The local US Congress race (TX-32: Frost v Sessions) is getting uglier each day, and is apparently being watched nationwide. During one of last years' special sessions of the Texas legislature, the GOP gerrymandered some districts (remember when the Texas Democrats left the state en masse, first for Oklahoma, then New Mexico, to stall that effort?) so that more Republicans would be elected; this district is a test of that tactic.
Both campaigns have yard signs ... ranging from small ones to 4x4 foot signs, which are impossible to ignore. Pete Sessions (4 terms in office) has REPUBLICAN at the bottom, while Martin Frost's (13th terms) don't mention his party. That's because Frost (26 years in office, versus 8 for Sessions) knows that the party label is what Texans vote for .. not the candidate. Martin Front's 4x4 foot yard signs lists his website, but Sessions does not .. which is just bizarre. Maybe it's someplace in the small print, which appears to be in 6 point type and hence invisible from a moving vehicle.
I spotted one of Frost's 4x4 signs that has been defaced -- with the word DEMOCRAT in neon-pink letters. I'm guessing the (rocket scientist) culprit didn't know how to draw a 6-sided yellow Star of David; there are few classes on How To Be Derogatory.
Sunday night, Sessions and Frost held the first of five (5) planned debates, but I couldn't find it. Hmm, maybe it was on TXCN (Texas Cable News, which is probably losing millions). The next one is October 6th at Mountain View College in Dallas (southwest of downtown).
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