Not Personal, Just Opportunistic
Seize this moment for reform: An opportunity for a new covenant (Chris Bell, Houston Chronicle)
During the past year, many have wanted to turn the ethics complaint I filed against DeLay into some sort of personal battle between DeLay and me, but that was never what the complaint was about.
Of course it wasn't.
It was about currying favor with party activists and the Netroots in preparation for the next political race.
We saw the same dynamic in action when Bell heroically *wink* *wink* made the "decision" to back out of "a divisive three-way runoff" and endorse Lee Brown, in return for the way being smoothed for Bell's run for Congress.
Neither actions were personal, just opportunistic.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/02/05 09:04 | Texas | Technorati
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That Chris Bell is a friggin' genius! Backing out of a three-way runoff!!!!
Such moral clarity in that one.
Posted by Chris Elam @ 13:05 on 10/02/05
I won't even pretend to act like I know what was going on in the deal with the 3-way run-off, and yes, he's certainly making hay with DeLay's troubles, and filed the complaint with a future election somewhere in the back of his mind, but c'mon -- you know DeLay was going to get his comeuppance sooner or later. Nobody is that sleazy, that arrogant, and that vindictive for that long without it coming back to bite him in the ass eventually.
Posted by another precinct chair @ 15:43 on 10/03/05
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