HD-32 Update: Juan Garcia Campaign HQ Grand Opening & the Chron hits Hunter

[theredstate]

For those of you in or near House District 32 this weekend:

Headquarters Grand Opening This Sunday

Come celebrate the opening of The Juan Garcia Campaign headquarters and sign up to help keep Juan as our Representative in Austin. Sure to be lots of fun with grilled burgers and hot dogs, cold drinks, and live music on hand. Pick up a t-shirt, yard sign, and bumper sticker when you drop by.

Sunday August 17th, 2-4 pm
5333 Yorktown Ste H, between Staples and Everheart
(in the same complex as last election´s headquarters)
Corpus Christi TX, 78413
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5333+Yorktown+Blvd,+Corpus+Christi,+Nueces,+Texas+78413,+United+States&sll=29.42449,-98.49462&sspn=0.702131,1.279907&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,27.668481,-97.400074&t=h&ll=27.668991,-97.400064&spn=0.011155,0.019999&z=16&iwloc=addr">MAP

Even the http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/robison/5935558.html">Houston Chronicle doesn't think much of Todd Hunter:

Craddick's man not a good bet

Take, for example, Todd Hunter, a legislative candidate whom Craddick hopes will help him hang onto power. Hunter, a former Democratic House member who is now a Republican, is challenging first-term Democratic Rep. Juan Garcia of Corpus Christi, a Craddick foe who narrowly unseated a Republican incumbent two years ago.

It is one of several House races that will determine whether Democrats recapture a House majority

"I am very, very anti-tax," Hunter recently told Republican online viewers.

Oops!

Within days, the Texas Democratic Party had unearthed copies of old record votes indicating that Hunter voted twice to increase the sales tax in 1990 and supported increases in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes in 1991.

"Todd Hunter's anti-tax claim is an example of a politician at his worst, hoping voters will share his selective amnesia," Texas Democratic Chairman Boyd Richie said.

[sonias]

1. Hunter's selective amnesia

I feel this is a common ailment of Texas Republicans, they will say anything to get elected. Rumors are now swirling about that the Texas Republican party is about to launch a "Contract on Texas" similar to Newt's "Contract on America". And yes I am using my term and not theirs.

Capitol Annex blog
The "Contract With Texans" is set to include a number of the Texas GOP's hallmark issues: passing voter ID, fighting illegal immigration, imposing appraisal caps, abolishing the margins tax, and the so-called Phil King Plan to eliminate sales tax exemptions.

They will say anything whether its true or not to get elected. :grr:

Sonia