Who’s afraid of John Courage in Senate District 25? Donna
Campbell, that’s who. After watching Courage and Campbell being interviewed by the San Antonio
Express News editorial board for an hour I can understand why she doesn’t want
to be seen in the same room as Courage. She’s both clueless and inarticulate; most
of her responses were TEA Party rhetoric without specifics.
With nearly half a million voters in Senate District 25 yet
to hear from Campbell
she’s only been seen at TEA Party events and cowering at the homes of existing
supporters. Campbell
won’t accept invitations to be interviewed by opinion writers for the major
newspapers in the district. When she and Courage have been invited to
non-partisan candidate forums she has refused the invitation which means those
organizations won’t let Courage address their members either because they don’t
want to be seen as partisan. When voters ask her questions she doesn’t want to
respond to on her Facebook page she bans them.
John Courage recognizes that Texas
per pupil funding for education is near the bottom in the U.S. causing
overcrowded classrooms in which there aren’t even enough desks for the students.
Campbell’s
solution is to violate the Texas Constitution and provide half the per student
funds to pay part of the tuition at religious schools.
Campbell
should be very afraid to be seen in the same venue as John Courage but voters
should demand it.
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When 1 candidate refuses to appear, the nonpartisan groups SHOULD let the other candidate speak and answer questions. This is the Republican way of suppressing knowledge and it is wrong. As long as if they don't show, their opponent can't, either, they'll continue to do this. However, if it is made clear to them that the opponenet will go on whether they are there or not, maybe that will change. As it is, it is a shameful way of keeping the voters in the dark about who either of the candidates are, and that is just plain anti-American.
ReplyDeletePublished in the NB Herald-Zeitung 9/17 http://herald-zeitung.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_ce53b4a2-0124-11e2-8178-0019bb2963f4.html
ReplyDeletePublished in the Gonzales Cannon 9/18