The Presidential election is not the only big race going on in the states this year. Let's not forget that throughout the nation there are members of Congress, Govenors, State Representatives and Mayors are up for reelection etc. One in particular here in Texas is who I am going to focus on today.
Rick Noriega is a Houston Democrat vying for the Democrat spot this March Primary to face off against incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn from Dallas in November. What attracts me to this candidate versus the other one is that he has community support and in particular military experience in Afghanistan. I agree with his positions and in my opinion seems like the best candidate to out manuver Cornyn.
Noriega is also savy and understands that even though he has served his country in the military it does not mean that he is immune from the GOP smear machine. One only needs to think back to 04 when former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia was linked to Osama bin Laden. This patriot was an amputee due to the Vietnam was but was unable to survive the smear campaign.
Thus, Noriega has elected not to release his military record to the Texas Republican Party who asked for his permission to have access to the records. Some conservatives out in the blogoshphere claim that Noriega has something to hide. I would argue that's not the case, it is quite obvious that his best trait is the one that the GOP must tarnish if they were to have a chance this November.
