Nov 2004 election coming soon to a neighborhood near you

[Connie Clark]

Bill White had all the money, especially after November, 
into the runoff, all the big money in town put it on him, 
figuring he would win.  Thus a landslide.  Bill White is 
a Democrat, just as Bob Lanier (another former mayor) is 
a Democrat, but runs with the oil and real estate rich 
crowd in this town.  I think Bill White will do a good job.  
It is far more impressive to me that Annise Parker (lesbian) 
won the job of City Controller (very powerful and high-
profile office) over a staunch Republican. And a relatively 
young and unknown black man won his race defeating another 
big Republican, former councilman.  Feels a little like a 
rug was pulled under the right-wing march.
 
Connie

Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com> wrote:

     Connie,

     I read in the paper this morning that a Dem just took the mayorship
     of Houston by a whopping 68% to 32%: grounds for some optimism, no?

     I thought of Dukakis when I was writing my email, another
     short type person. As voting decisions in a democracy rest on 
     random impulses on the part of unintelligent people, shortness 
     can be significant: Reagan was physically more impressive than 
     Carter for example, especially when riding a horse.

     Mike

     Connie Clark wrote:
     > 
     > Hilary gave it a 50/50 for the dems to win next year in her
interview
     > with Tim Russert. I had heard that Karl Rove is salivating over
Dean
     > as Dem candidate. I would agree with that assessment, even though
I
     > like Dean just fine, and he is going to be hard to be denied the
     > nomination. However, I took note that Hilllary also said that her
     > husband had only 2% of the vote in the first two shots at the
primary,
     > so who knows.
     > 
     > But about Dean, I believe that the Republicans feel very
confident,
     > and will run the same race that they ran against Dukakis in 1988
for
     > Bush senior. On the side, a couple of rigid repubs lost city
council
     > run-offs here in Houston Saturday, which is not a bad sign.
     > 
     > Connie


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