Elizabeth Warren backs Eliz Markowitz in battleground Texas House race.
The U.S. senator from Massachusetts is the latest Democratic presidential candidate to get involved in the Jan. 28 special election runoff for House District 28.
Posted on 01/30/2020 7:09:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Before Robert “Beto” Francis O’Rourke’s frenetic mannerisms, weird statements, and bold call for total gun confiscation knocked him out of the Democrat presidential primaries, he was considered one of the great hopes of the Democrat Party in Texas. After all, in 2018, in the great, red state of Texas, he had almost beaten Senator Ted Cruz’s bid for reelection.
Eliz Markowitz was Beto’s designated successor and really thought she could win in Texas House District 28, a Houston suburb. But just like Beto, Markowitz flamed out, although more spectacularly than Beto did.
Markowitz, a Ph.D. who calls herself “doctor” (making her as pretentious as Jill Biden), is a garden-variety 21st century Democrat. With her specialty in teacher training, Markowitz's major platform stance was about education. Mostly, she wanted more money for public schools, although she should get kudos for promoting vocational training.
Markowitz also wanted more Obamacare, an end to the war on drugs and “mass incarceration,” the usual climate change wealth redistribution and return to a pre-modern era, gun control, immigration reform that sounds remarkably like a call for amnesty and open borders, and, of course, an end to photo ID for elections. No wonder the Democrat establishment fell in love with her.
That love meant that Markowitz’s defeat wasn’t for want of trying on the part of that same Democrat establishment. Beto himself was at her side most of the way (which might have been part of her problem). Beto also placed at her disposal Powered by People, a political action committee that he had founded. The PAC put 1,000 people on the ground to help Markowitz’s campaign.
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That kind of support also helped Markowitz catch the eye of national presidential candidates. She received endorsements from Biden and Warren.
DIDN'T WORK.
58% to 42%. That’s enormous!!!
And she’s photogenic. Big time
In Freeper parlance: Guilty!
Isn’t she a cutie - looks like she cause a famine in a sub-Saharan country all by herself
Homunculette.
CC
It looks like she was a stand-in for Beto.
In other words, her campaign is like — “If you like Beto, vote for me. You’ll get him and his policies.”
Open auditions for Creepshow 4 the movie? Then again the Democrats are a nonstop Creepshow!
A match made in heaven!
Well.....she is BIG.
She may have lost the election but she’s already a regular on The Biggest Loser TV show. A loser in more ways than one.
Piled
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” The PAC put 1,000 people on the ground to help Markowitz’s campaign.”
THIS should truly frighten Democrats. Financing volunteers, transporting them, feeding them, often putting them up for days are among the major expenditures of a presidential campaign. I was put up and fed for ten days in 2004 and saw the workings of that campaign up close.
If a thousand volunteers working in a state representative district could only produce a 58/42 ass kicking the rat has lots to worry about.
Everything is Bigger in Texas!
Before this vote, I read that in the prior election in this district, the Dem candidate scored in the high 30%’s against a split field. So 42% should have been a reasonable projection for what the Dems can muster there, given all the outside money and interference. The Dems’/media’s “inflate expectations” game failed again, turning business as usual into a major defeat. So sad...
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