Serial Butt-Biting GOP Operative Sinks Teeth Into Texas Race

[sonias]

Mother Jones 7/13/10
Serial Butt-Biting GOP Operative Sinks Teeth Into Texas Race

Meet Charles Hurth III. The Missouri lawyer has a long history of setting up under-the-radar groups to help Republican operatives game elections. But the most sordid thing about Hurth's past is not his political scheming. He's also what you might call a serial butt-biter, with a well-publicized track record of sinking his teeth into the rumps of college coeds. He recently struck again in Texas—not by biting derrieres, but by spearheading an apparent GOP dirty trick to derail a Democrat's gubernatorial bid.

Last month, Hurth and two other GOP operatives—one a former top aide to Texas Gov. Rick Perry—were implicated in a scheme to bankroll a petition drive to put the Green Party on the ballot. It is an apparent ploy to siphon votes away from Perry's Democratic challenger, former Houston Mayor Bill White. He's an appealing target: Tied with Perry in the latest poll, White's the strongest gubernatorial contender that Texas Democrats have seen in years.

But Hurth's first claim to fame was being sued in 1987 for approaching a fellow law student in a bar and biting her on the buttocks so hard that she required medical attention. During the trial, Hurth admitted that he'd used the same toothy overture to approach two other women at fraternity parties—and he said that his latest victim should have taken the gesture as a compliment. The jurors didn't buy it, and Hurth was successfully sued for $27,500. Since then, he has dedicated himself to being a persistent pain in the butt for Democrats, setting up shop in a tiny Missouri town to create a clearinghouse for Republican electoral schemes. The latest came this spring, when Hurth and his allies succeeded in getting the Greens on the 2010 ballot.

This creep Charles Hurth III is a lower level human than even Karl Rove and that's really lowering the bar. :puke:

Hurth is behind the Take Initiative America group that "helped" the Green Party of Texas out of the goodness of their hearts. :sarcasm:

[MagickMuffin]

1. This was posted in GD, the poster decided to Texas Bash while they had the opportunity

Hey Sonia, I really didn't see the need to Bash Texas with their thread, but hey, that seems to be the norm on DU, even thought it's against the rules.

Here's the title of the thread

"Serial butt-biters and the governor's race......Only in Texas"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8743411


I find it interesting that the butt biter is an outsider trying to influence our elections. It's also interesting that the original article doesn't even Bash Texas, just this Texas Basher on DU.

Ah well, another day, another way to Texas Bash :shrug:


:hi:

[NoPasaran]

2. Every GD thread about Texas comes with a side of bash

Meanwhile, no one ever asks if we can sell Louisiana back to France. Hell, we could give it back and tell 'em it's a Bastille Day present.

[sonias]

3. The "only in Texas" part is not true of course

This serial criminal operates in many states - and he's certainly not a Texan!

:hi: Magic!

[freebrew]

4. I didn't see any texas bashing.

Where?