Replies

These three comments are revealing:

FROM: gottabesecretforthisone
TO: Anna Merlan
12/04/15 6:10pm

He was a partner in the Houston office of my law firm prior to running for Congress. Despite being largely conservative and Republican, everyone in the office (and the firm, generally) loathed him, so much so that to this day, no one wants to use his former office. It’s considered tainted.

I’ve not met a single person who has a good thing to say about him, even among the most rabidly Republican of my partners. I mean, when you think about it, in a normal situation, you’d expect a large law firm to leverage that connection as much as possible and, yet, you have to look long and hard to find so much as a peep acknowledging that he was ever connected to us. That’s telling.

FROM: NotaCharlatan
TO: gottabesecretforthisone
12/04/15 8:58pm

I had professional interaction with that scumbag while he was at Morgan Lewis. We hired him as appellate counsel due to his political ties on a big-money case that had gone off the rails. I wrote the f****** brief myself and he billed our client $250k for something like a week’s work, next to none of which was done by him (as opposed to the three or four Morgan Lewis associates on the case). He’s a charlatan.

FROM: Burnerbecauselawfirmsareuptight
TO: gottabesecretforthisone
12/04/15 11:44pm

Oooh, I feel you! After he left Texas, he worked in the office of the large DC law firm where I worked. I can’t tell the story because it might out me but within days of arriving he established that he was such a greedy, arrogant, sh***y human being that I came home from work and told my husband I wanted to punch that Ted Cruz guy in the face. Truth. I was an early adopter of wanting to punch him in his smug face.