...and becomes the laughing stock of Texas politics. He has nary a dime in the bank and now we find out he needs an entire tech support team to run a simple webcast.
Dallas Morning News has the story. But the beginning is the best part:
There he was, trying to attract Texans' attention by holding a Webcast town hall meeting to answer voter questions about his U.S. Senate race.
Two minutes later, Democrat Rick Noriega's show turned to static. Lots of static. Then the camera tilted upside down. Then more static. The screen went to black. A few voters' questions could be heard, but Noriega's answers were often interrupted by audio and video glitches.
Priceless. But it appears that technical know how isn't the only thing lacking in the Noriega camp. It appears they're also losing their grip on reality. The Noriega camp has taken to calling their troubles "hiccups" and "growing pains", which is an understatement on par with calling Barack Obama "minimally experienced". In order for a campaign to experience "growing pains" there is a reasonable expectation that the campaign would need to be growing in the first place. I'd say the Noriega campaign is short on "growing" and heavy on the "pains".
Meanwhile, Noriega's campaign has gone through multiple staff shuffles and has shifted course at the last minute with routine events.
After Friday's botched town hall Web cast, the Noriega campaign followed up Monday with an abrupt cancellation of a Houston news conference where Noriega was to unveil his immigration proposal. Later, the campaign said it was canceled because Noriega had emergency dental surgery and was having problems speaking. The immigration plan was postponed until another day.
Just like in 2002, when Texas Dems thought they had nominated a "dream team" of statewide candidates, every last one of which lost, Noriega will fail and fail miserably.
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