If someone ever creates an award for the most lobby-rific new Texas Republican candidate in a political season, it needs to be called the Chart Westcott Award.
Chart Westcott, aka “Richie Rich”, is the 28 year-old son of privilege anointed by the Texas Republican establishment to replace Dan Branch, a lobby star in his own right now running for Attorney General.
Boy, someone has tried to gift wrap this seat for him.
First, it took him roughly 45 days to build up just shy of three quarters of a million dollars in his war chest. Chances are, those aren’t checks from the Lion’s Club.
Next, Westcott started the latest anti-conservative crony Republican PAC called “Conservative Values PAC”. The name is appropriate considering lobby moderates always get their votes by saying they are conservatives.
Still, using the word “values” in the PAC name earns CV-PAC the hypocrisy blue ribbon, since it’s values voters that the GOP’s tragically well-funded and disastrously incompetent establishment wants to jettison from the Reagan coalition.
In Conservative Values PAC’s “About” page, sure enough, there is no mention whatsoever of life or marriage or any other moral/cultural issue.
Evidently, this season the moderate messaging has changed from “we’re not a morality party” to “our morals are money”.
Their message is all bidness, and with a tone more “revenge of the fat cats” than libertarian.
The PAC supported Jason Villalba and Bennett Ratliff last cycle, both moderates with conservative challengers.
And in a truly funny bit of publicity, California resident LaVar Burton, of Star Trek and Reading Rainbow fame, shows up in Westcott’s finance report as a donor.
The only federal politician Burton has ever given to is Barack Obama. The enduring image of this primary may be the California actor who gives to Obama and Westcott.
You couldn’t make up stuff this good.
Ladies and gentlemen, the first biennial Chart Westcott Award goes to (drumroll, please)… Chart Westcott!