What makes James Talarico more electable? He has not elaborated on why he would be more electable than Jamine Crockett.
Maybe I just see things that are not there or maybe I see subtle racism that others may not see, but the latest deal with James Talarico, makes me think that the same people that kept telling us that Biden was too old are now telling us that it will take a white candidate, a religious white candidate to win a US Senate seat in Texas.
The idea that I am more electable, a theme pushed from the start of James Talarico’s campaign, may have been more believable before a Black man was elected President of the United States. But I turned a district around, I don’t think so. If that was the case, Lina Hidalgo did a much more remarkable thing here in Harris County. That year was a good year for Democrats, and credit should go to Beto O’Rourke, who campaigned better than any other Democrat in a very long time.
I did all of this as a State Representative, which is not exactly as Talarico makes it out to be.
Weeks out from the primary election, Texas Republicans are attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico for a new campaign ad touting his work in passing a statewide cap on out-of-pocket insulin copays, accusing the Austin lawmaker of overstating his role.
“When I picked up my first insulin prescription, it cost me $684. I couldn’t afford that — most Texans can’t either,” Talarico, who has Type I diabetes, says in the 30-second ad, which is running on TV statewide and in major media markets through election day on March 3. “So when I got to the Texas House, I took on Big Pharma and capped insulin at $25 a month.”
The ad drew backlash last week from Republicans including Texas GOP Chair Abraham George, who demanded Talarico “stop misleading Texas voters by falsely claiming credit for Republican-led legislation.” Several GOP elected officials piled on to amplify the attack.
“Let’s set the record straight about how the price of insulin was lowered for Texans,” state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham and chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, posted on social media. “The truth is that you did not author the bill that passed in 2021.”
In her post, Kolkhorst noted she was the author of Senate Bill 827, the 2021 legislation that set a $25 cap on out-of-pocket costs for a 30-day supply of insulin for those on state-regulated health plans. She also credited former Rep. Eddie Lucio III, D-Brownsville, and Rep. Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress and then-chair of the House Insurance Committee, for the bill’s passage in the lower chamber.
Here is what makes me think that White liberal People still have the mentality that they are smarter and they can get elected in a state like Texas.