Ethics, Schmethics
This weekend, Central Texas congressional candidate Larry Joe Doherty of Houston, whose campaign has been dogged by a series of run-ins with the truth, told the Harris County Tejano Democrats that a leading party stalwart in Washington had tried to talk his opponent into getting out of the race.
An interesting notion, given that his opponent, Austinite Dan Grant, recently swept all of the major endorsements.
This is not the first time that Doherty, the self-described “ethics lawyer,” has been exhibited behavior more in keeping with the “lawyer” part of that moniker than than the “ethics” part.
* Last month, when charged with harboring a Republican, Doherty attacked his critics, saying, “Anybody that naive doesn’t deserve to be allowed to have political commentary. They ought to go to school and study something.”
* Also last month, voters began complaining of a push poll in which callers gave them misinformation about Grant, including a persistent allegation spread by Doherty operatives that Grant lied about working for the John Kerry presidential campaign in 2006. Doherty denied any involvement with the push poll. Three weeks later, Travis County voters were still reporting the annoying push poll calls.
* The press checked into the allegation about the Kerry campaign claim and found that Grant had indeed worked for the Democrat, a fact underscored when his boss from the campaign, former U.S. Counterterrorism expert Rand Beers, endorsed him.
Doherty also ran into trouble with local Democrats last month when he publicly invited Republicans, during a meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee, to cross over and vote for him the Democratic primary.
Posted on February 3, 2008 – 8:53 pm by APR
One Response to “Ethics, Schmethics”
Larry Joe should move back to Brenham for the rest of the campaign. The more voters he meets, the more voters he alienates.
By Sam Bass on Feb 4, 2008