So sad to hear about the passing of Joe Slade White. Several of us worked with Joe on re-election campaigns for @CEdwardsTX. Joe helped us survive many tough campaigns.

A brief remembrance 1/ https://tinyurl.com/3det9jky 

In 2004, Joe created this moving ad that defined Chet’s race against Arlene Wohlgemuth early, and crystallized what was at stake in that election for kids who benefited from the CHIP program

The impact of this issue and ad created positive change and reverberated across the national political landscape for several years. See this Post story in 2007:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/09/house_set_for_chip_showdown_ca.html

In 2004, Chet won by fewer than 10K votes in a R+17 district drawn by Tom DeLay to defeat him. Chet stayed in Congress 6 more yrs delivering for Veterans & his Central TX constituents.

Thank you, Joe. Godspeed.

cc: @ChrisGTurner @CDChwastyk @LindseyForUS

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