Dewhurst Shifts Focus From Cruz to Leppert

After several weeks of focusing his attacks in his bid for U.S. Senate on former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst launched a broadside against former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert on Wednesday.

Dewhurst’s campaign unveiled LiberalTomLeppert.com, a site filled with criticisms of Leppert’s record while mayor of Dallas, all of which Leppert has in the past dismissed as false or misleading. Though records show the web domain was purchased last month, Dewhurst’s campaign only began promoting the site on Twitter on Wednesday. A LiberalTomLeppert YouTube account was also created Wednesday with a ...

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