Republican dirty tricks, state Democratic party incompetence, or both? You decide.
The Texas District 18 State Senate seat has been held for years by Democrat-in-name-only Ken Armbrister. He's most famous for a joke he won't deny making: "Why did God make women? Because sheep can't type." It's in a lot of women's studies textbooks. Great. Finally this year he steps down.
Two Democratic candidates start the primary race: Bret Baldwin, a business consultant from one end of the district, and Henry Boehm, Jr., a physician from the other end of the district. Bret Baldwin is an actual Democrat; he has taken part in local Democratic activities, and while I don't know him well, I know that he is, like I said, an actual Democrat. Boehm I had never heard of. While trying to get a candidates forum together, I had to look for Boehm's contact information, using what every normal person uses--Google.
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