Democrats trying to buy wins in Texas

Houston Chronicle:

Little-known Texas organizations that support Democratic candidates are pouring money and personnel into Harris County at seldom-seen levels for the Nov. 4 election, with the help of a few wealthy statewide donors and national labor unions.

Although some of the money is sluiced to the Texas Democratic Party or other counties, the work is part of an unprecedented push to aim resources at Houston-area elections through two groups run by a Washington-based director: The Texas Democratic Trust and the Lone Star Fund.

Together they have raised about $3.3 million in the last 18 months, apart from money each candidate has collected, according to state Ethics Commission records.

In 2006, the same groups and donors helped Democratic candidates sweep out of office the Republican district attorney and Republican judges in Dallas County.

Now, the stakes are even higher in Harris County, the state's most populous, which provides a fat slice of the vote in statewide races.

Democrats were tossed from Harris County administrative and judicial offices in the 1994 and 1996 elections and have not recaptured any posts. But surveys, the voter roll and other indicators suggest that the Republican voting advantage in the county has melted to near nothing.

Republican Party donors show no sign of matching the Democrat effort of operating apart from their party. Instead the GOP is using the same strategy it followed with success in 2006 and previous elections — funneling money from influential donors through the state and local parties.

Disclosures on a complicated web of Republican and Democratic fundraising by federal and state committees indicate that Democrats have an edge, so far, in the total amount of money they can spend in Harris County. How much either party has decided to spend in Harris County remains secret.

The biggest donors to the Texas Democratic Trust are Dallas personal injury lawyer Fred Baron ($1.54 million), Houston personal injury lawyer John Eddie Williams ($450,000) and Dallas-area Container Store retail chain founder Garrett Boone and family ($400,000).

The trust put staffer Mike Malaise to work in Houston after he managed U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson's 2006 campaign. The group also has paid for consulting, polling and related campaign tools.

The Lone Star Fund, which relies heavily on $5,000 and $10,000 gifts from national labor unions, paid for such things as a Web site featuring "dossiers" on the scandals that have enveloped county Republican officials.

Both groups specialize in tuning and coordinating Democrats' campaign themes and giving candidates resources, such as voter lists.

The main message is that GOP incumbents are ethically corrupt while letting quality-of-life issues slip.

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Trial lawyers and labor thugs are trying to recapture Texas politics and give us more weasels like Nick Lampson. These are the same people who support Nancy Pelosi who wants to destroy the energy industry.

Democrats provide the worst possible government imposing high taxes and high regulation and protecting trail lawyers from ethics investigations. They are weak on national security and big on giving money to their constituent groups. The Republicans better fight back against these guys are they will turn Texas into a place like Ohio or Michigan.

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