Tea Party Candidate In Texas Makes Viral "Turtle Soup" Campaign Ad

Daily Beast ^ | 2/18/14 | Ben Jacobs Washington Bureau

[jimbo123]

Dwayne Stovall regrets he didn’t start talking about turtle soup earlier.

Stovall is a Tea Party conservative running for Senate in Texas’s Republican primary against incumbent John Cornyn as well as Rep. Steve Stockman. Stovall brags about his grassroots campaign with 1100 volunteers and his track record in straw polls but he wasn’t registering nationally until last week when a quirky campaign ad went viral.

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Stovall told The Daily Beast that he never planned to release that ad,” I was not going to do that, not my style.” He was filming other television spots in January and his campaign manager and the producer wanted to do the turtle soup spot. Eventually, Stovall acquiesced to filming it but insisted it would “never see the light of day.”

Then, after Cornyn and McConnell provided the pivotal votes for cloture to end debate on raising the debt ceiling last week, Stovall changed his mind, “it had a visceral effect on me . . I was so mad about it . . .and just said release [the video].

Stovall seemed somewhat disappointed that it took the video to get him national attention instead of his ongoing concerns about the national debt. In his opinion, we are “enslaving ourselves with of this debt. There’s an elite class of political people and they create our debt, expand size and scope of government and encroach on our freedoms everyday.”

[txhurl]

Denton county is looking like a bellwether.. kinda like a TX Iowa.

I’ve been poring over Denton Co.’s engagements (FB) the last two weeks... they seem neutral in the Senate race.

[deport]

It would be interesting to see that same map displayed for the runoff vote.
The totals for Cruz and Dewhurst was almost reversed.

Runoff
Cruz     631,812   56.82% 
Dewhurst 480,126   43.17% 

Primary
Cruz     480,558   34.16% 
Dewhurst 627,731   44.62% 

[jimbo123]

Flashback Travis County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 16,783
Dewhurst Runoff 16,331
Difference -452

Cruz Primary 13,220
Cruz Runoff 16,331
Difference +3,111

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 10,593

[txhurl]

Interesting in Travis they got the same # of votes?

[Clump]

My family is always votes, but in the primaries we usually get on the same page right about now.
I emphasized to them that as long as they vote for anybody but Cornyn I’m happy. The main thing is that we deprive him of getting to 50%.
I recommended Stovall.
I’m still not sure about governor or rr commissioner.

[jimbo123]

Flashback Dallas County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 24,801
Dewhurst Runoff 33,815
Difference +9,014

Cruz Primary 23,368
Cruz Runoff 40,936
Difference +17,568

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 26,841

[jimbo123]

Flashback Tarrant County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 29,151
Dewhurst Runoff 29,867
Difference +726

Cruz Primary 30,499
Cruz Runoff 46,555
Difference +16,056

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 26,969

[jimbo123]

Correction

Flashback Travis County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 16,783
Dewhurst Runoff 16,331
Difference -452

Cruz Primary 13,220
Cruz Runoff 18,403
Difference +5,183

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 10,593

[jimbo123]

Flashback Collin County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 14,331
Dewhurst Runoff 15,013
Difference +682

Cruz Primary 16,578
Cruz Runoff 26,343
Difference +9,765

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 15,844

[jimbo123]

Flashback Bexar County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 25,882
Dewhurst Runoff 24,372
Difference -1,510

Cruz Primary 24,897
Cruz Runoff 31,829
Difference +6,932

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 12,726

[jimbo123]

Flashback Brazoria County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 10,174
Dewhurst Runoff 6,738
Difference -3,436

Cruz Primary 8,734
Cruz Runoff 12,566
Difference +3,832

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 3,393

[mrsmith]

"Duck Soup" would provide material for a good anti-Dem/RINO ad too.

[jimbo123]

Flashback Fort Bend County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 15,383
Dewhurst Runoff 9,570
Difference -5,813

Cruz Primary 15,275
Cruz Runoff 19,322
Difference +4,047

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 4,616

[txhurl]

It’s almost like our TEA leaders have chosen to enact the Prime Directive in terms of our candidates.

This is antagonizing.

[jimbo123]

Flashback Lubbock County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 11,509
Dewhurst Runoff 6,709
Difference -4,800

Cruz Primary 8,960
Cruz Runoff 8,526
Difference -434

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 3,616

[jimbo123]

Flashback Galveston County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 10,321
Dewhurst Runoff 8,678
Difference -1,643

Cruz Primary 8,730
Cruz Runoff 12,556
Difference +3,826

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 2,955

[jimbo123]

Flashback Williamson County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 13,291
Dewhurst Runoff 9,449
Difference -3,842

Cruz Primary 8,743
Cruz Runoff 11,110
Difference +2,367

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 8,594

[jimbo123]

Flashback Montgomery County Voting 2012

Dewhurst Primary 16,916
Dewhurst Runoff 12,031
Difference -4,885

Cruz Primary 20,657
Cruz Runoff 24,388
Difference +3,731

Not Dewhurst/Not Cruz Primary 6,554

[jimbo123]

2012 Dewhurst Vote % in Senate Primary By Select Large Counties:

Denton 31%
Collin 31%
Dallas 33%
Tarrant 34%
Montgomery 38%
Bexar 41%
Travis 41%
Williamson 43%
Fort Bend 44%
Harris 46%
Brazoria 46%
Galveston 47%
Lubbock 48%

State Average 45%

Remaining vote = Anyone But Dewhurst

[txhurl]

This summary proves North TX is more TEA than the rest of the state. And it seems NTX is breaking for Stovall.