When asked about it, Streusand said, "A contributor to John's campaign also represented Planned Parenthood. Therefore, the statement was correct."
Lowry adds,
I urge all Christian, pro-life, and pro-family voters to take a stand and walk away from Ben Streusand. Send a defining roar to him - and to all others - "We will not tolerate Push Calls".
I recently did something that I very rarely do. I took sides in a Republican Primary. In the new 10th Congressional District, I endorsed Michael McCaul.
I did this for two reasons. The first is that Michael McCaul is exactly the right kind of person we need representing us in Washington right now. He has an entire career's worth of experience in tough issues like crime and anti-terrorism. Who better to stand up for us and make sure our voice is heard in the United States House of Representatives than a tough, successful prosecutor?
As the author of Texas' Concealed Carry Legislation, I am very interested in gun rights. Michael McCaul is a life member of the NRA. When he worked for John Cornyn at the Texas AG's office, he created a program, endorsed by the NRA, called "Texas Exile." It was designed to keep guns out of the hands of felons, and it was so successful that Greg Abbott now has it as a centerpiece of his office.
Gun control advocates often use examples of criminals using guns to try and prohibit law-abiding citizens from carrying guns. Michael's plan was a great way to prohibit crime, while simultaneously preserving our firearm rights. This is just the kind of smart, effective, and conservative leadership we need on these kinds of issues.
And the other reason I feel strongly about endorsing Michael McCaul is because his opponent, Ben Struesand, has spent millions of dollars misrepresenting Michael's record. I have run for office many times, and I know what it is like to listen to an opponent twist and distort your record. Ben has gone far past the line of honesty. He accused Michael of not signing the "no new taxes" pledge, even though Michael had done so last year. He accused Michael of being a political appointee for Democrats, even though Michael has never been a political appointee. The list goes on and on.
Every Republican should vote for Michael McCaul in the April 13 runoff. Send a message that qualifications and conservative stands on the issues can beat negative campaigning.
Lowry adds, I urge all Christian, pro-life, and pro-family voters to take a stand and walk away from Ben Streusand. Send a defining roar to him - and to all others - "We will not tolerate Push Calls".
This is just FYI as I continue to find both candidates objectionable and probably wouldn't support either for much of anything given the opportunity or if either were running in another district (I still find Streusand the lesser of two evils - not by enough to make me go out for him though). But since that article came from Terry Lowry I decided to check into it further. The Pharisee Terry is one of the sleaziest people I have ever had the misfortune of knowing. I say that after seeing him in action for the last four primaries, after tracking his Link Letter's immoral campaign practices for the last two primaries, and after being overtly threatened by him in an email two years ago for calling attention to public information on file at the Texas Ethics Commission that demonstrated a 100% correlation between his endorsements and $20,000 "advertisement fees" in his newsletter. He is a political whore who will tell outright lies about candidates who refuse his propositions. In 2002 for example he publicly accused two candidates on the ballot of conspiring to bribe him with a $40,000 check. In reality it was Lowry who approached those two candidates with "invoices" for "advertisements" of the same ammount, one of which I still have a copy.
After reading the latest from him I made a couple phone calls to contacts back in Texas. I've heard it from three different sources now that the Planned Parenthood call against Devine did not come from Streusand but rather from what is believed to be, at minimum, a backer of McCaul. If it was McCaul I don't necessarily condemn him for that so long as what was claimed could be substantiated (though it would be wrong if it was a lie) or if people did it for him without his knowledge. I am also told that if you ask John Devine right now he too will tell you that it was a McCaul backer.
This seems to make more sense anyway because Streusand was the clear frontrunner going into the March primary. He therefore had no reason to single out and attack Devine over all the others, who was fighting it out with McCaul for the number 2 spot. McCauls backers did however know that to get into a runoff with Streusand they had to get through Devine in round one. Since he was the one who had the most to gain from it common sense already tells us his camp is the most likely suspect. And once again, I don't _necessarily_ condemn McCaul if he did it, especially if what was said in the call was true (i have not heard it, cannot speak on that, and would not trust Terry Lowry to provide an honest description of the color of his own car much less what was contained in that phone call). I also won't condemn him if somebody who simply supported him did it without his knowledge, as sometimes happens in races like these. But I do find Lowry's presentation of it to lack credibility and now believe him to have fabricated the charge against Streusand (and probably the Streusand quote as well as I know Lowry also had all sorts of "quotes" in 2002 when he was trying to accuse two candidates of conspiring to bribe him).
If I were Mike McCaul I would publicly disavow any association with Terry Lowry and will call on him right now to do so (and to all the Streusand backers out there: the same applies for your candidate with Steve Hotze). Unfortunately I don't expect him to do so and I don't expect that his opponent will do the same either with the other political prostitute who is feeding off this race...which all goes back to what I've been saying all along. For a field of 7 candidates, CD 10 sure produced a wretched lot!