For the better part of its duration, the Houston mayoral race has been fairly cordial and pretty much free of mudslinging. (I really wish there were more occasions on which it was appropriate to use the term "mudslinging." It just seems so regal.)
But as the race nears the money stretch, candidates have taken to berating each other and their subsequent policies and views pretty good. So much so, in fact, that Bill White, who has elected to not openly back any one candidate, has intervened.
I don't know. It's kind of immature, but I kind of like when political candidates get to slandering one another. I always imagine these late night meetings where party underlings are sitting around drafting outlandish ideas that they want to attach to the competing candidates so as to destroy their credibility. "I heard [name] used to date a Nazi back in college," they probably say.
But in the end, the race has played out about as well as anyone can hope. Now it's just a matter of seeing who wins. (I would like to point out that I called Peter Brown being elected way back in February, which pretty much proves my ability to see into the future.) So, who ya got?
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