Joe Trippi to be on Team Bell!

[WestHoustonDem]

According to Kuff (http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/005261.html), the Quorum Report (subscriber only service) is reporting that Joe Trippi has joined Chris Bell's campaign. What great news!

[babylonsister]

1. Hey, WHD! How are you?

I guess Chris Bell is the go-to guy. I do believe I've voted for him, or wanted to. But being on the cusp of Houston politics, I can only vote for state politicians. I live a block away from Houston 'proper', but couldn't vote for a mayor. But we CAN have fireworks here, lucky us. :crazy:

[WestHoustonDem]

2. Doing great babylonsister

Maybe we'll see you at the RAID event on the 16th?

[Lisa0825]

3. I just got confirmation on this!

It's a fact! Heard from someone who was at Democracy for Houston, at which Chris Bell spoke last night.

[crispini]

4. Wow. Now THAT's exciting.

The gov race is going to be EXTREMELY entertaining next year.

Last night at DFA we heard from a couple of school board candidiates who say that there are a LOT of people involved with their schools who are PO'ed about HB2 and HB3. And they pointed out the immediate political connection -- they were passed mostly because Gov. Goodhair wanted some "accomplishment" to run against KBH with. These candidates really seemed to think there would be a citizen backlash against Perry and anyone who had voted for these bills.

One of the guys told us about getting email from one of his R friends with the text of the speech Lon Burnam gave against the bills and the REPUBLICAN friend said, "Sure wish my rep had done something like this."