"Band of Brothers" Pulls Strings for Cruz Campaign
The establishment nearly always wins in Texas politics, so Jason Johnson, a longtime Republican consultant, said he thought it would be next to impossible to stop a powerful and wealthy lieutenant governor who would never run out of money or friends.
But when Johnson stumbled into a cab last week during the state Republican convention in Fort Worth, he knew his candidate for the U.S. Senate had crossed a legitimacy threshold he could not have envisioned even a few weeks ago.
The taxi driver, neither a native English speaker nor a political junkie, turned to Johnson and asked him ...
Comments (3)
Carol Goodwin
Ted is so superior to David and David knows it! He cannot compete with real intellect so he is slinging mud. It is not pretty and it is not admirable Stop all th lies, Dewhurst! No one is listening.
You are spinning your wheels
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Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
sounds like an orgasmic repressed frenzy of the moment: when are they all gonna have a Molly Ivins epiphany?
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh, the HORROR! The professional political class was unable to crush the rank and file activist's candidate; NOT just Tea Party (as a local Tea Party leader, I assure you; if it was just us, there would be now runoff): traditional conservatives, social conservatives, and even libertarian types are united on Cruz. What does Dewhurst have? The powerful 'Powers That Be' and... darn little grassroots support at all. He didn't think it important to court them and made it QUITE clear early on.