Melissa Noriega on the Importance of Voting a Straight Democratic Ticket

[This is cross-posted from Pete Olson's favorite Democrat blogger website, Half Empty]

 After Chris Bell spoke at the Fort Bend Democrats’ Labor Day event, Susan’s Bubba announced that Melissa Noriega would the next speaker. I missed recording part of that but I wanted to include one thing that he did say. It was at an event very much like the Labor Day event, only in a fancier setting, that the Fort Bend Democrats first publicly urged Rick Noriega to run for US Senate to get rid of Bush’s rubber stamp senator, John Cornyn.

I know. I was there on that mid-February evening. I heard it.

But when Melissa spoke it was not as Rick’s wife, and it was not a stump speech for Rick Noriega (well, it was in a way, but only by default), it was a speech to urge everyone to send a message to the country.

To vote a straight Democratic ticket.

#776644">Like Susan Criss, this is in order to make sure that we elect Democratic judges, but really it is also to send a message. A message #0000ad">like the one we sent in 2006 when the Fort Bend County Elections office counted more straight ticket Democratic votes than straight ticket Republican votes.

Here’s Melissa (and sorry about the camera jiggling in the beginning. It happens. I own the cheapest tripod known to man).