High SA turnout could boost Wentworth
An unanticipated surge of early voting in Bexar County could benefit hometown state Senate candidate Jeff Wentworth in the high-profile race for state Senate district 25. On Monday, the first day of early voting, 4,705 voters cast ballots in the Republican primary, a rate of 540 votes per hour. On Tuesday, the rate increased to 718 votes per hour. Of course, it is not known who received those votes, but it is a fair assumption that Wentworth stands to benefit more than his opponent, Dr. Donna Campbell, who lives in New Braunfels. The formula for a Wentworth victory would require a high early vote total, similar to the May 29 primary vote, and a low turnout in the other counties in the district (parts of Comal, Hays, Travis, Guadalupe, Kendall). It is generally thought that Wentworth’s campaign had been struggling going into the early voting.
Anonymous says:
Paul, I heard they had over 15,000 vote early on Monday in Galveston County.
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Spiro Eagleton says:
Wentworth is in huge trouble and he can only pray that somehow he’ll survive the run-off. These totals don’t mean much unless we know who these voters are. Believe it or not, but there are Republicans in Bexar Co that are not fans of Wentworth.
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paulburka Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Yes, but Wentworth rates to get the lion’s share.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Wentworth beat Campbell by 15 points in Bexar County in May. Over 75% of the Bexar County votes went to San Antonio candidates.
Don’t expect San Antonio to roll over and give ts seat in the Texas Senate to a New Braunfels carpetbagger.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
If you ever had to listen to Donna Campbell speak, with the micophone or screaming “I’m a Doctor!” without it, you would know that it will be a long 6 years if she wins. I don’t agree with her “Hillary Clinton” relocation to a place that she does not live, just to run for office. Shei lives in Columbus, Texas and works even farther away from the district. She is clueless and Wentworth has lots of seniority to represent our interests. She has none. It will be interesting.
Robert Morrow says:
Now, how do you know who they are voting for? Mindreader? Well, I guess we can look at the May results and extrapolate a bit.
Wentworth is indeed in huge trouble and do think he goes down. I would not bet my life on it, but Wentworth performed so poorly in the primary and the run off should be a more conservative bunch … And Donna Campbell is an appealing, nice lady.
I think Wentworth and Dewhurst are hitched to the same wagon: the one with 3 wheels in a ditch.
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WUSRPH Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
The term of a Texas STATE SENATOR is 4 years…United States Senators are the ones with 6 year terms….God the thought of having to listen to Cruz for six years is mind destroying..
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Half of this year’s group of state senators will serve only 2-year terms unless re-elected.
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Anonymous says:
How is Steve Stockman looking?
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Stockman? I just don’t know. Stockman could very well win this. It is conservative grassroots vs. money.
I think the Steve Stockman race is the most important one in Texas (if you are a conservative).
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
on July 24th, 2012 at 1:37 pm Robert Morrow posted:
Did you go see the Batman premiere?
I hear the special effects are INSANE!
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Perhaps the high turn out in Bexar County is being driven by Ted Cruz supporters who would–by extension–be supportive of Donna Campbell.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
That is what I was thinking …
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
on July 24th, 2012 at 1:37 pm Robert Morrow posted;
Did you go see the Batman premiere?
I hear the special effects are INSANE!
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hooah! Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 8:32 am
Once you see where those votes are coming from, you won’t be think that any longer. Wentworth’s coming back, period.
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Anonymous says:
San Antonio is going to elect a Houston doctor whose house is in Columbus, Texas?
This is twice that Campbell has run for election in Central Texas and still the best she can do is rent an apartment in New Braunfels two months before the filing deadline. If SD-25 votes for Campbell, they deserve what they get — an extremist political neophyte who doesn’t know the District – its people or its issues – and has no stroke in the Texas Senate.
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Spiro Eagleton Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Its nice to see Sen. Wentworth is now posting on this blog. Ha.
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Seenthelight Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Well, double check with Wentworth on the apartment claim. I think he sent a former army ranger to a house in a gated community to deliver his letter of apology to the good doctor. He even jumped the gate! Did he send it to the wrong house?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Why did he apologize, anyway. She just used it against him, in a very crass and unprofessional way, in her mailouts. This is ugly and not worth it for us or them.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Seenthelight, if your story has any factual basis at all, it had to be a delivery to the $650K house Campbell owns in Columbus – not in SD-25.
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Seenthelight Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
ok. Facts are facts and you win this one regarding property value. If I have to vote for the candidate with the most expensive house, I guess it’s Wentworth at $740k. But if it’s who shares my values, it’ll be the good doctor. Who cares how much their homes are worth?!
Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
I don’t care about home value, but I don’t want to be represented by someone who doesn’t know the voters, the area, or the issues. Of course, if you want your wife to have to bear her rapist’s child, go for it.
Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Yeah he probably did, that’s why the letter was published by Donna’s campaign…
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Fiftycal Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
DAMN! She’s going to change the U.S. Constitution all by herself? WOW! What a powerful woman.
Anonymous says:
The lower Democratic primary turnout in Bexar may be good news for Pete Gallego in his race against Ciro Rodriguez for the 23rd CD nomination. Rodriguez won in May due to turnout in the eastern part of the district, and if the numbers are down that could help Gallego, if he can maintain his turnout totals from May in the area his state district covers, from Eagle Pass west to El Paso.
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Anonymous says:
Get real. He only pulled 38.75% of the vote in Bexar in the first round. That is only 3 points better than the overall average districtwide. Does that sound like a stronghold?
Sure there are some people who will vote “Bexar First,” in the runoff but that is a dead end for him. People outside could also vote not-bexar first, and they are more than half the vote and will CERTAINLY be more than half by the end.
When an incumbent polls so far away from 50% even in his home county tells you all you need to know that he is finished. He will lose Bexar. He is behind in those Bexar boxes RIGHT NOW. Watch. He will lose the not-Bexar. And he will lose the race. Any other talk is naive silliness.
When you have to beat up two women to win, voters will always come to the conclusion that “maybe it is not them, Jeff, maybe it is you.”
Forget betting on this race. If this was Vegas, they would have to call off betting. Lets bet who wins Bexar for more of a challenge. I will take Campbell. Any takers?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Running against Daddy Warbucks Bob Perry, et al. is definitely a hurdle, as is the loony right these days. But it’s San Antonio’s seat to lose or give away, and when you include the Kendall County suburbs (which Wentworth also won), there’s more than enough for Wentworth to pull it out.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
“When an incumbent polls so far away from 50% even in his home county tells you all you need to know that he is finished. He will lose Bexar. He is behind in those Bexar boxes RIGHT NOW. Watch. He will lose the not-Bexar. And he will lose the race. Any other talk is naive silliness.”
Those are the words of a political professional. And they are absolutely right. Wentworth is behind in those Bexar county boxes right now and it is only going to get worse on Tuesday.
Totally correct. This race must be pulled from the betting board.
Burka wants Wentworth to win so badly that he posts these vapors, fantasies and dreams of whoever is feeding him this.
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hooah! Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 8:35 am
Tell you what, RM. If Wentworth wins by more than five points, you promise to stand on a downtown SA street corner and read the Warren Commission report our loud, OK?
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
If Wentworth wins by more than five points, I will lick Hillary Clinton over her entire body from top to bottom on national TV at the halftime of the 2013 Super Bowl.
Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
“Beat up women to win?” Lollerwaffles! Wentworth is definitely a physically violent behemoth!!! Watch out for his bat! If you’re not voting for him you’re getting a Rodney King beating… Too Soon??
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Anonymous says:
Where’s the reliable info that says Wentworth is behind right now? How do they compile data on who’s winning in a race where the ballots haven’t been counted?
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Distinguished Gentleman Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Are there election employees in the Bexar County elections office who are leaking this type of preliminary information?
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Anonymous says:
Morrow’s “Anonymous” “political professional” has been revealed to be the blowhard most are in that profession. There’s no way to know who voted for whom at this point.
And his “conventional wisdom” hardly applies in this race given (1) TLR’s involvement, (2) the absence of the other San Antonio candidate in the runoff, and (3) Dr. Campbell’s carpetbagger status.
That said, no one is underestimating the Republican Party takeover by the fringe right and their devotion to ideology over being represented by someone who actually lives and works in their District.
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Anonymous says:
Anonymous criticizes Anonymous.
As long as you are anonymous, why not make a straight out prediction. Not this “Carpetbagger” but “Republican Party Takeover by fringe” couching.
Only 47% of the Primary vote was in Bexar. Bexar, Comal and Hays are basically tracking each Primary other’s turnout in this round. The SAEN article is good, but it leaves out the other 53% of the story.
Wentworth won about 3 precincts in Bexar last time.
Over, over over. That is my blowhard prediction. But when it turns out to be right, you can say it was “Republican Party takeover by the fringe right” and that you knew it all along in your heart but wished it were not true.
As for me, I find more satisfaction in being right before it happens than having some quasi-intelligent explanation for how it all happened after.
If you have expertise, then you should be able to predict correctly. If you cannot, nobody should listen to your explanations after. The skill of explaining what just happened is pretty useless unless you can apply it to the next event. I am applying what I learned in the last round, to what is about to happen now.
And right now, Wentworth can hope to salvage something by winning his home county and home precinct. That is currently his highest hope.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
38.75% for Wentworth in his home county Bexar is the blinking red warning lights/ tornado siren going off.
This race is over and Donna Campbell has won it.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Good thing we don’t have many tornadoes in SD25! Are you sure you’re observing the same race? She’s a nice woman, very accomplished in the medical field, loud and in every piece of mail I’ve gotten, wears yellow dresses.
The simple face is that she isn’t prepared to run for any political seat. She spouts mainly platform rhetoric, and speaks largely about >>>FEDERAL<<< Issues! Who doesn't want lower taxes? What conservative doesn't want less government? Those are all nice things to say, but in the end I would prefer someone who is experienced and pragmatic! Sure, eliminate property tax and sales tax and then see what the Fair Tax does to the Texas economy. Where will you go to buy a car? Washer and dryer? Farm Equipment? The taxes on such a purchase would be deterring to say the least. Texas is bordered by how many states? All of which employ common sense in their tax policies. You can say I'm wrong and you'd just make your purchases here anyway because you want to support Texas business and Industry, but I'm sure you've never shopped at Wal-Mart either. SMH@Tea Party fanatics. Jeff IS Conservative AND Sensible. All I know is that I don't vote on a single issue, and I don't vote with emotion.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Food for thought….Democrats have not won a statewide election in Texas since 1994. Is there one democrat who can answer why?
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Spiro Eagleton Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 7:44 am
Texas is not a socialist state and the national Democratic party has become increasingly that of the socialists. That is the answer, whether or not any Democrats today wish to admit it as such.
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Anonymous says:
I stated facts. You made predictions and stated them as facts. Pretending there’s not a difference is what I criticized. Saying Campbell is ahead in Bexar County boxes right now makes you a blowhard.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
At the worst Campbell is doing even in Bexar. Let’s see the early voting totals for Bexar at 7PM on Tuesday. Wentworth is a very weakened candidate and Campbell has a very appealing personality.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Is Campbell planning her post-election victory party in the same Houston hospital emergency room as last time?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
That’s why you probably shouldn’t vote. Personality doesn’t pass policy. Experience and knowledge do. IDK I hate to throw this out there, but in reading, I’d say that a large majority of Donna supporters are voting for a loud voice, a pretty face. I just don’t see how it would be logical, other than Wentworth’s time in office, to vote against him. Even that is a reach. Texas is in session at most 6 months a year (regularly, not special), and with term limits, we’re just ensuring that we have inexperienced freshman representation in the Senate that, blinders or not, cannot possibly hope to achieve what someone with Wentworth’s experience and network can. I’ve heard Donna’s live Q&A sessions and they’re honestly scary. Her answer to most issues is “I’ll have to get back to you on that, but I’m a Doctor so trust me!” She then winks and smiles and raises her volume for the next question. I felt a little bit insulted at how she patronizes doe eye, front row listeners.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Every OTHER year, I meant
Anonymous says:
Actually there were no facts in your post.
I am a “blowhard” = your opinion.
“There is no way to know for whom people voted” = Non-fact (Ask them (exit polls, polls, etc))
“Conventional wisdom does not apply” = your opinion (and a bit cliche at that).
Biased summary of the race being about right wing ideology over who lives and works in district = your opinion.
I gave my opinion in the form of a testable prediction and backed it up with statistics. They don’t prove me right, they just bolster my case and explain my reasoning. The only thing that will prove me right is the election.
And after the election, all of your mentioned items above will still be opinions. Until you make a prediction of outcome, you will not have a hypothesis that can be tested and proven.
Anything else is just laziness and mush.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Ooooo…you got me. Yep, I stated my opinion that stating your predictions as facts makes you a blowhard. It doesn’t take a genius to make the Campbell prediction. Nobody thinks the odds aren’t in your favor. But there are reasons to think it might be otherwise in this case, and I don’t need to predict it and be right to feel ok about myself.
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Anonymous says:
Can one of you hire me, it sounds like you are current members or are running for Congress.
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Anonymous says:
The headline of this is: “High SA turnout could boost Wentworth”
Is Wentworth boosted?
Paul then wrote it was “boosted” depended on low turnout elsewhere. I later wrote that the 2nd and third biggest counties are voting at the same rate.
That, Wentworth’s first round performance, that he has no stronghold base, the fact that Bexar was less than half in the first round and his basic problem of having to attack one woman strongly and then turn around and attack another, leads me to believe it does not boost him and in fact, I predict his defeat.
The fact that you say “to feel ok about myself” says more about you than all your other liberal comments.
Politics is not about feeling good about ourselves. What a horribly low standard. It is about what is right and what is wrong. And on this particular issue, that has nothing to do with political philosophy.
This particular post is about whether someone is going to win or not based on a possible boost he is getting. That is what makes this worth reading.
Is that true or false? I say false. Gave my reasoning.
Whether he SHOULD win or lose, or even if conservatives are bad or good, are whole different issues.
Blowhards are not defined by who predicts but rather by who predicts incorrectly. Right?
And if you don’t want to predict in a posting about whether or not Wentworth has a boost, then why should anyone listen to your other opinions? A prediction is an opinion which knows it will someday be introduced to reality. That is a beautiful thing.
Obama had the guts to predict exact levels of unemployement under his stimulus plan. His predictions were SO far off, that it was laughable. That is exactly why so few believe his next economic idea. His prediction was proven to be just blowhard-ity.
They used to say opposing thumbs set us apart from other animals, but new research indicates that is is our capacity to sense and then predict at a high level that sets us apart. In fact it could be at the root of our very consciousness. We first analyzed smells and decided whether something was safe to eat. Now we analyze politics with those same (but more numerous)von Economo neurons in our brain.
If I am to be stuck on a desert island, let it be with someone who is an excellent predictor of what is next rather than someone who gives worthless and untestable opinions about how we got there.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Predicting what everyone else predicts doesn’t make you a better predictor.
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Anonymous says:
Only one thing makes you a better predictor: Being right. And if you are right only because you know who to listen to, you are still right, nonetheless.
I would LOVE to simply and correctly know exactly which stock predictor to believe. If that was my personal super-power, I would be the richest person in the world within a few months.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Got it. If Wentworth carries Bexar, no one should think you’re a better predictor.
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Tom says:
JBB asked why a democrat hasn’t won a statewide election since 1994. Texas is part of the South, and the South has gone solidly republican starting with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and continuing through Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” which every Republican has benefited from.
I think the story of Round Rock illustrates the point. It is fairly well integrated today, but still mostly Republican, and it received its biggest population boost with the white flight from Austin during the days of forced busing.
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JBB says:
Anonymous v Anonymous above has made everyone on this blog dumber for having read it
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 5:48 am
JBB wouldn’t have said that what I would have said is how does anyone posting anon make a point against another anon? Paul you need a program too many bored state workers releasing election info.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
If Campbell ends up winning the run-off, I hope that she will make TERM LIMITS a priority for the 83rd Legislature. We should never again have to suffer another fool like Wentworth for a quarter century. Twelve years–tops. That’s it. Move on, either to some other public office or return to private life.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 25th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Campbell’s very victory – underfunded grassroots candidate – over Wentworth would be an argument against term limit laws.
The voters ARE term limits as an entrenched incumbent Wentworth is about to find out.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 5:49 am
“The voters ARE term limits as an entrenched incumbent Wentworth is about to find out.”
as usual Robert you are correct….
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Kenneth D. Franks says:
I still believe term limits would be a good thing for offices such as governor.
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Spiro Eagleton Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 7:49 am
Speaking of the governor – you know things are bad for Dewhurst when the best Perry can do is have a bitch fit about The Club for Growth and Freedom Works spending money for Cruz because they are “messin’ with Texas.” Come on! Perry also took shots at Cruz as “not havin’ enough experience.” That’s a lot of nerve coming from a guy who has been in office since 1984 and yet ran one of the single worst presidential races of all time!
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Guadalupe Bass Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Term limits empower lobbyists. Yes, they could have even more power.
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Distinguished Gentleman Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 9:21 am
Part of their power is the incumbent’s emphasis upon perpetuation in office. If you set it up that nobody can remain longer than twelve years in one particular office, and the obsession with perpetuation in that specific office is reduced, then the lobby is not more empowered.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 11:08 am
my objection to term limits is the law of diminishing returns. You end up with the good legislators being replaced by incompetent as well as the incompetent being replaced by another incompetent. When the voters get enough they throw the bums out, hence Texas has not elected a dem to statewide office since well into the last century. That ain’t no accident.
Distinguished Gentleman Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Far too often, JohnBernardBooks, the incumbent skates by with NO opponent. Hence, the incumbent is rubber-stamped back into office by sheer default and the voters have no opportunity to express their displeasure with the incumbent during such an election cycle.
I think that twelve years is more than fair, reasonable, and just.
On the subject of incompetence, in many instances that I have seen and continue to see, it is the incumbents who are bumblers, not the new-comers.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
“On the subject of incompetence, in many instances that I have seen and continue to see, it is the incumbents who are bumblers, not the new-comers.”
we have term limits for Prez….look at what we have in office.
Distinguished Gentleman Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
JBB says: “we have term limits for Prez….look at what we have in office.”
My point, exactly, JBB.
Thank God for term limits. In the event that Barrack Hussein Obama gets re-elected this year, at least we won’t have to worry about him coming back to that position a third time in 2016.
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Fiftycal Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Nope. Term limits for every elected AND APPOINTED member of the government. Justices can be appointed for LIFE, as long as their combined “service” in elected AND appointed positions do not exceed 12 years.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Dewhurst has made numerous mis-steps in this campaign and bringing on the Perry gang was one of the all-time worst of Dewhurst’s miscalculations. I am one voter who probably would have supported Dewhurst in this run-off, until, that is, he went so over-the-top negative on Cruz. And while I voted for one of the other candidates for this position on May 29, Dewhurst has so turned me off with his gratuitous attacks, that I will vote for Cruz as a matter of principle.
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Anonymous says:
Campbell’s campaign is all about Tea Party, Republican values and “Less Government”. How is her stance on our women “being forced to bear a rapist’s baby” less government? We need government out of our lives, not HER values saying “rape is not rape, it’s Life?!! I will not vote for any extremist candidate, no matter how “popular”. She would have zero clout in the Senate, for years. Wentworth would be No.2 and San Antonio business owners know that. This is all about nothing.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
by your definition society giving out penalties and jail time for certain behavior is more government. Who are we to say you can’t murder someone else, or commit rape? That’s big government dictating a moral agenda by your definition.
The conservative, less government crowd is not against a government role in all things — we think government should punish rapists and murderers and put them away, and we think government should protect the most innocent in society, the unborn.
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Fiftycal Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
And “government agents”, ie YOU, should have NO SAY in regards to someone else’s medical decisions. How would you enforce your no-abortion utopia? Put a government agent in every exam room? Or use the Chinese model and require every woman to “prove” her pregnancy status every month to the equivalent of a drone in the drivers license bureau?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 27th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Until they’re born to welfare moms, then they can die.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
What is the source for the assertion that Donna Campbell would force a rape victim to bear the baby of rapist?
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Anonymous says:
She has said in many political forums that she would not be for any abortion, period. “Rape is not rape, it’s Life”. No wiggle room there.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
She actually said that? How did the audience react to that?
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Anonymous says:
Horribly, but she does not care. People seem to be grasping for a candidate that will say “most” of the right things, flaws and arrogance be damned. We could do so much better. It is back to arrogance but I also have a problem with people wanting to believe she lives in NB, when she lives, owns a home and pays taxes in Columbus. Why doesn’t she run where she actually lives? She first showed up telling voters groups that she talked to Wentworth and told him she was running, where he liked it or not. He has his problems too, but he was the only one that has ever been from our district- Ames Jones and Campbell both moved in to run. It may be legal but is against the “morals” that Campbell pushed daily.
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Anonymous says:
Express-News July 5, 2012 Campbell said “rape is not forced motherhood”. She was more interested in catching the guy with DNA and “Life”.
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Distinguished Gentleman Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
I hear you, Anonymous, however, shouldn’t that all be taken with some grain of salt given the fact that since 1973 ROE v. WADE has been the law of the land and really nothing that Dr. Campbell could do in the Texas Senate can diminish the dictates of ROE v. WADE?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
She could just vote for more and more intrusive procedures like the trans-vaginal sonogram and more. Individual rights are being taken away bit by bit by the very people who bitch about losing their freedom. It’s “Christians” like Donna Campbell – who see immorality all around them – but miss it when they look in the mirror.
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Anonymous says:
Who cares where she lives? Who cares what she’ll do in office? Just say that she is more conservative than her opponent, whatever that means, and she’s in. She’s conservative times infinity plus one times a googleplex. Any questions?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Is there a like button to this reply?. Googleplex, if you’re not careful she’ll rip that quote right from your mouth and use it herself if enough people like it. Similar to what she did to Wentworth on his NRA endorsement, and his SA Express news endorsement. In both situations she has literally stolen the quote from each. I have an “A” rating, I am the “clear choice” le sigh. Oh, my bad tea partiers, was that too French?
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Robert Morrow says:
I am for legalized abortion, but I also support Donna Campbell.
Chuck Young, an ultra-libertarian, who used to live in Wentworth’s district, probably still does, used to foam at the mouth all the time about the idiotic, repressive statist bills that Wentworth is so fond of pushing.
The pro-lifers have been wanting to get rid of Wentworth for a very long time. But the problem is, Wentworth is a statist Republican so there are no libertarians, small government types to defend his flank. “Guns on Campus” simply does not “make up” for all Wentworth has done.
Even lege session Wentworth would do something that would make libertarians heads want to explode. I think he is a big toll roader, too.
The problem with socially liberal Republicans is that they are almost always liberals and squishy moderates and statists on small government issues.
No such thing as a “pro choice” Republican who truly wants to slash government and deregulate. They have to be squishy, yucky moderates on everything.
That is why no one is running to Wentworth’s defense and why he is going to lose.
Remember, I am FOR abortion rights…
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
How about the castle doctrine? What about the voter ID bill, what about pulling from the rainy day fund (you know the one we have for emergencies or “rainy days”)to fund education leaving still, 5 billion in the fund. What about a balanced budget and a 14billion dollar cut without raising taxes? What about bringing funding for infrastructural development to a majority of the rural areas in the district? What about for the last 20 years living in the district and paying taxes here and living UNDER the laws and policy he passes? What about his voting on principle and not pocket book? As in the case of the merely 2, count them 2, times he didn’t vote with Texans for Lawsuit Reform (Donna’s current PAC funders whom she claimed she would not take a cent from because they were so ugly the first go around with Jones)
Oh and BTW Robet Morrow doesn’t even live in this district, he’s just mad at all politicians because they have different opinions than he. So keep on keepin’ on with your false information and speculative statistics and reasoning. I’ll stay in reality and just wave as you float away into the irrelevance from whence you came.
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Robert Morrow says:
I just wish someone would make a list of all the statist, big government, big regulation bills that Jeff Wentworth has sponsored or voted for. So many, I can’t think of them all.
If you live in San Antonio, the endorsement of Terri Hall of the anti-toll road group TURF is something you would want. Terri Hall can’t stand toll roader Wentworth. Terri Hall is a very powerful grassroots activist with absolutely zero money.
She has a lot of credibility and you can’t BUY that.
Her description: “Wentworth: Toller-In-Chief”
“There’s a wave of FRESH, GRASSROOTS candidates that are challenging the incumbent status quo politicians that have run Texas fiscally aground. Texans are now over $35 billion in debt for roads. According to federal stats, Texas is #1 in the nation in road debt! Most of it has been to subsidize toll roads with tax dollars while charging us AGAIN to use the road — a DOUBLE TAX! The debt is unsustainable and irresponsible. There are not enough Texans who can afford to pay this extra tax on driving just to get to work. We need to reverse course & FAST!
TEXAS SENATE DIST. 25:
BOOT PRO-TOLL JEFF WENTWORTH
DONNA CAMPBELL is the ONLY ANTI-TOLL candidate in the race!
Incumbent Jeff Wentworth wants to raise your road taxes. He voted for every piece of toll road legislation in Austin, including the Trans Texas Corridor. He also voted for controversial public private partnership toll roads which also hand our Texas sovereign public roads over to private, foreign corporations that will charge Texans $.75 cents PER MILE in tolls — with guaranteed profits and monopolistic non-compete clauses (SB 792 & SB 1492).”
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Glad to see Donna Campbell is now blogging too!
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Anonymous Reply:
July 26th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
In the long run higher gasoline tax is cheaper than toll roads, plus toll roads would be run privately, thus the state receives very little of that income. And no, Jeff has voted AGAINST toll roads R andom M isinformer.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 28th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Jeff Wentworth is a very big toll roader. All you have to do is ask Terri Hall, the #1 anti-toll road activist in Texas and who is a big supporter of Donna Campbell.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 28th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Jeff Wentworth is a big toll roader and I encourage everyone to vote against him. Terri Hall gives him an “F” on toll roads.
http://www.reformandfreedom.org/2012-06-01-03-09-30/latest-news/1-who-are-the-tollers-in-the-texas-primary
Jeff Wentworth has voted for every toll road bill that ever came across his desk in the Senate, ditto at the MPO.
Wentworth and Ames Jones had the unmitigated gall to lie to a San Antonio Republican Club and say they were against the toll toads, when the two of them are the REASON we’re still facing toll roads all over San Antonio (57 toll projects are in the current MPO plan!).
Wentworth’s law firm represented Zachry when Spain-based Cintra and partner, locally owned Zachry, slapped that unsolicited bid on TxDOT’s desk to takeover and toll 281& 1604 in 2005, and Wentworth blocked that contract from being subjected to the moratorium on those foreign-owned toll roads back in 2007. It wasn’t until we went on radio to expose the connection that Wentworth backtracked and we got 281 & 1604 yanked from Cintra. He’s totally ingratiated himself with the highway lobby and pro-tollers his entire career (his campaign finance reports show the money trail). There is NO WAY he should be allowed to make such a claim and get away with it!
Wentworth also received an ‘F’ for the disastrous 82nd legislative session last year, voting for all of the worst, most anti-taxpayer, anti-property rights, pro-toll legislation since 2003.
By contrast, Campbell will fight to STOP ill-conceived toll projects, for ELECTED leadership at TxDOT, and to END road tax diversions! Candidates like Donna Campbell will need our help to defeat the well-funded, well-connected Jeff Wentworth and Elizabeth Ames-Jones who are awash in special interest money. You can contact Campbell’s campaign to donate and/or volunteer today!
Spiro Eagleton says:
The Dewhurst folks are getting geeked up over higher turnout numbers thus far in the run-off compared to the May primary, but here’s what they are missing – buried in a Statesman story, “The five-day early voting period for the runoff, which ends Friday, is shorter than the 12 days of early voting that led up to the May 29 primary.”
That’s it. You have 5 days to vote instead of 12. That makes sense to me that the turnout for the first few days of early voting would be up over May. Also, folks should know who they are going for in the run-off, so there is no reason to wait.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Excellent point, Spiro Eagleton.
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Canadian Border Patrol says:
But buried even deeper (i.e. not in the Statesman), the Dewhurst operation is finding that they are getting the turnout numbers they need in the counties where Dewhurst ran strong and that there is evidence of an uptick for Dewhurst in North Texas, especially Dallas County now that Leppert has come on board.
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Indi says:
I called this one back in January or February. At that time, I mentioned that Wentworth would win the race give how Shields had tried to take him down with a very well financed campaign (Son in law of McCombs) and failed. Ames Jones (with her smirky smarmy ads) failed. There is no way some two-bit bible thumpin tea partier carpetbagger takes him down in this district. Does he deserve to keep the seat, not really… But he wins again. The power of incumbency trumps his lousy behavior. Also, Cruz is just hype and also is defeated by the Dew. Additionally, in case no one noticed, Hispanic names don’t fare too well among the GOP base. No way Cruz wins this race. Not to mention he comes across as a real jerk, which he most likely is. Senator Wentwoth and Senator Dewhurst have many years of service ahead of them. Also, remember that I called the Perry fiasco during the time Paul was saying he would be the nominee. Reality check is needed sometimes. The tea party is a media creation.
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Spiro Eagleton Reply:
July 27th, 2012 at 7:54 am
Indi? You don’t even post on here enough for anyone to know who you are, let alone remember some prediction you tout from Jan or Feb. Do you work for Dewhurst and/or Wentworth? It sure seems like it. Ha.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 27th, 2012 at 11:35 am
Oh, so now you have to post frequently to have an opinion? Yup, get rid of Indi, he’s a noob to this blog so he’s out. Just keep listening to the mouth breathers that regularly post here, cheering in the Tea Party section. I wonder, over there in that section, are there unicorns? Do you have a cotton candy machine to go along with your pixie dust and fairy wings? I digress, may he(she)who is the loudest and does exactly what TLR and other neo-conservative movements demand win. That is most definitely who I want representing me!
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Distinguished Gentleman Reply:
July 27th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Indi says: “Does he [meaning Wentworth] deserve to keep the seat, not really… But he wins again. The power of incumbency trumps his lousy behavior.”
What Indi has said is an excellent example of why we need term limits. And twelve years is quite reasonable, rational, fair, and just.
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Anonymous says:
Tea Partiers AAAAASSEMMMMBLLLLLLE!!! Don your Tin-Foil hats and get in your basements! They’re coming for your guns and imminient domain is on their agenda!!
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Anonymous says:
Donna Campbell’s commercials are now being paid for by Texans For Lawsuit Reform. She said that she would not take their money, but she has sold out. They are an ultr-rich, powerful pac who brought about change in tort laws in Texas. Various studies have shown that these laws did nothing to lower premiums and bring doctors to remote parts of Texas. Working people were hurt the worst and all Texans lost their rights in court. Even the most conservative in Texas are joining the “Stop TLR” movement. Elizabeth Ames Jones spent over a million dollars of their money and did not make the runoff. Beware TLR!
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JR Duck says:
I totally agree, Texans for Lawsuit Reform is the really wrong road to travel. Jeff Wentworth has done a very good job for a long time and deserves reelection.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Jeff Wentworth has been a disastrous Senator and deserves a solid beating in this run-off. One glaring example is Wentworth’s 2005 vote IN FAVOR of a proposed wage tax floor amendment that Brimer sponsored. Had it actually become law, Texans would be taxed on their wages! It was never approved by the Texas House of Representatives.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 28th, 2012 at 9:11 am
How many other Republican Senator’s voted for it? I think it’s funny to blame a sole individual for something a group of individuals must accomplish. You’re not providing the readers with the entire story either.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Whoever voted FOR it, regardless of the total number, should be punished for having done so. Wentworth voted FOR it, therefore, he should pay a price, at the ballot box, for having done so. If others did the same as Wentworth did, then they, too, deserve replacements at the ballot box. Is that clear enough for you Anonymous at 9:11 a.m. on 7-28-2012?
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Robert Morrow says:
Wentworth voted for it. Do you see any “small government” conservatives covering the back of Wentworth in this run off. None that I can think of. You can’t be a squishy moderate on EVERYTHING and hope to survive a Texas GOP run off.
Terri Hall of TURF is playing a big role in sinking the campaign of toll road meister Jeff Wentworth. She is a Ron Paul supporter and small government conservative.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Wentworth(less) had the audacity to offer a Senate Joint Resolution in 2011 calling for an amendment to the FEDERAL Constitution to impose term limits on members of the U.S. Congress but, as to himself, he refuses to support term limits for members of the Texas Legislature. What a hypocrite! Just another reason to throw him out of office tomorrow.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Go, Donna, go.
Win, Donna, win.
Beat Wentworth(less) utterly senseless.
Then, when the Legislature convenes in January, offer a constitutional amendment instituting term limits of 12 years for all elective offices.
Go, Donna, go.
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
In looking at the Early Voting numbers now appearing on the Texas Secretary of State’s website, Donna Campbell is kicking Jeff Wentworth(less)’ completely worthless a–.
She is beating Wentworth(less) utterly senseless.
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anonymous says:
Wentworth got crushed in Bexar county in Early voting, just as I predicted.
Please, everyone else stop using this anonymous screen name.
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