The San Antonio Express-News reported that Lamar Smith probably would have been reelected in 2018. But they’re analysis was faulty. Romney took TX-21 with a healthy 59.8% win over Obama’s 37.9%. Trump seriously underperformed in 2016-- beating Hillary 52.5% to 42.5%. Of the 10 counties in the district Trump lost both the 3 biggies-- Bexar County (San Antonio) 54.5% to 41.0% and Travis County (Austin) 66.3% to 27.4%. Campaigning on an aggressive progressive platform Tom Wakely did better than any of Smith’s previous opponents, losing 202,967 (57%) to 129,765 (36.4%). Democrats didn’t even field a candidate in 2014 and the 2012 candidate lost 187,015 (60.5%) to 109,326 (35.4%). Even in the 2006 Democratic wave election, Smith beat Democrat John Courage 60.11% to 24.51%. This cycle he backed out primarily because he understood how electorally vulnerable he would have been.





Reporter Jasper Scherer wrote that TX-21 voters “endorsed the views of Smith, a skeptic of mainstream scientific views on climate change and a stalwart backer of Donald Trump’s agenda.” That’s laughable-- and Smith knew it, even if Scherer didn’t. There are 18 Republicans competing for the nomination while 4 Democrats are left slugging it out-- progressive grassroots activist Derrick Crowe, sleazy multimillionaire and corporate shill Joseph Kopser whose campaign is being run by money-hungry operative Joe Trippi, and two other candidates, former executive director of the Travis County Democratic Party Elliott McFadden and Mary Wilson, a lesbian and Baptist pastor who says she’s comfortable in her own skin. [Blanco County is a rural county and at the local Democratic Party meeting there last week, Kopser was roasted by locals for his position in favor of fracking. He fundamentally does not understand rural voters and their well-founded worries about their water supplies and roads damaged by fracking operations.]





ex”-Republican and a self-admitted Reagan-worshipper, says there aren’t enough of them in the district and he’s running as Republican-lite candidate, who appeals to the DC crowd but not to many TX-21 Democrats. He’s pulled some slimy shenanigans in the past that have made him toxic to Austin Democrats. He was behind the Uber Prop 1 battle which marked him as an untrustworthy dirt-bag to Texas progressives-- exactly try what the DCCC seems to love. Please tap on the ActBlue Take Back Texas thermometer on the right to help Derrick Crowe beat the Republican-prtending-to-be-a-Democrat in the primary. Crowe says his progressive agenda will turn out Democrats, independents and anti-Trump voters on Election Day. Kopser,m a so-called “”-Republican and a self-admitted Reagan-worshipper, says there aren’t enough of them in the district and he’s running as Republican-lite candidate, who appeals to the DC crowd but not to many TX-21 Democrats. He’s pulled some slimy shenanigans in the past that have made him toxic to Austin Democrats. He was behind the Uber Prop 1 battle which marked him as an untrustworthy dirt-bag to Texas progressives-- exactly try what the DCCC seems to love. Please tap on the ActBlue Take Back Texas thermometer on the right to help Derrick Crowe beat the Republican-prtending-to-be-a-Democrat in the primary.