The Senate Finance Committee is meeting right now to consider HBs 1-5. Conservative anti-tax schlep Steven Hotze is going to testify against the largest tax increase in history. The funny part? QR already has his testimony, along with John Sharp’s rebuttal interspersed throughout it in italics. This is really funny, you [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
What wet-behind-the-ears freshman legislator wants to run for Governor in 2010? Your guesses in the comments.
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Hey y’all. We want to introduce you to a new contributor to the filth we serve up here at Pinkdome. SuperWow! is hopefully going to wow us with insight and double entendre and some policy stuff. Y’alll be nice when you see SuperWow!’s first post and cop a good feel while you’re at it. [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Watching TV news is always an excercise in stupidity, but for some reason last night the TV vomited stupidity all over my living room. From the Texas Legislature, KVUE reports: A group of Texas Democrats has proposed relief at the pump by temporarily suspending the state’s gas tax. Really? Wow, thanks! Twenty [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Two white teenage boys in Spring, Texas brutally beat and sodomized a 16 year-old hispanic boy at a house party. [CNN]
04.27.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
The quest to determine the hottest legislator in Texas is officially over. Go here, click on Party People, President’s Masked Ball and check out photo number 6.
04.27.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
OK so this is a little weird.
When you go to TLO to search for a bill, you have the option of searching by author. When you click on author you get the names of all the reps, the senators, and for some reason 5 other dudes: Robert Eckels, Ted Houghton, Joseph Krier, William Madden, [...]
04.27.06 | Uncategorized | admin
HB 110: Relating to limits on political contributions and direct campaign expenditures by individuals.
From QR we learn that a bipartisan group of legislators banded together today to put a $100,000 cap on contributions in 2 year cycles. A quote from Casteel:
She asked her party to pay as much attention to transparency in campaign donations [...]
04.27.06 | Uncategorized | admin
I’m really digging this whole outting of the smokers during the debate. Jackson called out Hodge, Menendez called out Hardcastle, Coleman called out himself, who else in that august body is a smoker?
04.27.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Rick Perry was talking to the Senate today about his tax plan, and he remarked “As ol’ Larry The Cable Guy says on a regular basis, it’s time to ‘get ‘er done.’”
Thank you, Mr. Governor, for making our state look even that much more bass-ackwards. Note to Rick, you don’t have to dumb down [...]
04.27.06 | Uncategorized | admin