Klicks Dirty Trick's - Evil Prevailed Last Night
By
James Scott Trimm
It has been said that the only thing necessary for evil to prevail, is for good men to do (or say) nothing. So let it be with the recent election for House District 91. I am supposed to move on, perhaps even congratulate Mrs. Klick on her victory. But I cannot do that. The world needs to know and remember, that evil prevailed.
David Lowe, a decorated American combat veteran, ran a clean, issue based campaign. A campaign of which he could be proud. He knocked on 9,000 doors and talked one on one with voters, On Primary day, most of Klick's constituents voted against her, bringing her into a runoff with David Lowe.
The serious dishonesty from the Klick campaign began when they began airing TV and radio ads that played an out of context audio quote from David Lowe, cut off in the middle of a sentence, to make it appear David Lowe is pro-choice, which then immediately cut to pleasant music and "but pro-life champion Stephanie Klick..." In fact the quote was cut off before Lowe said the words "all we need to do is abolish abortion in Texas," This dirty trick was bad enough, but it was nothing compared to what came later.
The Klick camp waited until five days before early runoff voting began, and then released an all out assault of blatant lies about David Lowe. Mailers and Facebook ads declared that Lowe owned pornographic websites, had invested in pornographic businesses , was involved in "human trafficking" and that this had been "uncovered by law enforcement". All of these things were patently false. David Lowe was never owned or operated a pornographic website, never invested in a pornographic business, was certainly never involved in human trafficking, nor was he involved in any criminal activity uncovered by law enforcement. All of these things, stated by Facebook ads and mailers that bombarded the voters of HD 91 just as early voting began. This was intentionally launched just before and during early voting, so that there would be no time to effectively respond to the large number of lies.
The truth is that over ten years ago, David Lowe engaged in armature "Domain Name Peculation", an investment scheme of purchasing domain names and holding them, hoping to sell them at a higher value. This is an internet analogy to land speculation. At no time did David operate any pornographic websites. The domain names remained "parked" waiting for resale, David owned literally hundreds of domain names at the time. which he bought and traded in bulk, the vast majority of which were innocuous domain names. However a domain name is not a website, nor is it a business, any more than a physical address is a building (it may only be an empty lot). And even a bad sounding domain name, can be used simply to drive internet traffic. One could, for example. purchase a naughty sounding domain name, and point it to a Christian website, in an effort to reach the lost. Or the domain "findsomesex.com" could used as a clever name for a business that gives sonograms and tells you the sex of your baby. The point is, that a url is not, in itself a website of a business.
The fact is that the Klick camp launched a campaign of outright lies about David Lowe in a last minute, dirty tricks campaign, and sadly, our Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn, participated in this campaign of lies, whole heatedly!
The sad fact is that the trust of the voters was violated and this election was stolen from the voters just as sure as if the ballot box was stuffed.
I am supposed to keep my mouth shut about this steal and take this loss gracefully. After all, if I say anything about these things, it is "sour grapes". But far more importantly, my silence is all evil needs to prevail and propagate,
Evil prevailed, but I am making sure that it has done so in broad daylight, not under the cover of darkness!
