Lib Media Admits:
Fisher a Moderate Counting on Low Information Voters
By
James Scott Trimm
Two day ago the liberal Fort Worth Star-Telegram (known to many as the Startlegram) endorsed Scott Fisher against Conservative hero Jonathan Stickland. Today, pretending to be neutral journalism, the Startlegram covered the front page with a supposedly neutral piece on the District 92 race.
But if we read between the lines of the Starlegram article, some very interesting admissions come out.
Admission One: Fisher is a "Moderate" (translation: Liberal)
The Startlegram says:
The future of the Republican Party lies in Tarrant County.
And depending on how a few heated primary battles here turn out, it could help determine whether the party — and, more broadly, the Legislature — becomes more conservative or moderate.
Admission Two: Fisher Was Recruited by the Austin Establishment to Oust Stickland
This was breaking news when I broke this story in this very blog back on October 20th. Now the Startlegram essentially admits this is the case sayinging Fisher "is backed by establishment Republicans." and quotes Mark P. Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston as saying:
“If the GOP establishment and Austin Lobby could get rid of only one incumbent legislator this cycle, that incumbent would most likely be Stickland,”
Admission Three: Fisher is Counting on Low Information Voters
By "Low Information Voters" I mean voters that may be tuned into the Presidential campaign, but have little knowledge of what has been going on in Austin in the State Legislature. The Startlegram quotes Harvey Kronberg, publisher of the Quorum Report as saying:
“The Stickland part of the party does best in the mid-term elections … because they’ve got their grassroots networks that are more effective in lower-turnout elections.”
In other words Fisher is counting on votes from people who do not follow state politics and do turn out for the statewide gubernatorial races, but only show up for presidential elections, particularly if there is an atypically high turn out for a presidential election. Fisher is counting on low information voters to vote for him.
Admission Four: Fisher Supported Obamacare
In today's article the Startlegram said:
Empower Texans recently weighed in on the race, criticizing Fisher for his work while on the JPS Board. “Even as Jonathan Stickland was fighting against liberal efforts to bring Obamacare to Texas,” Fisher, as past chair of the JPS board, “advocated for the state to be pulled into ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion scheme.”
And in their endorsement article on February 9th they said:
Fisher is dogged by a 2013 hospital board
resolution asking the Legislature for more money to fund indigent care, listing
as one “possible option” to include more Texans in federal Medicaid.
It is reasonable for a county hospital
trustee to ask the Legislature for more money for indigent care, particularly
when many patients come from other counties that never contribute a dime.
The Sartlegram actually tries to justify Fisher's support for Obamacare, though Fisher himself has dug in his heals denying the fact that he supported Obamacare even in the face of documents now made public which prove that he did!
Jonathan Stickland is the true conservative, with a perfect conservative voting record. Stickland is the only legislator in the House of Representatives to have a perfect conservative record. Here are his scores:
Even the Dallas Observer wrote:
"Considering Stickland's bona fides, it's hard to see
much room for Fisher to attack the state representative from the right."
(Oct. 2nd 2015)
Do not let Straus and the Austin establishment succeed in their attempt to oust a conservative champion from the Texas House, and replace him with a Straus recruit! I encourage you to join me in supporting true conservative Jonathan Stickland.
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