After last week's flare up in the Bell vs.
Bob Gammage showdown in the Democratic Primary over on
Burnt Orange Report, I thought it would be well worth having a cooling off period and I hoped that the campaigns would agree to a cease-fire more or less. But in politics what you think is positive chit-chat on the surface does not always reflect what goes on behind the scenes.
I had been getting e-mails from a number of people about supposed Chris Bell mail pieces which had been hitting over the last week, as series of 2-3 in which a negative "Gammage: Damage to Texas" section was included in increasing size in each mailer. The first evidence of that came to me a couple days ago in digital and physical copies of the Bell "Guts mailer".
You can see the first smallest attack
piece here. From the campaign expenditures on the TEC reports, it looks like 2-3 direct mail pieces to statewide Triple-D's, somewhere around 210,000 households. That came up in comment threads about the Gammage camp chosing to invest in statewide yardsign distribution instead of mail, which have indeed been appearing all over the state, and
UDems helped put about 1,000 of them together this on Wednesday night.
So when this ad (not sure where it's running yet) came my way, I figured it was a response to the Bell camp continuing to keep up the attacks in the mailers. But more importantly, regardless of which side you are on, this is one of the funniest, yet effective political ads I have seen this cycle. And apparently the Dallas Morning-News has an article on it in today's paper.
I can't wait to train this kind of creativity against Repulican Gov. Rick Perry and Independent candidate Carol Keeton Strayhorn. For other entertainment, you can check our former Gubernatorial candidate Felix Alvarado's post on the Latinos for Texas Blog.