Reply #11: That link has a WEALTH of interesting information on who's beholden to who

[Czolgosz]

It is interesting to see which Valley court of appeals candidate is mainly supported by Republicans, which candidate from that court is supported by Dallas and San Antonio lawyers but no one from the Valley and almost no one from Corpus Christi.

My only point is that, within the local legal community's evaluation of the race which was the subject of the Caller Times's endorsement, one candidate has support from Watts (who South Texas Chisme seems obsessed with) plus John Bell, Donnell Abernathy & Kieschnick, Abe Moss, the Reddell Law Firm, Debra Rodriguez, Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer & Kern, Bargas and Rodriguez, Ruben Lerma, the CGT law Group, Rick Holstein, Rudy Garza, the Allison Law Firm, Leon & Barker, Jordan Hyden Womble & Culbreth, Cecil Starcher, the Edwards Law Firm, Porter Rogers Dahlman & Gordon, Huseman and Pletcher, Brunkenhoefer and Associates, McLallen Phillips & Langenfeld, Bonilla & Chapa, William Thau, Mark Woerner, Morris Gilbreath & Smith, Coover & Coover, Canales & Simonson, Randy Barrera, Huerta Law Firm, Armando Reyna, Dunn Weathered Coffey Rivera Kasperitis & Rodriguez, etc., etc., etc. That includes support from every segment of the legal community.

The other candidate is supported by her boss (Paul Kratzig & Associates -- she's the "& Associates") and only a small handful of lawyers WHO ALL MAINLY REPRESENT CITY GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES AGAINST CLAIMS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HURT, WRONGLY FIRED, DENIED MEDICAL BENEFITS, OR OTHERWISE MISTREATED. Almost all of her legal supporters have the exact smae narrow legal interest and she comes from that same narrow legal community. But where most of the lawyers who support her come from the exact same perspective, the legal community's support for her opponent is very, very broad and includes people in every area who represent every different view.

I will support whoever gets the nomination, but I think broad support as compared to support predominantly from only government claims denial lawyers will be important in the general election. And, more importantly, I suspect that the local newspaper feels the same way and endorsed her candidacy only to boost the Republican candidate's chances in November. I hope I'm wrong.