Candidates in the News
Finally, some of the San Antonio media besides the Express-News are starting to pay attention to the campaign. WOAI’s trouble shooters checked out Rodriguez’s ads and found them to be true. Unfortunately, they’re true for both Bonilla and Rodriguez. They’ll be looking at Bonilla’s ads next.
The San Antonio Current has a much longer article worth the read. Some highlights:
San Antonio Current - Hating on the Candidates
But Craig Goodman, a political-science professor at Texas Tech, suggests that Bonilla could be a shadowy backbencher and even less effective now that his party won’t control the agenda. Then there’s that little matter of payback, which is always a bitch when you’re the one getting it. Bonilla could be up for a horse head in his bed (see also CATTLE entry below), for aggressive tactics like threatening Democratic lawmaker Marcy Kaptur of Ohio when she offered a last-minute amendment, saying he would zero out any project that benefited her constituents if she didn’t shut up. Now she’s the senior Democratic lady on the Appropriations Committee.
Now why did the Express-News endorse Bonilla?
San Antonio Current - Hating on the Candidates
Henry’s probably trying to protect any and all Texas meat industries, like he did with beef during the 2003 U.S. Mad-Cow scare. Remember how he fought country-of-origin labeling, saying the burden would be too costly for the industry? That’s more compelling than a case of the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob brain melt any day.
I suppose a cost-benefit analysis showed that victims of mad cow disease didn’t linger before dying, running up enormous health bills at tax payers expense. Or maybe, they figured most would be covered by private insurance. Good thing we have the government looking out for our best interests. Thanks Henry.
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