Failed Record, Strange Behavior
The runoff in the Republican primary for Texas House District 112 to succeed retiring Fred Hill is turning nasty. Paul Burka gives a good summary of the candidates and the party split that they represent.
Randy Dunning is supported by the far right. He highlights cutting taxes as his reason for running. He also is anti-immigrant, anti-abortion, and anti-gay. What's he for? Guns. So much so that he got fired from his job after carrying a handgun on company property. He explains that this happened during the "reign" of Bill Clinton, so I guess he felt justified. WTF?
Angie Chen Button is supported by the business conservatives. Her biggest contributors are Tom Engibous, former chairman of Texas Instruments and Keh Shew Lu, former senior VP of TI. She's raised $114,000 so far and has loaned herself another $160,000. She is on the DART board, which recently was embarrassed by failing to catch a billion dollar budget shortfall. She's running on an anti-immigrant, anti-abortion, anti-gay platform. Oh... and smearing Randy Dunning. In cable television attack ads and in an email, she attempts to bury him, in Dunning's words, under "an avalanche of fabrications, distortions, and hearsay." Burka has the text.
Dunning's response is also worth a read. Dunning dismisses some of the smears as being sourced from the Dallas Observer, "an ultra-liberal 'alternative' newspaper." Uh oh... he had better hope those guys at Unfair Park don't take offense.
Too bad there's not a way both of these candidates can lose. I guess someone has to emerge from the runoff with the Republican nomination, but if ever there's an election where Republicans ought to at least give a look to the Democrat (Sandra Vule), this November will be it. Strange behavior indeed, on the part of both Republicans.
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