Michael Berry did an excellent piece on this criminal politician this morning on his show... Essentially, his dad "bought him that seat"... Lots and lots of family money... They also provide the venue for the Republican party in East Texas to meet, Republican ladies active in the party to have their socials, dinners and other campaign events... If he goes away, the Republican party will lose its home (venue)... He's been throwing money toward various groups for years and many in the area/district are beholden to him... His drunken display will hurt him with the Bible Belt folks more than giving DemoKrauts committee chair positions... Michael Berry is from his district (home), but does not live there now... He pretty well destroyed him on air this morning... Hope the people around the little piece of Beaumont and the rest of his district were listening this morning! He played a recording of a co-congressman from the district that grew up with him and he gave a very emotional statement on the floor of the house prior to the vote... He voted to censure him even though he's been a life-long close friend. That statement is worth the listen if you go listen to Michael Berry's podcast from his morning show this morning (Feb. 12, 24).
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Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View Post
I missed that yesterday morning but will give it a listen. However, being endorsed by Rick Perry is enough for me not to vote for him.Comment
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Short version of a video I posted earlier in this thread, very informative. The longer video is absolutely worth watching
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Everyday my mailbox gets stuffed more and more with Covey and Phelan stuff and it seems like every other commercial on TV is one for or against them.Comment
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In have gotten two about 8”x11” glossy photo advertisements in the mail from Phelan in the last couple of days and today a young guy was going door to door hanging Covey advertisements on each door. Then I got a call today that my caller ID listed as “Political Call”… which I didn’t answer.Originally posted by marshman View Post
I have never seen anything like it locally.
I wonder how much money is being poured into what is a local election.Comment
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I see that Phelan had a big rally today with Rick Perry he’s campaigning hard, But you’re right, on a local level I’ve not seen anything like it before either.Originally posted by tvc184 View PostComment
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Well I would hope that if he had Rick Perry there, that should be good news for his opponent! He's one of the few politicians that I despise bad enough to almost vote for a DemoKraut... not quite, but almost!!Comment
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There’s a radio ad going around with Rick Perry promoting some TX Supreme Court or appeals court candidates (?) and I swear it sounds like he’s completely hammered when he recorded the audio.
Can’t even understand who the names are he’s slurring the words so badly. He either came straight from the dentist’s office Novocain chair or a barstool on 6th Street.
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Even if Phelan retains his seat in the house there is a good possibility he would not survive a vote too remain as speaker. Some dems will vote for him and probably no republicans. After that the house majority could censure him again or impeach him.Comment
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Forgot to mention that my phone has been blowing up with political calls and texts from them both. Guess as we closer to Election Day they will get even more frequent.Comment
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I have three texts on the race in the last couple of hours.Originally posted by marshman View PostComment
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Make that 4 since 2:41pm …. 🤣Comment
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Tell each candidate you won't vote for him if he contacts you again. That'll stop them from reaching outOriginally posted by tvc184 View PostComment
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Since I haven’t noticed a post since the primary…..
There will be a runoff. Covey got 46% and Phelan got 44%. A third candidate got 9%.
This was way better than I expected but it will be a tough fight. I suspect that many Democrats did not vote in their primary, since there mostly was no point locally. I suspect that Phelan will be going hard to get them to cross the aisle just for the primary, which they can do if they did not vote in the Democrat primary.
Covey got about 15.5k votes and Phelan got 14.5k. The other candidate got 3.5k.
I am hoping that all of the 3.5k votes was an anti-Phelan vote and not necessarily a strong supporter of the other candidate. If most of them show up and vote in the runoff in a few weeks, there’s a good chance that feeling will be defeated.
The old truth that it really depends on turnout will never be more evident than in this runoff.
Now I have a few more weeks of several more flyers almost daily and texts and phone calls….. 🤣🤣🤣
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