Texas Senate Race Update for July 13, 2012

Happy Friday the 13th! The big news this week is Ted Cruz topping David Dewhurst in two separate external polls (none of this internal crap) and Dewhurst not only making a pro-amnesty speech in 2007, but making things ten times worse by trying to scrub mention of it off his website.

  • Here’s the memo for that Wenzel Strategies poll.
  • Paul Burka believes the poll numbers. “I’m buying. The Dewhurst camp ran a lackluster campaign.” And then the usual Rick Perry bashing. (“From Smitty’s BBQ I stab at thee!”)
  • Speaking of Burka, he breaks down Cruz and Dewhurst primary voting patterns. Cruz dominated urban and suburban counties, while Dewhurst dominated rural counties.
  • Dewhurst has lost his edge.
  • Those polls were so good for Cruz, some people are already starting to suggest that Cruz might have coattails.
  • Now on to what some on Twitter are calling #404gate: In a 2007 speech in Laredo, Dewhurst said “I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally.” If not full-blown Amnesty, I think it’s fair to call that “Amnesty light.”
  • However, Team Dewhurst really stepped in it when someone working for the State of Texas pulled the speech down off the website.
  • Pulling the amnesty speech has just drawn more attention to it. I believe in the world of soccer this is what’s known as an “own goal.”
  • Has no one at Team Dewhurst every heard of “the Internet?” One does not simply remove something from the Internet. There’s always going to be a cache of it somewhere. And, indeed, there is.
  • Dewhurst slamming Cruz for being a “Washington Insider” hasn’t kept the Lt. Governor from taking a fundraising trip to Capitol Hill.
  • Cruz slams Dewhurst for breaking his promise to debate.
  • Peggy Fikac at the Houston Chronicle does the usual “Tea Party vs. Establishment” roundup of the race.
  • David Wiegel says that the redistricting fight helped Cruz.
  • Cruz unveils another ad to slam Dewhurst over the wage tax:

  • New Club for Growth anti-Dewhurst ad:

  • Radio host Lynn Woolley endorses Cruz.
  • Meanwhile, team Dewhurst keeps hitting the China issue, despite Dewhurst’s many investments in China.
  • Cruz fined $200 for turning in his personal disclosure form late. Cruz’s form is also available at the link.
  • Dewhurst has the Texas Republican Senate Caucus issue a letter kinda, sorta denying Cruz’s charges against Dewhurst on sanctuary cities, spending, and TSA groping. But if you actually read the letter, it only details the bare-bones legislative maneuvers, and not what Dewhurst did behind the scenes (which made up much of Cruz’s accusations). But give Dewhurst credit: He did get every Republican State Senator except Brian Birdwell to sign it.
  • Dewhurst appeared on KTSA:

  • Also on KSKY:

  • He also appeared on Fox News I would embed the video of it here, but the video quality is stunningly awful. We’re talking “wouldn’t even be acceptable for online viewing in 1997” awful…
  • You know, this Dewhurst Facebook Timeline parody attack video on Cruz might almost have been amusing if they could have made it shorter. But right there at 1:14, when it says “DC Special Interest Groups,” it has very legible icons for Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and Senate Conservative PAC Fund. Guys, for the majority of people voting in the Texas Republican runoff, those are reasons to vote for Ted Cruz, not against him:

  • And once again, the Dewhurst campaign is slamming Cruz for being…a lawyer.
  • Meanwhile, Democrat Paul Sadler swears up and down he can win the general election. Also says the Astros are a “lock” to make the World Series this year.
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