I was born a poor, black child.
Nov. 14th, 2013 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23It's eight years this week that Eddie Guerrero died. Guerrero from El Paso's most pro famous wrestling family, had a saying in his Heel days- "Cheat to Win".
It's a sentiment that fellow Texan Dave Wilson surely appreciates. Wilson, a white Republican eeked out a victory in a strong Democratic Houston district that's predominately African-American.
This guy:
Won with this flyer.
Wilson won by 26 votes by portraying himself as a black man.
Wilson sent out fliers that featured almost exclusively Black people, all of them smiling. On it, he added the call to action: “Please vote for our friend and neighbor Dave Wilson.” Only the faces are not Wilson’s friends or neighbors, but rather just pictures that he stole off of various websites.
Hey, who needs friends when you have Google Image Search?
He also claimed an endorsement from his cousin Ron Wilson. Ron Wilson is a prominent black area politician.
Dave now happily says the Ron Wilson he meant was his cousin in Iowa.
Wilson is an anti-gay activist who took advantage of the worst case of opportunism ( I recall the 1986 Illinois election where the ethnic-named candidates lost to LaRouchites) , but hey, I gotta say, now that he's won the election, he's honest.
Wilson says his lies were really no different than any other lawmaker’s lies. “Every time a politician talks, he’s out there deceiving voters,” Wilson admits
It's a sentiment that fellow Texan Dave Wilson surely appreciates. Wilson, a white Republican eeked out a victory in a strong Democratic Houston district that's predominately African-American.
This guy:
Won with this flyer.
Wilson won by 26 votes by portraying himself as a black man.
Wilson sent out fliers that featured almost exclusively Black people, all of them smiling. On it, he added the call to action: “Please vote for our friend and neighbor Dave Wilson.” Only the faces are not Wilson’s friends or neighbors, but rather just pictures that he stole off of various websites.
Hey, who needs friends when you have Google Image Search?
He also claimed an endorsement from his cousin Ron Wilson. Ron Wilson is a prominent black area politician.
Dave now happily says the Ron Wilson he meant was his cousin in Iowa.
One of his mailers said he was "Endorsed by Ron Wilson," which longtime Houston voters might easily interpret as a statement of support from a former state representative of the same name who's also African-American. Fine print beneath the headline says "Ron Wilson and Dave Wilson are cousins," a reference to one of Wilson's relatives living in Iowa.
"He's a nice cousin," Wilson says, suppressing a laugh. "We played baseball in high school together. And he's endorsed me."
Wilson's opponent did say he did counter with his own mailers that included Wilson’s face and warned voters that he was a “right-wing hatemonger” who “advocated bringing back chain gangs to clean highways.”Wilson is an anti-gay activist who took advantage of the worst case of opportunism ( I recall the 1986 Illinois election where the ethnic-named candidates lost to LaRouchites) , but hey, I gotta say, now that he's won the election, he's honest.
Wilson says his lies were really no different than any other lawmaker’s lies. “Every time a politician talks, he’s out there deceiving voters,” Wilson admits
