Texans want clean air and clean government. With State Senator Mike Jackson, they don’t get either one.
Mike Jackson is a career politician who has been taking big money from big polluters long enough. This past legislative session, Toxic Mike once again took his marching orders from the polluter-lobby and authored the worst environmental bill of the session. His record from the past is just as bad. It’s time to un-elect Toxic Mike.
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Even during the worst of times, leaders can get together in a public setting, present their ideas, listen to other ideas, argue with one another - and advance the public debate that leads to an informed electorate making informed decisions at the ballot box.
That’s not happening for voters in the 11th Senate District of Texas. Senator Mike Jackson (who we affectionately call “Toxic Mike”) is more like “Missing in Action” Jackson” because he didn’t show up at a debate with his opponent, Joe Jaworski.
Perhaps Senator Jackson was AWOL because he was worried that Joe Jaworski would challenge him on his abysmal environmental record. Voters in the district should make sure that Jackson can’t slide on a greasy path to re-election by hiding out and hoping for McCain coattails.
Will Ike help Mike get re-elected?
The Houston Chronicle reports today that damage from Hurricane Ike may keep displaced residents from voting in November. We sure hope everyone gets to vote.
There is a case to be made that politics has no place in hurricane recovery. Yet politics infuses every aspect of recovery efforts. While not actively campaigning at this time, Senator Mike Jackson kept his own politics on display:
“You don’t take anything for granted. But the advantage, I think, was mine.”
For example, all Texans may pay higher insurance because the windstorm insurance program doesn’t have enough money to pay claims, and is declining to pay anything for storm surge damage. The intersection of politics and disaster recovery is right here with this issue, folks. What’s Senator Jackson going to do to help folks get the assistance they need? Is he going to continue to be beholden to the insurance lobbyists who keep his campaign flush with dollars or to the Texans hurt by the storm?
Smug comments (”the advantage was mine”) are the wrong kind of politics to use after a disaster. The right kind of politics would be for every elected official in the Ike-impacted areas to devote their full attention to bringing the greatest relief and most assistance to the hurricane victims and to the coastal ecosystem.
