You have to question the intelligence of someone who thinks exchanging Texas’ more conservative policies with those of the liberal breed will be good for Texas. Just look around the country and see the difference between blue and red states during this recession. California anyone? Where has our common sense gone? In order for you to give your hard earned money to such a cause you either are not paying attention or you have an alternative motive.
I would indeed say that is the case for Houston trial lawyer Steve Mostyn. He and his wife have pledged to spend $3 million dollars to elect Bill White and other Democrats in the state of Texas. He is the mastermind behind the ‘Coward’ ads circulating in Dallas and Houston. They are actually being run by the Back to Basics PAC, which is almost solely funded by Mr. Mostyn. I will let you mull over the irony there. Many Veterans including Marcus Luttrell are not taking the ad lightly.
“Bill White should be ashamed of himself for supporting the gutless attacks his supporters have levied against Governor Perry…While Bill White lacked the courage to serve in the military, Governor Perry enlisted in the Air Force after college and truly knows what it means to have served our nation. Bill White is a complete phony who claims to support the military but has instead tried to restrict military voting rights. Bill White needs to take a long look at himself and maybe he will see what a coward really looks like.”
Bryan Preston, The Republican Party of Texas Communications director, exposed who was bankrolling these ads on a radio show in Midland. You can hear that conversation here if you would like. The bottom line is that Steve Mostyn is a trial lawyer (he is actually the President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association) who has made his money by filing frivolous lawsuits. His donations to the liberal cause are not donations, they are investments. Texas’ successful efforts at tort reform are extremely damaging to his way of life. The Back to Basics PAC is just a front for his true goals. The misleading statements on their site say it all for me.
“We honor the values our parents taught us: faith, family and freedom.”
I would hardly say that Mr. Mostyn and the Democratic Party he is funding hold these values. It is more likely he holds the values of Nancy Pelosi who he met with on her recent fundraising trip to Texas (I guess someone had to meet with her, Democratic politicians were nowhere to be found). On a fundraising trip hosted by the Baron Family. (Fred Baron is another trial lawyer who became famous after admitting he paid off people to keep the John Edwards affair quiet. ) Add to that his displeasure with the new Social Studies curriculum fought for by the State School Board and you get a better picture of what he actually stands for. So you can excuse me if I do not buy into the websites propaganda. Here is another good one.
“They ignore Texas families struggling to pay some of the highest homeowner’s insurance rates in the country”
Remember Mostyn is a trial lawyer. I made the connection above, but Preston puts it nicely I think.
“This Back to Basics PAC is bankrolled by Houston trial lawyer Steve Mostyn, a man who has made his millions filing lawsuits that have made Texans’ home insurance rates skyrocket in the past few years, while making himself extremely rich. Mostyn’s agenda is to overturn Texas’ successful tort reform so that he can keep filing lucrative lawsuits, and trial lawyer Bill White is only too happy to help out with that. If anyone is the coward here, it’s Bill White for hiding behind various front groups and attacking our great Governor from the weeds. Bill White should distance himself from Mostyn immediately and return all political contributions that Mostyn has given him.”
Like I said in the beginning. No one in their right mind would propose changing directions in this state…not unless they have an alternative motive. Steve Mostyn certainly has one. Perhaps a little off the Mostyn topic…but back to making Texas more liberal theme…I am suddenly reminded a story Rep Dan Branch relayed at the Texas Republican convention. He was being lectured by a California representative on how Texas needs to have a multiple leg tax system instead of our simple sales tax. He responded with “and how is that working out for yall in California”. What a perfect response. Its a response that we need to relay to anyone is this State who is pushing for the liberal mantra of “Change”.
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