Mike Collier Has a Problem: Dan Patrick Ain't Taking His Bait

[TexasTowelie]

If his campaign is to gain momentum in the roughly three months before Election Day, Collier needs to smoke Patrick out of the hole he’s hiding in — and fast.


Mike Collier has been publicly trying to get a rise out of the usually bombastic Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick ever since he launched his campaign to unseat him in June 2017. More than a year later, he’s largely failed to do so.

It’s not for a lack of trying. At the Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth in June, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor lit up the arena with a speech that took several whacks at Patrick.

“Now when it comes to creatin’ jobs, who are you gonna trust?” he asked. Patrick, a “once-bankrupted radio shock jock from the East Coast whose hair is fake, his name is fake and his pickup truck is fake.” Or himself, a “30-year business leader who went to public schools here, marched in the Longhorn band; my hair is real, my name is real and my Ford F-150 is real.”

A former Republican, corporate accountant and 2014 Democratic state comptroller candidate, Collier’s campaign centers on trolling Patrick about his myriad policy failures and toxic politics. “I think he’s really an awful, awful leader,” Collier told the Observer. “He doesn’t share our values, he doesn’t try to solve problems, his modus operandi is to pit one Texan against another and stir up anger and try to turn votes out of that. It’s just repulsive.”

Read more: https://www.texasobserver.org/mike-collier-has-a-problem-dan-patrick-aint-taking-his-bait/

[Gothmog]

1. I really like Mike Collier

I hope that he beats Patrick

[walkingman]

2. Not a snowball's chance in hell. The GOP rules Texas and will for the foreseeable future.

[Gothmog]

3. #DoNothingDan refuses to debate @CollierForTexas

Link to tweet

[TexasTowelie]

4. That image is fowl. nt