Robert Pratt
Political campaigns can be frustrating but sometimes all you can do is laugh. It seems that the line around many from the Jodey Arrington for Congress backers in Texas 19th Congressional District is that negatives about Arrington brought out in the campaign must all be lies. This is silly as all that appeared in commercials was documented and such documentation provided to the press.
Last week a local Jodey Arrington supporter was telling a businessman I know that all that stuff about Jodey requesting $90,000 for new office furniture when he took his customized golden-parachute job at Texas Tech was just not true. He held that rival Glen Robertson was lying about poor ol’ Jodey.
And he didn’t have 180 employees either – that’s how many desks at $500 a pop that $90,000 will buy – just so you know.
The problem for those who choose to ignore reality is that it is true and I have copies of the documents from Texas Tech which prove it including a detailed list of items.
How about this quote from his own assistant in an email dated 14 March 2013: “At the time of that discussion, we did not have numbers for all of the furniture items. I have also attached the final furniture request ($90K) and the Cost Comparison documents.”
Arrington’s new, extremely highly-paid position (for which he had almost no resume of experience) did have offices to outfit – the offices a major Wall Street brokerage firm had just vacated! In other words posh offices, not some old basement on campus that needed to be made habitable.
Arrington requested and got $90,000 for furniture to outfit his new palatial offices at Tech. That is fact not fiction. And he didn’t have 180 employees either – that’s how many desks at $500 a pop that $90,000 will buy – just so you know.
This guy is running in the wrong party primary. Jodey is more like a Democrat than he is a Republican. He’s certainly not a conservative.