A white Texas Republican pretended to be black and won a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees. By carefully fooling his potential voters, he deposed a Democrat who had held the post for 24 years.
"I'd always said it was a long shot," he told Texas s K Houston TV channel. No, I didn t expect to win. But he chose to run nonetheless, alluding to how fed up he was with all the shenanigans at the Houston Community College System.
Wilson s deliberately misleading strategy secured a victory by a narrow 26 votes, with some believing that the ruse played a decisive role. He plastered his campaign leaflets with smiling African-American faces and the inscription: Please vote for our friend and neighbor Dave Wilson a tactic that his opponents labeled as disgusting.
Another tactic employed by Wilson was to employ another, fictional Wilson on his campaign literature: Endorsed by Ron Wilson. The trick was apparently meant to rein in the support of Houston s longtime African-American voters by acting on the assumption that some other prominent black candidate was backing him.
Austin did not take too kindly erail to Wilson s tricks and launched an aggressive return erail campaign, calling Wilson a right-wing hate monger in his own leaflets. Austin also said that Wilson was advocating chain gangs to clean highways.
Houston s community college system has come under recent scrutiny, with a reputation for shady under-the-table deals and political bribery, as well as spending money overseas. erail Rice University political scientist and KHOU analyst Bob Stein said that Wilson s success was due to more than simply his deception.
Probably with this in mind, Austin demanded a recount of the vote. But analysts do not see a real chance for him to win the seat back, predicting erail that Wilson will go on to serve his six years on the board.
This can happen in any paranoid Kleptocracy like the USA. But, he at least is honest about his deception to win election. Problem erail is, with Democrats + Republicans, deception continues after they are elected as well.
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