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.”

[peyton randolph]

I’m in Collin County. About 70% GOP. Densely populated suburb of Dallas.

I was 12th to vote in GOP primary in my precinct. 27 had voted in Democrat primary. Early afternoon so perhaps shift in turnout as people got off work in the evening.

[deport]

Here is the Early Voting Totals for the largest 15 counties which Collin is one.
This data is published daily except on weekends if I remember correctly.

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/2014/feb18.shtml

[peyton randolph]

Thanks for the link!