Hall blasts Realtors’ phony poll
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The old adage, “the first casualty in politics is the truth,” is proving true in the City of Houston elections.
The Houston Association of Realtors owes Houston’s minority community, in fact all Houston voters, an apology for deceptionin a recent mayoral survey.
This PR firm creation is not worth the paper it is written on, and members of the Houston media who are reporting on the survey, should immediately read the fine print before they mislead their audiences.
Polls are scientific. The numbers aren’t just collected, they are analyzed. 62% of the survey recipients were white. That hasn’t been the makeup of Houston’s electorate for decades. Only 10% of the registered voters surveyed were Hispanic and 20% of those surveyed were African American. It’s a gross misrepresentation of the voter makeup in the city of Houston.
“The Hispanic community should be outraged at this slap in the face”, says Hall. Our campaign has received the endorsement of the most influential pastors in the Hispanic community, and they deserve an apology.
American Strategies, the group who conducted the poll, wants you to believe only 38% of voters are opposed to the bathroom ordinance. There isn’t a political consultant in town who believes those numbers.
“It is time for Houston voters to stand up and say enough of this bogus sales pitch trying to convince folks the election is over,” says Ben Hall. “Our internal polls show us Houstonians are responding, but we are not going to sit idly by while the special interests try to peddle this nonsense.”
“Houstonians are smart. They want a Mayor who will tell them the truth, who will protect them, and will stop wasting their money on silly backroom deals. I will be that Mayor.”
American Strategies should be forced to defend why they put out a survey that doesn’t even reflect the Houston electorate. What’s their agenda? How could their margin of error be 4.4% when they don’t know how to count Houston voters?
HOUSTON ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS’ POLL
