Mo Overstreet: Back in the Game

I've told Justice Overstreet I was going to vote for him in the general election for AG but he agree in his words it "spoke volumes" and was s so interesting to notc that the Texas Democratic Party was so unwilling to have a black man be their nominee for AG that in 1998 they dug Jim Mattox out of the dead to defeat him.

That was the same day Harris County Republicans gave African American young attorney Mike Fields (bet you never heard of him) 72 percent of the Republican Primary vote against an Anglo (I mean Jim Barkley Anglo) incumbent twice his age with three times the money to win Criminal Court 14.

Was it just me, or was Ron Kirk black? I thought he was, but I'm still checking. I remember him getting the Democratic Senate nomination in 2002 against, what do you know, a white Republican male. I was looking over the State Legislature, looking for a black Republican, but I guess I didn't look hard enough. All three blind elephants are white male (Dewey, cradDICK, and Tommy Boy), but one has tried to speaka da spanish (Adios, mofo). I'd have to say the closest thing to African American leadership for Republicans in this state is. . . Allan Keyes?

Let's not go that far out on a limb, Bill ... a wake up call is only a click to the TX Railroad Commission away. There's also the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court to take note of.

and Justice Dale Wainwright who in 2002 became the first elected first African American Supreme Court Justice in the history of the Republic of Texas. Thanks Greg.

So let's see today there are THREE state wide black elected officials across Texas. Throughout all its 130 some years of Demo history there was one, my friend Justice Morris Overstreet.