Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Kicking Off The #TX2022 Season



This you?


In keeping with one of my resolutions, this post is an effort to be kinder to others, specifically here to some of the better Democrats running on the March ballot.  I won't be voting for them because I'm attending the Texas Green Party's conventions, but there's some of you who will, and if you're like me you have no interest in VBNMW.  So at this inception, you have several options -- perhaps more than your time allows -- to consider and research.  This is my effort to help you separate the wheat from the chaff.  I won't be doing as much of that as I have in the past.  As with COVID vaccines and masks, everybody has their own safe choices to make, and Texas Democrats should choose wisely.  Picking the same old Blue Dogs as in the past will result in the same mangey fall election results.  Be smarter; make them earn your vote with clear policy enunciations.

For example:

Beto lost my vote long ago in his Senate race against Ted Cruz when he took oil and gas money and abandoned Medicare for All, then became irredeemable in his lackluster White House bid two years ago, sealing the bad deal we're currently suffering under by jumping on the Biden bandwagon with the others at Obama's urging.  Delilah Barrios is the only person I can comfortably cast a ballot for in the governor's contest.  Best of luck to all you calf-crampers out there, but it's not happening again for him unless Governor Fish Lips gets upset in the Pachy primary.  And I don't see that either.

Same with the Lite Gov race and Mike Collier and Carla Braley.  As badly as Omicron Patrick needs to go, I have no votes left for perennial ex-GOP losers or Donkey party operatives.  Michelle Beckley seems okay, but tread carefully.  W/r/t Land Commissioner, Jay Kleberg is rich and and also a former Republican.  Jinny Suh is the best alternative.  And for Comptroller, Janet Dudding, Tim Mahoney, and Angel Vega all pass muster but I'd recommend Vega first.

My favorite statewide Dems are Joe Jaworski and Susan Hays.


Leftist-ish Dems running for Congress have been selected by American Youth for Climate Action, and for the most part I agree with their choices.


There are 5 more posts in that thread, and they include Claudia Zapata and D.L. Anderson in TX-21 (Chip Roy, seditionist), Jessica Cisneros in TX-28 (Henry Cuellar, oily Blue Dog), Jessica Mason in TX-30 (open, Eddie Bernice Johnson retiring), Beatriz Reynosa in TX-34 (Vicente Gonzalez, Blue Dog), Greg Casar and Eddie Rodriguez in TX-35 (open), Donna Imam in TX-37 (Lloyd Doggett, carpetbagger), and Diana Alexander, TX-38 (open).


For Texas Senate:


For the state's school board:


All these folks are big improvements on the Democrats and Republicans they're challenging.  Give them a close look and see if you agree.

A regular Wrangle coming later today tomorrow.
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