Representative Pete Gallego has sent a letter to Bill Ceverha requesting that he immediately resign his position on the Board of the Employees Retirement System. Representative Gallego makes his request after it was discovered that Mr. Ceverha has declared bankruptcy and was treasurer for a group now under indictment. You may have heard of it, [...]
11.28.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
What will do? Where will we turn? We’ve relied on Representative Denny every time we’ve been desperate for a punch line and now she’ll be no more. We’re crushed. Let’s take a look back at some of our favorite Mary Denny moments…
Mary gets married
Mary enjoys free speech
and the first blush of our love affair…
Mary [...]
11.28.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
A source tells The Associated Press that Congressman Randy Cunningham will plead guilty to tax violations. The California Republican has been under investigation regarding a real estate transaction in his home state. We’ve read about this story before. It sounds almost as unbelievably stupid as taking corporate money for statewide campaigns and funneling it through [...]
11.28.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
An Austin blogger was interviewed for a UT Journalism class about blogging and blogging in Austin. Here’s a couple of clips that made me laugh:
I think that the Austin blogosphere has magnified the inadequacy of our local newspaper, the Austin American Statesman. With the breadth and depth of coverage provided by Austin Blogs, it’s glaring [...]
11.28.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Bruce Todd, former mayor of our fair city, was seriously hurt in a fall from his bicycle yesterday. He is in critical condition; the E. R. doctor says that his bike helmet saved his life. Our thoughts are with him and his family.
AAS: Former mayor Todd remains in critical condition after cycling [...]
11.28.05 | Uncategorized | admin
According to CNN: BREAKING NEWS—AP: Part of marble facade on front of U.S. Supreme Court building collapses; no injuries reported.
Create your own headline using the collapse of the marble facade as a metaphor for (here are your choices): a.) the judiciary; b.) the war on terror, or; C.) the secularization of America
Go!
11.28.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Dick Cheney is not only the administration’s attack dog, behind-the-scenes puppetmaster and overall evil empire maker he’s apparently a hypnotist as well. Finally after we heard grumblings in Congress last week, Cheney came out swinging with an insistence that any criticism of the administration hurts our troops and hurts the war. Apparently, some people [...]
11.28.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Ok, the trytophan hangover has to be gone by now. We decided to see what was in the country’s newspapers to see what we’ve been missing out on or if there was anything other than news about Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey breaking up. First of all, there is always some news out there and [...]
11.26.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
For the next election cycle we’ll have the Republicans, the Democrats and the School Finance Party. The looming March primaries mean that nearly 20 current or former educators or school board members are running for seats in the Lege. What a pickle! A June deadline, March primaries and in some districts fierce competition for the [...]
11.25.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
We’ll be back on Friday, or hell…we may even drunk post on Thursday. If you’re lucky you’ll get to hear political discussions from a WASPy family holiday where instead of any real conversations we talk about the weather and the garden and drink lots of champagne. Ah…the holiday season is finally upon us.
Everybody be safe, [...]
11.23.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome