He opposes what?

Via Eye on Williamson, I see that the Statesman endorsed all Republicans in the non-gubernatorial non-judicial statewide races. The one that is boggling me is this one:

Agriculture commissioner

This race pits two men who live within 30 miles of each other in deep East Texas, Republican state Sen. Todd Staples, 43, of Palestine and Democrat Hank Gilbert, 46, a Smith County rancher and former agriculture teacher. Staples is a two-term state senator making his first run for statewide office.

Interestingly, his campaign opposes the Republican-supported Trans Texas Corridor, at least in its current form. Thousands of Texans with roots in agriculture oppose the superhighway that bisects the state because it requires so much private property and takes so many acres out of crop production.

Wait a minute. Todd Staples' campaign opposes the Trans-Texas Corridor, in any form? You're telling me that the guy who wrote this is trying to claim that he somehow opposes the TTC? This is like saying that Donald Rumsfeld opposes the Iraq War in its current form.

Opposing the TTC means you don't want to see it built because you think it's bad policy. It does not mean you want to see it tweaked around the edges. Todd Staples is an enabler of the TTC. To call it anything else - to let him call it anything else - is just plain dishonest. How can they not even acknowledge the disconnect?

And this is the guy the Statesman endorsed for Ag Commissioner. Unbelievable. "Liberal media", my rear end.

Posted by Charles Kuffner on October 16, 2006 to Election 2006 | TrackBack