertisement” that initially cost $5,000 is up to $10,000 or $15,000 because he bids the two candidates against each other.
One of the candidates I worked with saw right through this game and finally told him no more. Lowry responded by smearing the guy for the next month. Now he’s doing the same to Kelly Siegler.
I’m no fan of the various sleaze machines that appear every republican primary (and they know who they are), but Lowry is a class onto himself of sleaziness. By the way, Lowry has received tens of thousands of dollars in “contract work” for “voter mobilization” from the Harris County Republican Party in the last 5 years. Remember that the next time you see Jared Woodfill, and the next time he asks you for a contribution to an HCRP fundraiser. Demand assurances that Lowry be cut loose once and for all.
One other thing that tells you what kind of business Terry Lowry is in: he never endorses in races where he isn’t paid.
This includes clear-cut races between conservatives and RINOs where the choice should be a no-brainer for any “Christian conservative” publication (e.g. Pete Olsen over SSG). But since neither purchases an endorsement from him he stays out.
This is a good piece. We need more straight talk like this. Candidates for any office need to be exposed when they are not being honest in their dealings. It would do them all well to remember: “nothing ruins the truth like stretching it”.
Go Kelly Go. Wish I could vote for you, except I live in Fort Bend County. You’ve got the right stuff, lady.
You know one of the very few things that bugs me about Kelly (and this is nitpicking haha) is that she showed up to the convention in like a tshirt and jeans…did anyone else find that a bit odd? I kind of felt like that didn’t help her if she was going to sway any last minute changing minds. Am I just weird? It just seemed kind of unprofessional… (and no I did not go in just a tshirt hehe)
Meglet, I did find that a little surprising, however it did seem to fit with her “down in the trenches” speech. I think she most likely did it because she was wearing a Kelly Siegler campaign T-shirt.
What bothers me the most is Lykos’ ad is the statement she would restore integrity to the District Attorney’s office. It is in my opinion that most if not all of the attorneys in that office have tons of integrity. What a slap in the face to potential employees. They all work for government pay against the most high powered attorneys in the world. Yea Chuck was bad but that did not tarnish the District Attorney’s office where integrity needs to be restored. And for all you conservative Republicans that participated in “Operation Chaos”, who are you going to hurt or help now. Get out and vote today for Ms. Siegler.
Terry Lowry’s “LINK LETTER” lacks credibility, and is worthless. I hope he gets the message soon.
#15
Terry does not care what anyone thinks about the newsletter as long as he conitues to profit from it.
Between Lykos and Shelly Succubus-Gibbs, this runoff is a real stinker.
When I listened to Siegler and Lykos at the convention, Siegler sounded like she cared about the job. Truly cared. Lykos sounded like a cheerleader for herself.
I didn’t find Siegler’s t-shirt put-offing. She was very down-to-earth and businesslike in her demeanor, and her apparel fit her demeanor. There was integrity between her demeanor and her appearance.
I also noticed the plethora of Lykos stickers on people. As I passed the Siegler table, I grabbed one and slapped it on, telling the table-tenders “I’m doing this to pith off thome people.” They smiled really big and thanked me. I noticed more Siegler stickers as the day went on.
Everone needs to go vote and take a family member or friend with them. Lets hope that Seigler can win or we may be looking for a new county to move to. If she looses a lot of very good D.A’s will be leaving, or handed walking papers by Lykos, and going into the Defense side of the business. Believe me that will not be good thing for Harris County. VOTE SEIGLER.
Pat Lykos will be getting as many votes as we can muster here in the northwest harris county. She was the only county official that helped us stop two state supported low income housing projects (similar to section 8). These projects would have seen the housing of hundreds of the worst of east New Orleans Katrina evacuees in the middle of three new NW neighborhoods. Dan Patrick was asked for his help on this iuuse, but told us that he was to busy with his radio station to do anything. Well Dan you were to busy to help then, now the chickens have come home to roost my friend. A large number of us in your senate district owe Pat a big favor, and I for one intend to pay her back. One thing i do agree with though, this Terry Lowry character is as worthless as they come!
FYI: The problem projects I refer to here where the old proposed TDHCA WCA and RCA that we did end up stopping with Pats guidance in the end.
How did Pat Lykos help? What did she do?
Kelly Siegler has my vote!
#20 Lykos helps stop a housing project in your district and that qualifies her to be a District Attorney ? Please consider voting for the best qualified person, not someone you believe you owe a favor to.
#20 RO
I’m glad Pat Lykos helped your neighborhood with preventing those projects. However, there is nothing in your story which sheds any light on her actual qualifications for being Harris County’s District Attorney. I’ll reserve my support for Kelly Siegler, a proven prosecutor.
It is now starting to come out that the latest negative mailer from Lykos was funded by Eckels’s leftover campaign funds. He ran the money through the GOP PAC and they did the mailer. The GOP PAC, a once “dormant organization”, is an organization that tries to fool people into thinking they are an actual wing of the local Republican Party. The Chronicle is already starting to talk about it on
Bernstein’s blog and I think their will be an article about it in the paper tomorrow. I heard that Michael Berry talked about how shady it all looked on his show tonight (I didn’t listen to it). This is the woman that wants to bring “integrity” back to the DA’s office. How are back room deals indicative of integrity? Let’s just elect the person who has risen above all of this, Kelly Siegler.
#23 I will be voting for the best person my friend. The HCDAs office needs a good house cleaning and I owe someone a favor. You always pay back those that cover your back, because the scale must be balanced!
My neighboor did me a favor but I am not going to elect him to be District Attorney. I live in Northwest Harris County.
#27 Your neighbor is not running for the DAs office but Pat is! Cast your vote according to Dans instructions, I’ll cast mine to balance the scale!