Reply #9: Other than witnesses saying (1) the candidate and his opponent's exhusband

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arrived separately, (2) the candidate did not encourage the exhusband, and (3) the candidate and his opponent's exhusband left separately, what more could someone offer to disprove the rumor that there was a link between a candidate and his opponent's exhusband's boorish behavior?

I really enjoy reading South Texas Chisme, but sometimes you have to take chisme as pure chisme and nothing more (and sometimes you have to take chisme as spin placed by a candidate or the people she does business with). In terms of actual facts, there can be no question that her candidacy is linked with El Defenzor (which is a judgment some would find questionable, but that's a separate issue) because her payments to El Defenzor are recorded by the Texas Ethics Commission. People associated with El Defenzor post all sorts of questionable nonsense on South Texas Chisme. What can you make of all this gossip? I don't know, but would you vote for a demonstrably less qualified candidate because of a rumor that he attended an event with his opponent's ex-husband? I hope not.

I think one thing that CouldBeTrue posted at South Texas Chisme warrants further consideration: "I don't want a person on the bench or all the judges on the bench beholden to an individual." I completely agree with that idea. Look up the campaign contributions to the two different candidates at the Texas Ethics Commission website <http://www.ethics.state.tx.us/php/cesearch.html>. You'll see that one candidate has contributions from many different sources, but the other candidate has a very large percentage of her contributions from just a few lawyers (mainly her boss and her former boss) and one of her boss's main clients, a local business that finds itself in frequent legal trouble. If someone were intending to choose a candidate based on which candidate is more beholden to an individual or smaller group of individuals, you wouldn't pick the same candidate the newspaper endorsed.