Reply #45: Here is what my mother and most Texans would say... [View All]

[MrTriumph]

She'd say, "Goodness, looks like a high-powered lawyer from that big Enron firm is running for something." And is that what you want web site visitors to say?

No, Czolgosz, that's NOT what you want. Yes, her history gives us a sense that she is an accomplished, powerful lawyer. But NOTHING ties that into why she'd be a good senator for Texans. Zero.

Here, Czo, is what the site says: "Barbara Ann has been lead counsel in jury trials involving commercial disputes, medical malpractice, tax, contractual indemnity, false arrest, malicious prosecution, assault, premises liability, insurance defense matters, pedestrian and auto accidents, Section 1983 Civil Rights disputes, worker's compensation matters, and products liability. She has argued successfully before the Fifth Circuit on pro bono prisoner's rights and torts matters, and has conducted appeals there, and in Texas state appellate courts. Barbara Ann has represented clients in Congressional hearings and administrative tribunals."

Whoever wrote that for her should be shot. It does not say who's side she was on in most of the cases. For all we know she's defending drunken doctors, insurance scam artists, and the like. The one group she singles out as defending, prisoners, hardly is a group that most Texan feel need defending. Texans like to lock people up and throw away the key.

Further, who's she representing before congress? Rafael Palmeiro? Ollie North? Michael Corleone? There is no connection between her law practice at one of Texas most powerful and arguably most notorious law firms and the needs of Texans.

Now if she's been out fighting bigotry and doing all kinds of good things she needs to tell us so, but most importantly how it relates to her Senate race.

Finally, she needs to take a hard stand on more (most) issues, move issues to the forefront of her campaign and abandon the strategy that running on her accomplishments as a lawyer is going to get her elected.

(As an aside, may I mention the speaker that introduced her at the event where I heard BAR speak made a big deal about himself being a lawyer. And he said that it was important that she was a lawyer because she could speak well when making her case as a senator. Hmm. Since when has the ability to a make clear, persuasive case been reserved for lawyers?)