08 Senate: First Candidate Formally Announces

Emil Reichstadt, a Dallas attorney and heretofore unknown political quantity, has become the first person to announce he will seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by John Cornyn.

Here are some press release excerpts:

Saying that he is deeply concerned about the welfare of American children and alarming environmental and national security issues, longtime local private practice attorney Emil Reichstadt is declaring for the Texas 2008 U.S. Senate race Thursday, April 19, on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas.

The 58-year-old Democrat, who earned his undergraduate degree at SMU, will read a short statement and answer questions at 11:00 a.m. in the Forum at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center.

Recalling how former SMU president, friend and mentor Willis D. Tate challenged young minds to take action “for what is best in America,” Reichstadt says, “I am doing just that Thursday. We need to secure our borders and make this country a better, safer place for our children. I believe I can work with both Democrats and Republicans to make that happen.”

Reichstadt, a former Army JAG officer, believes in a strong military. “We need to foster our leaders in the military as subject-matter experts and rely on their expertise,” he says. “We cannot wallow in military policies of politics; we must let our soldiers protect themselves. We are mired in sinking sand in Iraq, in the middle of a civil war that our best military minds sought to avoid. The war has been terribly mismanaged, and the incumbent, John Cornyn, has stood by and blindly supported that mismanagement.”

Congress also needs to focus more intensely on a myriad of environmental issues, especially the control of Co2 emissions, Reichstadt says.

Interesting.

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