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Rose Vela, the Texas district judge who had the extraordinary stupidity to buy email lists from spammers and spam people outside her state, deservedly lost in the primary election for Texas Supreme Court justice.
As I've said before, spammers belong in prison, not in a judge seat.

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I mentioned before that a person running for a seat in the Texas Supreme Court has taken to spam me, a California resident, with her stupid messages.
Her spam clearly shows that she is unqualified to be a judge, much less a judge on any Supreme Court.

This is the latest turd, received today:

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Dear [redacted],

<http://link.ixs1.net/s/[redacted]> <http://static.ixs1.net/site/5621/images/rose1.jpg> Rose Vela

On March 2, 1836, Texas took a stand against tyranny and oppression by adopting the Texas Declaration of Independence. The signers of this document knew the importance of constitutional rights, such as the right to bear arms and right of freedom of religion, and fought to ensure Texans for generations to come could share these fundamental liberties.

Tomorrow, on the 174th anniversary of Texas Independence Day, make sure you give thanks for your liberty by exercising your right to vote. I humbly ask for your vote for Texas Supreme Court – Place 9.

As your Texas Supreme Court justice, I will fight to protect the constitutional rights of all Texans. I will promote an independent judiciary, a strict-constructionist interpretation of the law, and will work to ensure the law works for the citizens of the great state of Texas.

As you remember Texas Independence Day, keep in mind the words of a true Texas hero, Davy Crockett: “Liberty and Independence – Forever!”

Best Regards,

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Pol. adv. paid for by the Rose Vela Campaign, in compliance with the voluntary limits of the Judicial Campaign Fairness Act. Joel Yowell, Treasurer

So, she "humbly asks for my vote"... My vote would be for her to get convicted of illegal spamming.

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Over the times, I have gotten a couple of political spam mailings. It seems that some Republican spammer consultant in Texas must have sold my email address to all these gullible Republicans who run for office there.
They don't even check if the people they are sending their spam to are even living in Texas...

Anyway, I got another one of these turds from some obviously unqualified "lady" who is running for Texas Supreme Court. As a judge, she should know better than to send out spam.
And the mere fact that she sends her spam to people who don't live in her state makes her unqualified to run for the position she is running for.
If she "learned early on the value of hard work", as she says in her spam, it is obvious she has forgotten it already. Sending out spam shows that she nowadays prefers the less than honest ways.

The spam in all its glory (tracking etc. redacted):

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Dear [redacted],

<http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?id=[redacted]>

Justice Rose Vela grew up in a military family listening to stories about Americans who gave their lives to defend our Constitution. Today, Americans are still losing their lives to protect a Constitution that promotes a judiciary that is independent, follows the law and that is not influenced by who judges know.

Today as never before, we need a strong conservative voice on the Texas Supreme Court – the kind of voice that leaders like Justice Rose Vela has already provided as a tough-on-crime district judge and as the first Republican ever elected to the 13th Court of Appeals in South Texas.

Justice Rose Vela learned early on the value of hard work, working her way through college, and becoming a successful private attorney, district judge and Appeals Court Justice. She didn’t depend on political appointments to get where she is today. Instead she has a proven track record of beating Democrats in November, knocking out a 15-year Democratic incumbent with 53 percent of the vote in one of the most Democratic Appeals Courts in the state.

That win made Rose the FIRST AND ONLY REPUBLICAN EVER ELECTED to the 13th Court of Appeals and she did it in a big way. Now we need to elect Justice Rose Vela to the Texas Supreme Court in Place 9. She doesn’t believe in activist judges legislating from the bench and she wants to make sure the law works for the people of Texas. As a district judge, Justice Vela handed down tough sentences including the death penalty and life in prison to convicted felons; she handled complex civil matters, and she had the privilege of helping create new families by presiding over adoptions in what she sees as one of the most important roles of the judiciary in promoting family life. As an appeals court judge she helped reduce the backlog of cases on the 13th Court of Appeals and is a firm believer that Texans should have a quick and fair resolution to both their criminal and civil cases.

Justice Rose Vela can provide the kind of no-nonsense conservative leadership that is needed on the Texas Supreme Court. But she can’t do it without your help.

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Pol. adv. paid for by the Rose Vela Campaign, in compliance with the voluntary limits of the Judicial Campaign Fairness Act. Joel Yowell, Treasurer

Update: I have since gotten two more spam emails from this clueless spammer.
She certainly isn't qualified to hold any public office, much less the office of a state Supreme Court judge.

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Some time ago, I wrote about spam I got from the National Federation of the Blind (here and here.)
Now I am getting spam from the US Red Cross.
What connects these spam runs is the company that actually sends out the spam. In both cases, a company called Convio does the actual mailing. In this case, the email address in question actually doesn't even exist. It is just handled by my catch-all email forwarding.
The Red Cross really should stop using such a slime-ball company.

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It is not just some Democrat from Massachusetts who sends spam to a California resident, Texas Republicans can do that as well...
For months, I have received political spam from Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and her supporters.
Now I have received another turd from Newt Gingrich, plugging for somebody who wants to run for Hutchison's Senate seat (paid for by Michael Williams, the idiot in question.)
Even if I would live in Texas (hint to these idiots: I am not), I would never vote for anybody who spams me.
Spammers belong in jail, not in Congress.

Here is the turd in all it's glory (link identifiers etc. redacted):

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Newt: "We need leaders like Michael Williams"

Dear Friend,

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Having been a part of the last effort to retake the congressional majority, I am convinced we don't have to wait 40 years this time to regain power. Democrats in Congress offer the same old, tired recipe of Democrats past -- big government hand-outs, bloated bureaucracy and big-time deficit spending.

The kind of change they offer is simply a return to the discarded practices of the pre-Reagan era.

Our problem is not that Americans are newly attracted to Democrat ideas, but that Republicans simply failed to live up to their own ideas.

Let me illustrate my point this way: while conservatives continue to embrace the conservative label, liberals have been re-marketing themselves as progressives. You can call a used car pre-owned all you want, but I will be just as worried about the engine going out.

We do not need to change our ideas, we need to live up to them. And when I talk about modernizing the Republican brand, I mean using tried and true Republicans principles in new ways to solve new problems.

The key to building a new Republican Majority is not simply branding Democrat policies as the destructive and discredited ideas of the past…but offering real alternatives that meet Americans where they are. And offering new leaders not bogged down by the old fights of the last decade.

We need conservatives willing to engage the Democrats on the field of ideas…willing to speak of a 21st Century conservatism…willing to stand and fight on principle. We need leaders like Michael Williams.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has already announced she will not run for the U.S. Senate again, and may resign her seat in just a few months to concentrate on her campaign for governor. As you can imagine, an open senate seat is a rare commodity, and people of both parties are kicking the proverbial tires to decide if they want to run.

But no candidate brings the energy, the proven conservative ideals, and the ability to take the liberals to task while rallying the grassroots of our party like Commissioner Michael Williams. Will you help send Michael Williams to the U.S. Senate with a contribution of $4,800, $2,400 or $1,000, $500, $250, $100 or $50 right now? <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?[redacted]>

As someone who has been elected statewide in Texas three times, Michael caught my eye by advocating the right energy policies for America's future. Unlike the liberals who want to bring fossil fuel exploration to a grinding halt and worsen the economic crisis, Michael wants to expand domestic exploration of both traditional fossil fuels as well as clean, renewable sources.

With regulatory authority over the oil and gas industry as Railroad Commissioner, Michael has strong credentials when it comes to both energy and the environment.

For too long, our party has ceded issues like the environment to the liberals. We are reaping the consequences of our own disengagement on the environment, education, urban renewal, and a whole host of issues liberals call their own.

Michael Williams would be a true game-changer in Washington. Not only is he an expert on carbon policy, he is an articulate spokesman for reforming education policy.

A former Assistant Secretary of Education under President G.H.W. Bush, Michael not only knows the importance of investing in technical subject areas like math and science, but he stood on the firing line as the lead official who opposed racial preferences in college admissions. Friends, for an African-American to stand up to the liberal advocacy groups on a combustible issue like racial preferences at the age of 37 shows rare courage.

But it doesn't stop there. As a member of the U.S. Department of Justice, Michael had a protective detail assigned to him after receiving a death threat for his prosecution of white supremacists in the South.

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Rare courage has come to define Michael Williams. And such courage warrants our support.

I write to you today to ask for your contribution to Michael's Senate campaign. He is not exploring this race, he is in without reservation. Will you contribute $4,800, $2,400 or $1,000, $500, $250, $100 or $50 to the Michael Williams Campaign for U.S. Senate today? <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?[redacted]>

Imagine the frustration of liberals in Congress debating energy policy with an energy expert, environmental policy with a knowledgeable conservationist, education policy with an education expert, and criminal justice with a courageous former prosecutor at the federal and local level.

They won't know what to do with someone who knows more about those issues than them, and who makes a conservative case for real reform.

As you know, I was a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. Conservative, Reaganesque principles still work in the 21st Century. But our party would be wise to refrain from rhetoric that sounds like we are tied to the past, and advocate a fresh conservatism that, while building on proven conservative principles, provides new ideas and new solutions for America's problems.

The Pelosi Congress is already doing its part to break trust with the American People, turning a stimulus bill into a pork-laden spending free-for-all. The Democrats seem to think that past Republican spending abuses gives them free license to triple the deficit and mortgage our children's future to Chinese banks.

This is fiscal insanity. The honeymoon will be over soon, and then we will be stuck with an amazing legacy of debt and wasteful spending for which this generation should be completely ashamed.

The first shot we can fire in response to the Democrats' spending abuse is to send Michael Williams to the United States Senate.

Will you help fund the first canon shot into the Democrats' firewall? Their fortress may look like it is made of concrete, but just past the outer layer there are large pockets of hot air. If we fight back with principled candidates like Michael Williams, their ivory towers will come crumbling down quickly.

So, what's it worth to you to prevent billion dollar daily interest payments on the debt? To prevent tax hikes on the order of $1 trillion? To elect a conservative who will fight for our values and help us take back the rhetorical turf on the environment, energy, education and the economy?

Is it worth $4,800, $2,400 or $1,000, $500, $250, $100 or $50 to you? <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?[redacted]>

Interested, but not sure familiar enough with Michael Williams? Take just ten minutes, and watch a portion of his speech to the Republican State Convention in Texas <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?[redacted]> , which I also attended. You will be sold - that's all it took for me.

Let's get to work, and bring substantive change to Washington, not the sound bite version that is ringing so hollow today. Let's elect Michael Williams to the U.S. Senate.

Your friend,

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Newt Gingrich

P.S. A conservative like Michael Williams comes along only so often. He has the rare courage of someone who has fought the tough fights at a young age. He can take back the Democrats' turf on issues like the environment, energy, education and the economy.

I support Michael Williams. Will you join me by contributing $4,800, $2,400 or $1,000, $500, $250, $100 or $50 to his campaign for U.S. Senate today? <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?[redacted]>

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