John Cornyn's (UGH-TX) competition, Rick Noriega, goes dark for 4,000 milestone...

[babylonsister]

http://www.ricknoriega.com/

Rick Noriega for Texas

Yesterday we reached the terrible milestone of 4,000 Americans dead in the misguided war in Iraq.

395 Texans and their families have paid the ultimate sacrifice and I ask you to take the time you would have spent on my website today offering them your prayers and your thanks for the heroic service of their loved ones.

We must also offer the country a new direction so that more of our young men and women are not lost.

I have suspended my campaign website for 24 hours to call attention to the failed policies that led us into war and kept us there with no plan for getting out.

Click here to see the names of all who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

God Bless Texas and God Bless America.
Rick Noriega

http://www.ricknoriega.com/about/

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. Wow, what a class act.

I will be donating whatever I can as soon as the suspension is up.

[babylonsister]

2. I thought this was grand; he's the real deal. From the wiki link:

Answering the Call in the Armed Forces:

Rick felt compelled to answer the call and serve in the U.S. Army in the wake of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. He was an airborne school and service commander of the 143rd Infantry Detachment (Long-Range Surveillance), an aide to Brigadier General David Heuer, and aide-de-camp to General Samuel Turk, Adjutant General of the Texas Army National Guard.

But Rick's service in the Army did not end there. He became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard, and served as deputy garrison commander of the KMTC training facility in Kabul, Afghanistan after 9/11. Rick was deployed in Afghanistan for a total of 14 months until August 2005, and he was also the Laredo Border Sector Commander in Operation Jump Start during the summer of 2006.

Upon his return from Afghanistan, Rick was tapped by Mayor Bill White as Incident Commander of Houston's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts at the George R. Brown Convention Center. His leadership with the military, as well as his record in community service, was crucial as the GRB was transformed into a virtual city that cared for nearly 30,000 evacuees, and was then dismantled in the course of less than a month. At the center, Rick coordinated medical, employment, travel, housing and food services for more than 2,000 evacuees living on-site.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. If he doesn't win it'll be because they stole it. nt