Well, give him points for originality.
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Farouk Shami was busy Sunday, shooting a new campaign TV commercial with a stunning campaign promise to Texas voters.
The commercials air in two weeks and showcase what amounts to a money back guarantee if he wins the Governor’s race.
“I’m hoping within the first two years I will create a minimum of 100,000 jobs or I will resign and I am thinking I will give the state $10 million,” Shami said. “What do you think of that?”
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Rice University and 11 News Political Expert Bob Stein had a different view.
“I think it will probably come off looking more like a gimmick than serious public policy,” he said.
That’s my initial impression as well. For one thing, you’ll need to come up with a metric that everyone will agree on if you want this to be a real, binding promise. Do part-time jobs count, or must they all be full-time? What if they’re mostly minimum-wage jobs? Whose job creation figures are accepted as the standard? Rick Perry likes to make claims about how many jobs have resulted from Texas Enterprise Fund grants, but no one who isn’t Rick Perry believes him. There are a lot of questions to be answered for this. And remember, there’s a pretty good chance that if Governor Shami were to be compelled to step down as a result of this promise he’d be handing the Governor’s office back to the Republicans, since the Lite Guv would succeed him. I’d give it a little more thought before I pushed this too hard if I were him.