Think Twice Before You Publish

Recently I read an article entitled "I won’t publicize a YES vote of TxDOT Prop 1 on my campaign website, but I will tell you through email…" Which was an author, Yvonne Larsen criticizing a politician, Rick Miller, for what she essentially described as trying to sway people in favor of proposition one, which is a legislative agenda which is supposed to decrease congestion on large roads such as MOPAC and IH-35 by creating more roads with the pre-existing funding we have. More than likely Larsen's intended audience are political skeptics who are looking to criticize politicians for anything that they're able to, including a harmless email that was meant more for voters education rather than to persuade anybody. In addition to a poorly written and laid out argument, Larsen's credibility is questionable as well, seeing as she is a conservative, petroleum related sales executive, so not only could her argument be made for personal reasons, but The politician she argues against happens to be a republican, so she could be criticizing him due to her proclaimed party affiliations as well. All in all, I think if she was going to make an argument against Rick Miller, she could have made a more well thought out criticism.