About the Texas Race for State Comptroller
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniThe Democratic candidate for State Comptroller of Texas, a person named Fred Head, is running a heated campaign against his Republican opponent, one Susan Combs. It seems Ms. Combs had, a decade ago, published a romance novel with Kismet, said book entitled A Perfect Match. It pleases Mr. Head to characterize this novel as "pornography," and to label his opponent a "pornographer." He also indulges in other name-calling, such as "two faced, hypocrite" (original punctuation), and identifies a copy of the cover of Ms. Combs book as "Republican Opponent Pornographic Book Writer Susan Combs."
Mr. Head is quite het up on the whole subject, and seems particularly offended that Ms. Combs novel features her "name at the top of every other page."
One wonders what planet Mr. Head hails from and whether they have novels there.
A sample of Mr. Head's rhetoric on this Important Issue:
Meet Fred Head’s Republican Opponent Pornographic Book writer Susan Combs.
Susan Combs is not who she says she is.
(S)usan Combs claims to be a person of high moral standards. Her record of writing, having published and selling a pornographic book clearly shows that Susan Combs is a two faced, hypocrite who was obviously more concerned with her literary career and seeing her name in print than the morals of the young People of Texas who are exposed to her 222 page book, A Perfect Match, which has her name at the top of every other page - - - a clear testament to Susan Combs’ insatiable ego and desire to see her name in print...........
and, for those with strong stomachs, here's the rest of it.
Mr. Head is quite het up on the whole subject, and seems particularly offended that Ms. Combs novel features her "name at the top of every other page."
One wonders what planet Mr. Head hails from and whether they have novels there.
A sample of Mr. Head's rhetoric on this Important Issue:
Meet Fred Head’s Republican Opponent Pornographic Book writer Susan Combs.
Susan Combs is not who she says she is.
(S)usan Combs claims to be a person of high moral standards. Her record of writing, having published and selling a pornographic book clearly shows that Susan Combs is a two faced, hypocrite who was obviously more concerned with her literary career and seeing her name in print than the morals of the young People of Texas who are exposed to her 222 page book, A Perfect Match, which has her name at the top of every other page - - - a clear testament to Susan Combs’ insatiable ego and desire to see her name in print...........
and, for those with strong stomachs, here's the rest of it.
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Oh, bother --
Date: 2006-10-11 05:14 pm (UTC)Which is why she's now Sec/State.
But at least she's intelligent enough to know something about publishing. I'm stunned this guy's staff didn't try to hold him back. (Perhaps no one on staff bothered to get info on this?)
I doubt she's gonna play with the results, a la the suspected Katherine Harris. Too many people watching here -- and the current comptroller is one of the governor candidates. She's a tough grandma and will call foul with the slightest provocation.
I guess this means that our gentle sex scenes in our ADULT level novels will come back to haunt us, too...and I've been to a counselor -- that's gonna be a black eye...
...Idiots...plural...I am so looking forward to it all being behind us, however it turns out.
Re: Oh, bother --
Date: 2006-10-11 05:46 pm (UTC)Plus, the photocopied "extraxts" from the novel on display (is that a copyright violation, by the way?) wouldn't make a nun blush. If that's the sort of writing that turns Mr. Head on, he needs to get out more.
And, honestly, this is the comptroller's race. You'd think the voters would be interested to learn which of the two of them can add better...
Re: Oh, bother --
Date: 2006-10-11 07:34 pm (UTC)At least Kerry Healey is attacking Deval Patrick on something real - unfortunately, it's something that shows he has a real grasp of the constitution and a modicum of personal integrity.
Re: Oh, bother --
Date: 2006-10-11 08:06 pm (UTC)I wish that old Pol' Granny was running for re-election. She grabbed those legislative idiots and rattled their canes. Would not sign off on a budget that wasn't balanced and explained where the funds were coming from.
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Date: 2006-10-11 05:44 pm (UTC)If they really cared to keep pr0n away from the eyes of the innocent, they wouldn't publicize it to the hilt so that pruriently-interested adolescents and others would easily find it and then make it so easy to find the "offensive bits".
What a crock. Not to mention, isn't it Mrs. Cheney who has a hot novel in her past? Of course, the VP's wife isn't running for higher office in Texas.
(goes to wash her mind out with soap)
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Date: 2006-10-11 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 10:27 pm (UTC)Or, as the lines from Bored of the Rings went (attributed, IIRC, to the Merry-and-Pippin variants) "Icky!" "Double-Icky!"
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Date: 2006-10-14 08:21 am (UTC)Fred Head (http://www.votefredhead.com/)
is clearly stating the facts.
Please debate how you can write a book of this nature and then took a public position of sex education (ABSENCE ONLY) bill. Can't have it both ways.
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Date: 2006-10-15 09:33 pm (UTC)Fred Head is not clearly stating the facts. He is, as far as I can tell from the public statements on his website, an incoherent hysteric who doesn't know the difference between a standard romance book and "pornography." If he has wished to state that Ms. Combs' position on birth control is inconsistent with her work as a writer, there was nothing on earth preventing him from crafting a sentence which conveyed that information, and posting it on his website instead of the ranting drivel he chose to post.
Also.
Those who post anonymously in this journal will do me the courtesy of signing your post(s). All unsigned posts will be deleted by the owner-operator -- that's me.
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Date: 2006-10-16 01:09 am (UTC)"Absence only"? The stupid, it burns us, precious.
As for the lovely calm reply: Go, Rolanni.
And btw... your books should come with a label stating "Do not start book near bedtime." I'm just sayin'.
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Date: 2006-10-16 01:22 pm (UTC)Well....I could speak to the editor about it, I guess, but then he'd want to know things like, "how 'near' is near?"
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-14 05:18 pm (UTC)I already stated my response to her/his debate request on my blog (http://michellespillowtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/im-not-one-for-talking-politics-but.html). BTW, someone (http://gabrielleluthy.blogspot.com/2006/10/right-said-fred.html) tracked where the comments were coming from, lol.
Michelle M Pillow, www.michellepillow.com -- so I'm not Anon :)
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Date: 2006-10-15 09:38 pm (UTC)The man doesn't have better things to do this close to the election than Google blogs?
Sheesh.
Has anyone told him that RWA is headquartered in Texas?
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Date: 2006-10-17 01:04 am (UTC)*snicker*