"Are you ready to lead?"
Texas Kaos blog diary by Glenn

I had the great honor of winning the Democratic nomination for the Texas Fourth Congressional District. The bigger story, however, is the growing bipartisan dissatisfaction with Ralph Hall. He received only 42,212 of 57,530 Republican votes. If you add those who voted against Ralph in both parties' primaries, almost twice as many voters - Republican and Democratic - want a new Congressman!

"new direction"
80,479 votes

"stay the course" with Hall
42,212 votes

The tide continued to move forward four weeks later as Democrats packed precinct and county conventions. Particularly, impressive were the crowded conventions that I attended in Grayson, Hunt, Rockwall and Collin Counties. If Democrat are going to win a state-wide races, we have to do better in these "Republican strongholds.

Here's the speech that I delivered in Collin County to over 3000 cheering Democrats. I asked a very simple question, "Are you ready to lead?' Texans shouted back, "Yes!!!"