TX-22: Candidate jolts battleground congressional race with ad blasting China for coronavirus

[RandySF]

As the new coronavirus disrupts lives worldwide, a Houston-area congressional candidate has shifted her focus to targeting the country where the outbreak began: China.

In a TV ad that started airing Thursday, Republican Kathaleen Wall embraces President Donald Trump's description of the virus as the "Chinese virus," saying the country "poisoned our people" and must pay for it. A narrator goes on to denounce the country as a "criminal enterprise masquerading as a sovereign nation."

Democrats swiftly condemned the ad as racist and particularly out of step with the highly diverse 22nd District, where Wall is in a runoff to be the Republican candidate for the seat of retiring U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land. National Democrats are targeting the seat.

"Irresponsible, race-baiting comments like these from Kathaleen Wall are unacceptable and dangerous to TX-22’s large Asian American and Pacific Islander population, who are intimately aware of the FBI warning about the recent surge of hate crimes against their community," Democratic nominee Sri Preston Kulkarni said in a statement.



https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/02/texas-congressional-candidate-kathaleen-wall-blames-china-coronavirus/

[Sucha NastyWoman]

1. She is a disgusting piece of trash

All of her campaign commercials are full of hate for someone

[captain queeg]

2. Are there any democratic candidates running on a blame platform?

It seems like this always comes from Republicans. Actually I guess Bernie uses blame of the democratic establishment. I just realized that, I don’t know of any others that rely heavily on blaming someone else. Dems certainly point trumps failures out, but doesn’t feel anything like the rethugs that are constantly spewing, making excuses

[marble falls]

3. She may come to regret it. Houston isn't Dallas or East Bumblefuck, Texas ...

course it ain't Austin, either.

[walkingman]

4. I hope my former home (Houston) will throw her out like the trash she is.

[BComplex]

5. Sugarland is as tea party as they get. They're probably going to eat this up.

Republicans need to be outlawed.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

7. Texas 22 isn't just Sugarland it goes all the way up to Cinco Ranch.

Lots of Indians, East Asians, and South Americans live there live there. In this during 2018 it was thought this district might turn blue. It wasn’t really even close, but it was closer than before.

[BComplex]

8. Texas is one of many very gerrymandered states. They would have made sure that

the district was heavily republican, even if they sprinkled a few of the rest of us in there.

[dalton99a]

6. Texas trash who married money:

https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/805ngg/kathleen_wall_gives_no_fucks/

patssle
86 points · 2 years ago · edited 2 years ago

There's hardly any information on this woman. What she has done with her life, who she's worked for, anything. She married in 1998 and lived in an apartment and he owned a multi-million dollar business. The house they moved into 6 years later is worth 1.5 million dollars today.

They married October 1998. However he had only filed for divorce in November of 1997 and officially divorced June of 1998. Married 4 months later. Gee....a very quick turnaround there.

TLDR she probably married into money.

They currently live in a 3.5 million dollar house that is registered anonymously under HCAD. I found it...suckers. Bought in 2014 from a guy who is from Iran. Big names have visited their house including John Culberson and Dan Patrick.

Some of his donations via the FEC: https://littlesis.org/person/246552-Holloway_Frost/references

EDIT: Oh more juicy family details. He was sued by an employee for sexual assault. The plaintiff ended the case with a take-nothing judgement.

Original petition (have to be logged in): http://www.hcdistrictclerk.com/edocs/public/ViewFilePage.aspx?Get=MSRATfa87gPWjyHEwPFmwzImtjs1cNIVHBQp6Th4oO56pedJa+sOVhSsA+Pf/v/bHEaTvJaJshJtDEOtoyiJ3My23zmbV4bMAJQJu5OKT5FbVsLIFuT+DvPJCHpfnBlJBmVUUwkSgJc=

[Gothmog]

9. TX-22 is one of America's most diverse districts and it's home to a robust Asian American community

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

10. Democrats have predictably condemned Wall's bigotry

Have any Republicans plucked up the courage to publicly oppose Wall's comments?