A commenter asked if I found any District 97 direct mail that talked about the House Speaker and his leadership, since this will likely be an issue in next year's House races.

Courtesy: Barrett campaign One of four Dan Barrett mail pieces

To answer his question, the direct mail dump I received didn't include any pieces that made reference to Craddick; all my mail was from Republican candidates, none of whom has ruled out supporting the current speaker. The only candidate in the race who does not support Craddick is the Democrat, and his pieces DEFINITELY refer to the current leadership.
Full mailer is here.

The six pawns shown in the image are clearly a reference to the other six candidates in the race. Craddick is referred to as "iron-fisted" and responsible for a "record of scandals and failures" before the bottom of the mailer reads, "Choose Change! Choose Dan Barrett!"

1 Comments

joe said:

Thanks!

"The Austin leadership gave a foreign company $90 million to manage CHIP, but the company bungled its job and denied
health benefits to 22,000 Texas children."

I guess this is like a case study for 2008. Some are saying the leadership debacle involves too much inside baseball to translate to votes. It will be interesting to see if this message resonates with voters. At the very least, nobody is willing to send a mailpiece in support of Craddick.

Thanks for the followup to my comment!

October 30, 2007 10:41 PM

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