Wise County, like a lot of other rural Texas counties, has a lot of challenges. There's the threat of the National Animal Identification System, the Trans Texas Corridor land grab, injection wells endangering the quality of ground water, and the unregulated thirst of the gas and oil industry sucking the water table dry. This means a unique opportunity and a desperate necessity for Wise County Democrats to reach out to their neighbors and unite to make government responsive to them.
Sadly, that is an opportunity that is being ignored in the place of the kind of political hardball that Texas Democrats have been playing intramurally instead of against the Republican opposition.
When contacted for this article, Wise County Democratic Chair Brenda Rankin made a special point of hoping that I as a blogger would be polite, and that she believes that it is important above all things for Democrats to do no harm to each other.
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