Ned Holmes get's thrown under the bus

The dominoes are falling after the big smoking gun was discovered yesterday that Gene Locke's finance chair Ned Holms gave $20,000 to Steven Hotze's PAC. Today in an interview with KHOU's Lee McGuire Locke stated:

"I didn't know this flyer was going to come out," Locke said. "I had no knowledge of it prior to that.... I was not involved in any of those discussions. There was no coordination or cooperation between my campaign and that mailer at all. Any insinuation or suggestion that there was is simply false."

We know that Gene sought the endorsement of Hotze a while back. And we now know that he solicited Gene for money in turn for the endorsement. Allan Blakemore (Hotze's political consultant) said in a statement to McGuire that:

"absolutely we solicited the donations. We said we'd like to publicize our endorsement of Mr. Locke and we asked if they would like to help us. They did not review the flyer first," he said.

So now we have Blakemore stating that there was some level of communication between the two camps in regards to the endorsement/mailer. What else needs to be said?

Gene is either continuing to spin a yarn and misleading the public or he's lost control of his campaign. I refuse to believe that there was no communication or blessing from the powers that be inside Gene's camp. The guys running Gene's campaign are pros and pros don't allow this sort of thing to go down with knowing. If anything this is a prequel to what we might expect from a Gene Locke administration. It's time to come clean Gene.

For some more background and the Parker campaigns response check Lee's story out.