Seasoned vs. Novice Candidates | by GlennM
At the Democracy for Texas meetup this evening it was interesting to see the difference between novice and seasoned candidates. The first few folks that spoke were new candidates. One of them started off by going through the usual Republican bashing. I'm sure she'd do better than the incumbent, but I kept thinking "I don't want to be part of the whiner party."
Then Kirk Watson spoke (with a nice intro by Will Wynn). He started off by talking about things Texans shouldn't be proud of. Our ranking of uninsured children. Our ranking in SAT scores. Yeah, there might have been some bashing mixed in. But the focus was on the issues he wanted to tackle, and why they mattered -- whey they affected us. He also asked for our support, which was something most of the other candidates failed to do in a room of hard-core activists. There's a reason why the TV cameras came on for Watson.