If you had your HCA political decoder ring.....

.....this blog post wouldn't be necessary.

What Democratic Candidate for Harris County Tax Assessor/Collector Diane Trautman said:

(Tax assessor debate centers on voter rolls", Chris Moran, ChronBlog Local Politics)

"I will take the politics out of the tax office"

What she actually meant:

"I will take the REPUBLICAN politics out of the tax office and replace them with DEMOCRATIC politics."

This is a political office, removing politics from it is about as worthless of a promise as anything made by Farouk Shami. In Farouk's defense however he had a really cool campaign song.

Trautman can't even say that.