Strayhorn: Did She Forget She Stood By Silently As The Republicans Fractured The State She Now Seeks To Save?

So, Carole Strayhorn says partisanship must end. If that doesn’t make your head spin, I don’t know what will. Strayhorn has been one of the biggest GOP Partisans in Austin for the past decade. Yet now, she is singing an all together different tune:

“I shall die a Texas independent,” said Strayhorn, the Republican state comptroller, who is trying to get on the November ballot as an independent. “I think that this governor has so politically fractured this state that the only way to get something done is to set aside the partisan politics.”

It’s good that she used such flowery prose, because that statement will no doubt be the equivelant of her final letter from the Alamo, as this will be the end of her political career.

She also forgets that her party, the Republicans, played a greater role than Rick perry in fracturing this state. Does she forget that it wasn’t just Perry, but the Republicans in the Lege that fractured working relationship of pols through such stupid moves as drastic budget cuts and redistricting? Where was she speaking out against these things? Sure, she spoke out against some of the budget cuts—no doubt because it was politically expediant—but she never said a word about Redistricting or the rest of the partisan activities.

Once again, mere words from one not yet a candidate.

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