Something You Must Do Today: Help Chris Bell
By Vince Leibowitz on Oct 31, 2006 in 2006 Texas Elections
The kids in your neighborhood will forgive you in ten years if you don’t buy 25 dollars worth of Halloween Candy and instead give that money to Chris Bell.
In fact, they’ll thank you because their public schools won’t be destroyed by school vouchers.
Seriously, though: please help Chris keep his TV and radio ads on the air. We cannot let his recent bump in the polls go to waste, folks. This is our prime opportunity.
This is the most important election of our generation. If we do not stop the Rick Perry/Tom DeLay/Tom Craddick machine once and for all with a win at the top, there is no limit to what the Republicans will be able to destroy.
So, if, this Halloween, you’d like to make sure there is a public school to send your kids to when they get old enough, have clean air to breathe, a generation of kids who can access medical care, and keep personal control of your uterus (ladies!), then please: skip the trip to Wal-Mart or Costco or Target for candy after work, give up your cokes/coffee for the rest of the week, and send Chris Bell whatever you can, and then keep your porch light off, put a “vote Democratic”sticker up there in place of whatever decorations you’ve got, and spend the evening calling people you know and reminding them to vote.
You won’t regret it (unlike paying good money to see The Blair Witch Project).
The Chris Bell campaign was caught in another lie yesterday, as it told the media that it had bought enough media time for the last week of the election. It turns out they have no cash, and no media purchased for the last week.
A couple weeks ago, the Chris Bell Big Lies campaign said they would get $5 Million from John O’Quinn, enough to run a real campaign. The financial report from yesterday shows Bell received $1 Million, and another million as a loan from O’Quinn. That aint 5 Million.
Houston Chronicle this morning reports the Bell Campaign has run out of gas.
Chris Bell does not have the money to have a marked television presence in the gubernatorial campaign’s final week. Because of the state’s size, television ads are crucial for a statewide run. It costs about $1 million to air an ad statewide for a week.
Chris Bell was simply an unfunded placeholder for 2006. If Bell steps aside and endorses Strayhorn, he could be a hero, instead of a zero.
No wonder Perry keeps pointing to the unfunded Bell as his main competitor. “Please don’ trow me in de briar patch,” sez Perry.
Sal Costello
http://www.StopPerry.com