Political calculus of Texas Democrats understandable
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is in Texas today for political fundraisers in Dallas & Houston. Upon the announcement that Pelosi was coming to the Lone Star State Democrats Chet Edwards & Ciro Rodriguez promptly announced that they had other plans and would not meet with their Speaker.
Their actions echo those of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White a few weeks ago who was busy touring small-to-mid-sized West Texas cities when President Obama visited Texas even though he supports the Obama agenda.
The political calculus the Texas Democrats have made is understandable.
Democrats like Chet Edwards and Ciro Rodriguez ran the other way when word broke that Pelosi was coming to Texas but no one is fooled: Edwards and Rodriguez vote with her and they support her failed far left agenda. Its long past time to fire
Nancy Pelosi and all of her Texas henchmen" said
Republican Party of Texas spokesman Bryan Preston.
Pelosi is among the most polarizing and unpopular political figures in the nation and she has led Congress into passing what many claim to be bloated ineffective and irresponsible stimulus bills as well as passage of an unpopular expensive health care takeover bill.
Under the Obama-Pelosi Democrats leadership unemployment has continued to rise across the nation and taxes are projected to increase further at the beginning of 2011 which economists fear will hurt an already struggling U.S. economy.
But while Edwards and Rodriguez wont appear with Pelosi they have voted in lock step with her and if sent back to Congress would continue to do so. Both are out of step Republicans claeim with their districts and are beholden to an agenda that Texans have repeatedly rejected for decades.
Nancy Pelosi is the living portrait of the arrogant out of touch elitist Democrat" said the Republican Party of Texas
Bryan Preston.
In the face of genuine grassroots opposition to her leftwing agenda the paranoid Pelosi invents bizarre conspiracy theories. And in the face of growing unemployment across America she dines with high rolling trial lawyers to
generate cash for her wealthy limousine liberal friends to perpetuate the Democrats destructive job killing policies" said Preston.
The Dallas fundraiser will be hosted by the Baron family.
The late Fred Baron a Dallas trial lawyer made headlines in 2008 for admitting that he paid to help conceal former Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards illicit relationship with his then campaign videographer.
The Baron fortune continues to fund both the Texas Democratic Party and Washington D.C. operative Matt Angle of the
Lone Star Project.
