“He doesn’t understand the legislative process,” said Rep. Dawnna Dukes this afternoon when I asked why her opponent, Brian Thompson, was accusing her of not supporting CHIP. “I was a major co-sponsor of House Bill 109, which was the children’s health insurance bill and expanded the program to bring on an additional 133 thousand children,” she said.

Earnest 27 year old Brian Thompson says Dukes has compromised her Democratic policies to earn favor with House Speaker Tom Craddick. He put out a t.v. ad showing Craddick holding a white envelope while talking to her on the house floor. When I questioned Dukes about the mysterious contents of the mysterious envelope, she told me it was a rosary she had put in an envelope for friends of Craddick who were converting to Catholicism and didn’t know where to get a rosary. Uhm, they could try a church, a Christian store or Marshalls. But, that’s just my opinion.