Miscellany...
Category: Local...
Posted Friday, February 28, 2003 at 09:43 AM [GMT-6]

Watch for an interesting announcement: the Midland Development Corporation is turning to an Odessa firm for its advertising campaign.

In this edition: Congressional race...

I see that Carroll Thomas is the first announced candidate to withdraw from the race for Larry Combest's Congressional seat, a victim of too many runners and not enough money.

This did not surprise me; in fact, I remarked to my wife a couple of weeks ago that I thought Carroll would soon announce his withdrawal. (I also predicted that he would throw his support behind Mike Conaway at the same time, which he did not do. Still, I think it's coming.) However, I resisted the urge to make that prediction public, since Carroll was a client and I don't discuss my active clients in that way (or, at least, not in an individually-identifiable fashion). However, the fact that we rushed to put up a placeholder home page for the campaign and then never touched it seemed to be a pretty good barometer of the level of activity. I suppose if you want to capture a piece of west Texas political trivia, you can get a screenshot of www.thomas-for-congress.com. It's not my best work, but, like I said, they were in a hurry.

I wish Carroll all the best; he's one of the Good Guys. And I do hope he throws his support behind Conaway. (This was always an interesting matchup in my mind, as both of these gentlemen are long-time active and well-respected members of the same Midland church.)