Criss has been reversed for violating the press's First Amendment right to report the shenanigans going on in Criss' kangaroo court:
The Texas Constitution affirmatively grants the rights to freedom of speech and of the press: “Every person shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege . . . .” Tex. Const. art. I, §8. … Similarly, article I, section 8, provides that “no law shall ever be passed curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press.” Tex. Const. art. I, § 8. … Government-imposed secrecy denies the free flow of information and ideas not only to the press but also to the public. … The trial court restricted the discharged jurors’ right to speak to “the press, media, or others,” because it concluded that the additional, incremental publicity would cause imminent and irreparable harm to the judicial process by making it even more difficult to empanel a jury. … Further, the trial court’s conclusion that voir dire would be inconvenient does not satisfy the Davenport standard. … The trial court was not concerned about the media harassing the jurors. There exists no concern about protecting the secrecy of juror deliberations because the trial ended before the conclusion of the plaintiffs’ case, without any jury deliberations. We conclude that the gag order in this case is unconstitutional under article I, section 8 of the Texas Constitution.
Now it appears that Criss campaign mouthpiece Vince Liebowitz at CapitolAnnex makes the excellent point that Linda Yanez has also failed to show the proper respect for the media's blogger cousins:
Yes, there are political websites that do paid content. But they aren’t blogs, and Yanez should know better than to say that they are. It is nothing more than a not-so-thinly-veiled attempt to paint the Blogosphere as a bunch of paid political hacks.
Liebowitz knows what he's talking about because he often runs long word-for-word excerpts from Criss campaign press releases with Liebowitz's "bloguritation" being published at the same moment those press releases are released as paid campaign advertisements elsewhere. It is no wonder Liebowitz gets "inside" scoop from the Criss campaign.
Sounds like neither Criss nor Yanez loves the media as much as they should!
Vote to re-elect Phil Johnson to the Texas Supreme Court.
3 comments:
First and foremost, I have never run a Susan Criss or Linda Yanez press release "verbatim" as you say. And, I am not a mouthpiece for anyone's campaign. Finally, if you are going to write about my blog, spell it correctly: Capitol Annex, not "Capital Annex," as you noted. Also, my last name is "Leibowitz" not Liebowitz." With such mistakes you have zero credibility.
Sorry for the typos.
I got the impression that you run long word-for-word excerpts of Criss campaign press releases from the fact that the same material often appears simultaneously on the blog-for-hire Edinburg Politics with the disclaimer "Pol. Ad paid for by Susan Criss Campaign. Lloyd Criss, Treasurer, PO Box 16474, Galveston, TX 77552" while a long (over 800 word) word-for-word excerpt appears on CapitolAnnex without mention of the phrase "paid political ad" or disclosure of the campaign treasurer.
That, too, might reflect on someone's "zero credibility" factor, much like one's credibility might be undermined by running stories which misreport the law governing ballot signatures when those inaccurate stories are fed to you by one campaign for use against another.
But of course, those failings are nothing compared to a typo.
We disagree about Criss and her practice of fueling her campaign with cash from lawyers who have million-dollar cases in her court, but we agree about liberal Linda Yanez. Between you and I, let's focus on Yanez and agree to disagree about Criss.
Regarding Yanez,
I encourage readers to take a look at another post by Vince at Capital Annex. There is some interesting stuff on that site.
She looks to be abusing campaign funds by reimbursing herself with HUNDREDS of $$$ in traveling expenses, and eats out on the town a lot of the time on The Yanez Campaign tab. In other words, the people who donate their hard earned $ are paying for her unethical decisions while running for office.
The ethics report reveals over $11,000 worth of dining out on the town? WOW! Must be nice
Another thing...Isn't Edinburg the hometown of Yanez??? Edinburg Politics
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