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Listener: Pratt on Texas
Category: General
Date: 26 Feb 2008
Time: 13:23:42 -0700
Remote Name: 66.140.106.97
Idalou Mayor decries
Special Interests in District 83 race, Fails to disclose that he is paid by
Delwin Jones’ campaign
26 February 2008,
Copyright 2008, Pratt on Texas
Jack Bush, the mayor of Idalou, appears in state representative Delwin Jones'
latest radio advertisement claiming Jones’ opponent, Dr. Joe Hnatek of
Lubbock, is a pawn of special interests. Pratt on Texas has learned from
recent
campaign finance filings that Mr. Bush has been paid $2250.00 by the Jones’
campaign for “media production.”
As a paid-for-profit special interest himself, Mr. Bush asks in the radio
advertisement “Haven’t we surrendered enough to special interests…?”
Additionally he claims, without providing evidence, that Hnatek is a candidate
selected by down state lobbyist, or money interests.
According to the campaign finance filings filed yesterday, Jack Bush received
two payments from Delwin Jones totaling $2,250 for what is described as “media
production.” Yet in the radio advertisement Mr. Bush identifies
himself, not as the paid media production agent of the Jones’ campaign, but only
as the mayor of the Lubbock County city of Idalou.
The same message delivered by Bush in the radio advertisement also appears in a
post card, shown below, word-for-word but without attribution to Mr. Bush.
Additionally, Bush and the mailing use words claiming that Hnatek’s campaign is
the result of supporters outside of the region.
A review of the campaign finance filing of 25 February paints a very different
picture. The filing discloses that 77% of Jones funding is from outside of the
West Texas region and totals $35,056 of $45,381 raised. While Hnatek only had
42% of his funding from outside of the region and of that group’s funds, 84% of
the funds were raised from within the West Texas region.
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