Dirty politics stink in Dallas, Texas, and "... truth just doesn’t have to be an option in going negative."

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Westcott’s politics have crossed the line in race for House District 108
By Rudolph Bush, May 19, 2014

Politics is a dirty business, we all know that. But at some point, dirty starts to stink. That’s the way Chart Westcott’s campaign against Morgan Meyer in the House District 108 has turned.

Some of the material that is landing in mailboxes in the park cities and northern Dallas district is just blatantly false.

The one reads: Politician Morgan Meyer: Drunk Driver.

Note: Meyer has never been convicted of drunk driving. He was arrested for it twice when he was a law student in Virginia in the late 1990s, yes. But the charges were dismissed and his record expunged. In one of the cases, he wasn’t even the person driving the car.

This should be old news by now. Meyer’s campaign has explained it plenty. Instead, it’s being distorted in the worst political way.

Now, Westcott is facing a misdemeanor charge in Virginia for releasing expunged records.

He’s also revealed that he actually has had a history of alcohol abuse, something that appears to have led to having his law license put in probationary status.

He told us in February that neither alcohol nor criminal problems had anything to do with his law license being put into probation.

When the Westcott campaign decided to go after Meyer based on the alcohol charges, they made a mistake. The charges came to nothing, and the campaign either knew or should have known that.

And they certainly should know that an arrest is a much different thing from a conviction.

We’re coming to a point in political campaigns where truth just doesn’t have to be an option in going negative.

Meyer and Westcott have had plenty of mud to sling at one another – most of it of the increasingly dull “you’re less conservative than me” variety.

And pointing out the other guy’s failings and shortcomings is fair play. Making stuff up isn’t.

Voters in the 108th ought to figure out the difference and put these bogus mailers where they belong – in the trash. And remember on Election Day how your trust was treated.
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