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Texas: Harris County Democratic Party

November 3, 2009 - 08:16 am
NEWS FEED: Bay Area Houston

$100 reward for the anonymous robodialer.

By johncoby@sbcglobal.net (John Coby)

Someone is making anonymous robodial calls concerning the race for Houston City Controller. Whoever is making the calls is doing so anonymously and spreading false information. It is bad enough that the Mayor and the Harris County Democratic Party has issued a statement:
The Harris County Democratic Party and its leaders would not stoop to making anonymous telephone smears against any candidate – let alone one as competent, capable, and loyal to the Democratic Party as Ronald Green.
As Muse pointed out, the HCDP does not get involved in city elections so the call must be bad enough for them to break out from this long standing policy.

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September 16, 2009 - 08:25 pm
NEWS FEED: Bay Area Houston

Stephen Costello, Democrat, republican, or whatever?

By noreply@blogger.com (John Coby)

Stephen Costello, candidate for City Council at large position 1, is having an identity crisis, with local Democratic clubs wondering just who he really is. At a club meeting in Clear Lake, Costello stately clearly he was an Independent.

Party affiliation doesn't matter in City Council races, but we all know who is who, unless the candidate is new to the political scene. Attempting to mislead anyone should and will be met with skepticism and an occasional blog post.

Turns out Costello is anything but independent. Not only has he donated to some of the most far right republican candidates, DeLay, Olson, Sekulla-Gibbs, and Culberson, he voted in the republican primaries in 2000, 2004, and 2008.

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