I’ve comment today on the Lubbock County judge race and the challenge to Craig Estes for Senate District 30.
I’ve updated my endorsements and recommendations this week to include Senate District 30. I am endorsing solid conservative state Rep. Pat Fallon for Texas Senate joining the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, who leads the Senate and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.
I have tried to honor Senator Estes’ record of service but his latest advertisement which uses a Holy Sacrament of the Christian church as a prop to attack his opponent Pat Fallon is a disgusting low and reeks of religious bigotry. It’s not making a point about Fallon’s religious beliefs that is of legitimate concern to voters but using an element of religion, a Holy Sacrament no less, to attack him as a political enemy.
I join Rep. Drew Springer and others calling on Estes to apologize. Estes’ excuse that a “devout Catholic” produced the ad is beyond the pale and actually signals religious bigotry partly because confession is a Sacrament of almost all of the branches of Christianity, not just Roman Catholic but he clearly doesn’t know that with his focus only upon “Catholics.”
Gary Boren
In the race for Lubbock County judge it has become clear that Lubbock councilwoman Karen Gibson wants the job more than she cares for truth.
Gibson claims, on postal cards, that while a councilman Gary Boren “wrecked the City’s health care program” but the fact is that Boren fully recused himself from the vote in question due to a vendor under consideration being a customer of his company. However, it was Gibson’s own campaign treasurer Marc McDougal who, as mayor, did vote for the contract Gibson claims “wrecked” something, or so I remember it.
Boren also did not take campaign donations from the person in question, Ted Parker, but others did. And when Boren did later vote on a city insurance administrator, his vote was cast for BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, not the firm Gibson claimed “wrecked” something.
Boren left the council in his second term to return attention to his family business, a staffing firm, on the eve of the Great Recession. Apparently Ms. Gibson doesn’t respect this as she has calls Boren a quitter for working to save the jobs of dozens if not hundreds of Lubbockites.
[Note the words of KCBD’s Dan Jackson spoken at the time Mr. Boren left the Lubbock City Council and note that he was known for being the taxpayers’ warrior. Consider This… Gary Boren’s Resignation ]
Untrue Claims in the Lubbock County Judge Race; SD30 race endorsement
I’ve updated my endorsements and recommendations this week to include Senate District 30. I am endorsing solid conservative state Rep. Pat Fallon for Texas Senate joining the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, who leads the Senate and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.
I have tried to honor Senator Estes’ record of service but his latest advertisement which uses a Holy Sacrament of the Christian church as a prop to attack his opponent Pat Fallon is a disgusting low and reeks of religious bigotry. It’s not making a point about Fallon’s religious beliefs that is of legitimate concern to voters but using an element of religion, a Holy Sacrament no less, to attack him as a political enemy.
I join Rep. Drew Springer and others calling on Estes to apologize. Estes’ excuse that a “devout Catholic” produced the ad is beyond the pale and actually signals religious bigotry partly because confession is a Sacrament of almost all of the branches of Christianity, not just Roman Catholic but he clearly doesn’t know that with his focus only upon “Catholics.”
Gary Boren
In the race for Lubbock County judge it has become clear that Lubbock councilwoman Karen Gibson wants the job more than she cares for truth.
Gibson claims, on postal cards, that while a councilman Gary Boren “wrecked the City’s health care program” but the fact is that Boren fully recused himself from the vote in question due to a vendor under consideration being a customer of his company. However, it was Gibson’s own campaign treasurer Marc McDougal who, as mayor, did vote for the contract Gibson claims “wrecked” something, or so I remember it.
Boren also did not take campaign donations from the person in question, Ted Parker, but others did. And when Boren did later vote on a city insurance administrator, his vote was cast for BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, not the firm Gibson claimed “wrecked” something.
Boren left the council in his second term to return attention to his family business, a staffing firm, on the eve of the Great Recession. Apparently Ms. Gibson doesn’t respect this as she has calls Boren a quitter for working to save the jobs of dozens if not hundreds of Lubbockites.
[Note the words of KCBD’s Dan Jackson spoken at the time Mr. Boren left the Lubbock City Council and note that he was known for being the taxpayers’ warrior. Consider This… Gary Boren’s Resignation ]