I’m in on a conference call with the lawyers for the Democratic plaintiffs suing TRMPAC. State district judge Joe Hart ruled today that TRMPAC owes the 5 plaintiffs $196,666.
Harvey Kronberg is leading the discussion, and *Wayne Slater* is in on the call, too. I’m star struck in my own dorky news-person way.
05.26.05 | Uncategorized | admin
The rumor was correct - the judge ruled against TRMPAC this morning:
State District Judge Joe Hart ruled Thursday that Texans for a Republican Majority violated state campaign law when it failed to disclose more than a half-million dollars in corporate contributions during the 2002 state legislative elections.
Bad news for DeLay!
update: Okay, no rally today. [...]
05.26.05 | Uncategorized | admin
This article from the DMN (bugmenot) suggests that the Legislature has passed a lot of little bills that affect us wee everyday folk. On their list is our favorite spanking bill and HB168, which lets alcohol be sold at festivals between 10am and noon. Hey, any way that we can get drunk earlier [...]
05.26.05 | Uncategorized | admin
I just read a rumor that a ruling will be made on TRMPAC today. Is this for reals? I can’t find any more about it. Maybe I dreamed it.
05.26.05 | Uncategorized | admin
The FEC is considering changing rules governing campaign contributions from sources like the Internet. The rules would make linking to campaign Web site a monetary contribution to said campaign. Making it a contribution puts blogging under tight regulation.
PDBlogger thinks this is an infringement of free speech and I have told the FEC so. They are [...]
05.25.05 | Uncategorized | admin
Got this e-mail this afternoon, and since I don’t have much else to post at his time, here you go. Enjoy!
“The office I work in has been working on the issue of “fashion” all session. We were a little taken back to know that someone else was carefully observing the wardrobes of our favorite [...]
05.25.05 | Uncategorized | admin
We can’t believe there won’t be a special session, as the education bill has yet to be finally decided on. We ask you now, do you think there will be a special session? If so, when? And where do you wish you could be instead?
05.25.05 | Uncategorized | admin
It’s not really a “quien es mas macho?” moment, although it may seem it. City governments are having some of their authority removed by this Legislature and aren’t too happy about it:
“We are under major assault right now,” said Brandon Aghamalian, Fort Worth’s director of governmental relations. “There’s some bad stuff passing.”
Among the bills [...]
05.25.05 | Uncategorized | admin
Conventional wisdom is now saying the centrist hold on the Senate will be short-lived. But not before they work out a compromise on Social Security.
This is one of those moments that Democrats manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
05.24.05 | Uncategorized | admin
Not to wander too off topic here, but there is something I could never quite get my head around. If all the intelligentsia are liberals, if all the reporters who follow politics are liberals, what does that make conservatives? I mean, if being smart and informed makes you a liberal, doesn’t that mean people who [...]
05.24.05 | Uncategorized | admin