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WMDs, Terrorism, Amer-kuh. Your comments equal political analysis. Go to it.
Representative Thompson's office sent us this letter, We happen to be sleeping when it came through, but here it is. So hopefully as we put this post up, it's all over the Internet and were just slow.
Milton Riser is a political operative. He has long and well known ties to the Craddick and Dewhurst political way of doing business. His appointment to the Lege council is the shot heard round Texas today. Why? Because the Lege Council is a traditionally 'non-partisan' position. It handles volumes of things from setting up the Legislators' computers to drafting the legislation on behalf of representatives. The fact that a partisan person is being put into this position is a foot on the neck of bi-partisanship in the state of Texas.
What can you do? What can we all do? Well we've got to work fast. The confirmations are tomorrow. You may call Craddick and Dewhurst in their office to voice your outrage that hiring political hacks and cronyism is still alive and well when Washington, D.C. is currently imploding over the same kind of shit.
We look to Senfronia as she speaks her mind. As one of the few that actually know the rules in the House, her voice is one we should look to for guidance.
Her full letter in the permalink. We'll be adding more to this post throughout the night. The confirmations set tomorrow put Texas in its very own Alito Confirmation situation.
By now, everybody's picking up on this story but it's not to late to add to the fire. Pick it up and run.
Call Tom Craddick's Offices: Capitol Office
Room CAP 2W.13
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768
(512) 463-1000
(512) 463-7722 Fax
or
District Office
500 West Texas, Ste 880
Midland, TX 79701
(432) 682-3000
(432) 684-4864 Fax
And I guess you have to be single and leggy to have Dewhursts number cause I lost it.
Here are the rest of the phone numbers:
The following House members sit on the committe:
Tom Craddick: (512) 463-1000, Ryan Guillen (512) 463-0416, Peggy Hamric (512) 463-0496, Linda Harper-Brown, (512) 463-0641, Lois Kolkhorst (512) 463-0600, Robert Talton (512) 463-0460, Corbin Van Arsdale (512) 463-0661
The following Senators sit on the committee:
John Carona (512) 463-0116, Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa (512) 463-0120, Kyle Janek (512) 463-0117, Frank L. Madla (512) 463-0119, Jane Nelson (512) 463-0112, Jeff Wentworth (512) 463-0125
Van Wilson, a Republican candidate from Lubbock has not only decided to steal the "W" logo, but now he's insulted every Volkswagen owner on the planet as well. Vote Republican, we're not clever at all!
As if his logo for his campaign weren't lame enough, here are some of his position bullets:
- Improving public schools
- Lowering property taxes and cutting wasteful spending
- Protecting private property rights
- Defending Second Amendment freedoms
- Voting for pro-life policies
- Cracking down on illegal immigration
- Fighting in Austin for our conservative values
God, could we get to our quota of douchebag Republicans already? He doesn't have a web site so don't bother trying to find it. In Lubbock they apparently still campaign by going around dust fields and standing on overturned number 2 washtubs. (Snap!) [viabloglubbock]
Members of the Austin Lesbian/Gay Political caucus voted to endorse 13 candidates for the primary elections on March 7, 2006.
US Congress -- District 10
Ted Ankrum
Governor
Bob Gammage
Attorney General
David Van Os
State Representative - District 47
Valinda Bolton
State Representative - District 48
Donna Howard
State Representative - District 49
Elliott Naishtat
Texas 3rd Court of Appeals
Diane Henson
299th State District Court
Charlie Baird
Travis County Commissioner - Precinct 2
Karen Sonleitner
Travis County Commissioner - Precinct 4
Margaret Gomez
Travis County Court at Law #2
Elena Diaz and Eric Shepperd
Travis County Justice of the Peace - Precinct 3
Susan Steeg
Nineteen candidates sought ALGPC endorsement by submitting a questionnaire and then appearing before Caucus members Monday (Jan. 30) evening. Candidates who received 60 percent of the vote of members present won endorsement. The Caucus voted to endorse both Eric Shepperd and Elena Diaz for Travis County Court at Law No. 2.
What? No Republicans?
As PD mentioned last night, QuorumReport is monkeyshining James Leiniger. Surprise, surprise, the asshole is throwing gobs of cash at the incumbents who rub him the wrong way. One thing that I'd like to note from QR's article...
"TRLCC (Leininger's PAC) also spent $15,000 with Keep Texas Strong. According to Williamson County Assumed Name records, Keep Texas Strong is a proprietorship owned by Milton Rister"
This is the same Milton Rister that came to Austin with Tom Craddick; who helped run the 76 in '96 and 8 in '98 campaigns; who worked with Rove to handpick certain legislators; who worked for TRMPAC, TLR, and both Dewhurst and Craddick.
Now Craddick, Perry and Dewhurst have agreed on a guy to head the vacant position of Legislative Council director. Their pick? Bingo, Milton Rister. This guy is actively campaigning RIGHT NOW to knock out several incumbents in the House. Does this not strike anyone as odd? An ultra-partisan running the Lege Council while snipering wayward House members? These Lege Council folks are the poor saps who work tirelessly (and unbiasedly) to punch up into legalese whatever wet dream a legislator can think of. With this guy at the helm, things look like they could take a fairly unbalanced swing.
Legislators on the TLC are scheduled to meet tommorrow to vote on him, maybe contact them or something and tell them no. These are the senators on the council: Senator John Carona, Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, Senator Kyle Janek, Senator Frank L. Madla, Senator Jane Nelson, and Senator Jeff Wentworth. These are the reps: Representative Ryan Guillen, Representative Peggy Hamric, Representative Linda Harper-Brown, Representative Lois Kolkhorst, Representative Robert Talton, and Representative Corbin Van Arsdale.
They just had a creepy old guy explaining how people enjoy bondage, with a huge banner headline saying "DOMINATRIX GETS OFF".
The story is also pretty weird, this dude died during a bondage session with this dominatrix lady so she had her boyfriend chop him up and dump the body. She ended up being acquitted. OK, back to talking about the State Of The Union.
Newly elected Virginia Governor, Timothy M. Kaine, will deliver the Democratic response to tonight's State of the Union. (Just a side note: The Dems strongest player is man elected three months ago.) He prepares us for what he'll say with a little bit of this:
"I think we have to be much more about an optimistic and positive message," Kaine said of his fellow Democrats. "I think sometimes we perfect the criticism without a positive, forward-looking message."Really? Gee, that sounds like rocket-science to us.
Here's the Democrats response to the Democrats response:
"Governor Kaine is a great story about the power of the Democrats message. Why he feels it is necessary to criticize the strong message that Democrats across this country are pushing is an unfair representation charged against our grassroots support. Besides, we did not care for his tie."
Again, thanks to our contacts we received the first draft of the speech. It's undergone a lot of changes to become the one you hear tonight. But here is our exclusive excerpts from the draft.
Myloyal subjectsfellow Americans (Pause, look into camera). Tonight America is stronger than ever. We continue toimpose our willfight terrorism around the globe and light the fires ofhatred and intolerancefreedom throughout the middle east. Make no doubt about it we aregetting our asses kicked by insurgentswinning the war and soon our troops will be home.Here at home
everything's fineour economy continues to grow at a rapid pace. Never before have more Americans agreed with me that we are on the right track to meet the demands of the coming year. (Invading Iran).The confirmation of Judge Alito is a great victory for Christians and we are working today to begin the arduous process of outlawing abortion in America and returning the sanctity of life to children before they are even conceived.
Aw, a 'higher' purpose. We here at Pinkdome have our own 'higher' purpose when it comes to spreading the word.
Newsweek reports the timeline of incompetency by the Administration in the Hurricane Katrina mess. It was 6:08 p.m. as Hurricane Katrina was making landfall that the Red Cross Disaster Operations Center first alerted the White House that New Orleans was flooding.
So there we were, glued to the TV, watching a city be obliterated and the White House was busy fundraising in California. Sweet.
Follow the money, they always say. QR does and found out that Leininger is apparently behind some of the Republican challenges to incumbents that were opposed to school vouchers. We wondered how first-time candidates with no political background were all of the sudden running $16,000 TV ad runs. Targets? Carter Casteel, Charlie Geren, Delwin Jones, Roy Blake and Tommy Merritt.
Again, we see 'no room for moderates' in Texas. Y'all better do something or there will only be one voice in Texas. The shrill sky is falling and you're all going to hell and no funding for public education voice.
The Democrats area amazingly impotent. For all the blow jobs Clinton got in office, the Senate may as well be enuchs. Concubines to the Bush Administration. We never got real involved in the whole Alito! No! thing, but to anyone that thinks Alito is not part of the agenda by the far right to stack the Court you are completely fooling yourself.
The amazing ability for the Democrats to become total bottoms in every fight that comes up is getting old. When we decided to like politics, it was not to watch one party beat the shit out of the other side every single time something came up. Could we collectively decide to stop voting for pussies?
Congressman Chet Edwards calls the proposed $11.9 billion cut in the student loan programs scandalous. Sadly, he things there is nothing we can do to stop it and tells us to consolidate our loans now because soon we'll get fucked over by the changes in the programs.
Eh, we've been getting fucked on our student loans for years. Click the permalink for the full story from Edwards.
*UPDATE* Edwards staff tells us the vote may happen on Wednesday. So, maybe you should give your folks in Washington a ring on the telephone. We're not really an 'activist' site so we don't have handy click here to call your congressman buttons or anything but I think you can just google it.
Yes, we were that bored today. We set up a MySpace profile page. Won't you be our friend?
Wonkette looks like they want to be a little more pink now that Ana Marie has flown the coop.
Uhm, just so they know...it's InThePinkTexas and li'l ol' us that have the trademark on 'pink'.
Dude, seriously? This website featuring the whack job that is Alan Keyes seriously disturbed us. Click to hear Terri Schiavo laughing? Are you fucking kidding me?
If you'd like to spend some time investigating the world of people that have completely lost touch with reality, by all means bookmark that site.
We blame the moderate Republicans. Truly the one political section of America left homeless. Spineless, they have allowed the party to become hijacked by whack jobs on a religious Crusade. How sad they must be.
Combined total amount of money raised in El Paso by Strayhorn, Kinky, Bell, and Gammage: $2683.08
Money raised by Rick Perry in El Paso: $156,724
There are always articles on how the 'Youth of America' are spoiled, whiny and have no work ethic. This happens every few years when some reporter doesn't get lucky with the the college kids anymore. We think the youth are changing America. The work ethic is there but it is different. It is fascinating to listen to a college senior already sure of the fact that they will not work their lives away for large corporations. This may be the first generation to have parents laid-off from job after job. (Remember the late 90's y'all? They sucked!)
The Statesman today has a refreshing piece on the Youth. The volunteer more than you do. Volunteerism is one of America's greatest assets and apparently if it weren't for the Youth there wouldn't be any. So, take a minute and re-think your positions on the whiny and apathetic youth....maybe it's you.
People pray for a lot of reasons. Some pray for forgiveness, for guidance and for serenity. Some use prayer as 'wishes' (Lord, please let me win the lottery), some prayers are fruitless (Lord, please don't let the cancer take her) and some prayers are just plain stupid (Lord, please stop AIDS).
The Bush Administration's dispersement of monies to reduce the transmission and spread of AIDS is an example of stupidity. A large portion of the funds go to religious-based groups that teach 'abstinence-only' education and do not provide condoms or teach safe-sex as a way to protect against the spread of AIDS.
No one denies that abstinence is the only way to stop the spread of STD's or the only way to not get pregnant. But science (oops, pesky facts again!) prove that condoms reduce the rate of transmission. This federal money spent with 'conditions' and based on a religious philosophy is dead wrong. (That wasn't meant to be a pun)
We'll close with our own fruitless prayer, "Lord, please guide the Administration in its noble efforts to fight the Global AIDS epidemic with all of the tools we have and not simple-minded and wrong-headed moral agendas. Too many people are dying when we have the power to do good instead of evil. That is Your true calling and we pray those in power will heed Your message. Amen."
Gale Norton, Bush's Secretary of the Interior, in the middle. Abramoff on the far right. The other three are some of Abramoff's Native-American clients (aka one of the groups he would eventually screw over). Very interesting.
Both pander to the lowest common demoninator by pretending to be 'just like you'. The 50 Most Loathesome People In America has Larry the Cable Guy at number 48 with a bullet.
48. Larry the Cable GuyCharges: The absolute nadir of the American South’s baffling cultural hegemony. A middle-class Nebraskan, raised in Palm Beach, whose parents sent him to private school, masquerading as an Appalachian mutant and making millions off the nine-toed cyclopes in his audience by calling his material “blue collar,� when it’s really just a celebration of proud ignorance. The latest in a long line of “entertainers� propagating the lie that real talent is elitist. The South has risen again— just long enough to grab the rest of the nation by the legs and pull it back down to its Lovecraftian depths. Isn’t even “bad funny.� Makes Jeff Foxworthy look like Chris Rock.
This gives us an idea of trying to come up with Loathesome Texans...but that would be way to easy.
We didn't think it was possible for a politician to actually 'learn' something about what the American people want. It's been a long time since we've seen any of them give a damn to be quite honest with you. That's why we're going to beg the media to follow up on this one. Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) said he did learn something from the Terry Schiavo circus. He learned...wait for it... "Well, I'll tell you what I learned from it, which is obvious. The American people don't want you involved in these decisions." (emphasis added, duh)
Get the fuck out! You're kidding me? Americans don't want the government involved in their personal family decisions? Holy Shit! We've hit the motherload here. There's a long list of things Americans do not want the government involved in. Not just 'end-of-life decisions' Senator. Americans do not want the government in their house at all. Quick, let's remember 'rugged individualism' and the 'government is not your daddy.' The government can screw up national defense, the deficit, domestic policy and hurrican relief but when the feds step across the threshold of my house and insert themselves in my personal life and decisions about my family is where I draw the line. This isn't just about pulling the plug on a family member, it's about everything from gay rights to abortion.
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[Gammage Photo Credit: AAS]
Is it just me?
Two headlines next to each other on the Statesman.com:
Texas leads nation in income gap
State may be forced to cut welfare rolls
Also...Texas leads in prison population. So yeah, fun stats & stories for nobody to see. OK, no more for today, I'm off to drink my weight in booze.
Janet Reno sings Aretha Franklin's "Respect" at a fundraiser. (Video) I think I just threw up a little bit.
Ok, Just woke up from a glorious nap. It seems like the whole country started talking about a filibuster while I was dozing on my sofa. Doomed, they say, Quixotic, they say, Weak, the say. WE SAY: Damned if you do, Damned if you don't. The Dems are either attacked for having no spine, taking no action and not standing up to fight against the Republican leadership or they are attacked for doing it. As a student of politics and political theatre, I hope for a filibuster. Call your senators and beg them to not vote for cloture. Let us live-blog the United States Senate full of cots and John Kerry reading "Moby Dick" into the microphone. We'd love it.
We also think that those people that keep demanding the Senate give Alito an 'Up or down vote' like the President asked is proof that we have absolutely no independent thinking and no analysis in the media that are so quick to parrot these Republican talking points.
An up or down vote is great if you don't already know the outcome. If you know the outcome then you are just being a bully by demanding it, you are stifling dissent and not allowing the minority to passionately express their views and you are refusing to compromise or negotiate. The exact opposite of what you are innocently claiming with your flippant, "Let them eat cake" for the confirmation of a Justice to the Supreme Court.
So, suck my dick if you think we don't want to see a filibuster and if you think we're pussies for having the back of those that support it. We're not supporters of lost causes, but we are supporters of people being brave enough to stand up for what they believe in, and for begging us to pay attention.
Well we take it back, not everybody is talking about filibusters. That blonde bitch Nancy Grace at CNN is talking about another missing white girl.
The Republican challengers to Terry Keel's quest for the Criminal Court of Appeals are back on the ballot. The Texas Supreme Court announced the Orders today. So far the Republican Party is Zero for three in trying to keep fellow Republicans off the ballot. They finally have a strategy that isn't working. Damn those activist judges...having to step in actually 'enforce' the law and shit!
The administration continues the 'propaganda' that has worked so well for the retarded American public for so long. Nope, nothing wrong with spying, just protecting national security...nothing to see here. Go about your business...OSAMA! 9/11!!
SNORE. How about that? We've got our version of this. Illegal, Unconstitutional, abuse of power, impeachment.
Now if we could only find ways to get the people to figure out that even if they love the president, this is a bad precedent and clearly should be investigated.
(How many words did I misspell in this post? I've got a wicked hangover today)
Before we see this Virginia headline in Texas:
Legislator apologizes after accidentally firing gun in his office
Retard. Although we do know several Texas legislators carry weapons into the Capitol as well. We sure hope they don't carry them on the days we go down there.
Love you, I swear! I will delete that post about you having relations with a donkey in Mexico if you please don't shoot me! (Ah, if we had a nickel for everytime we've begged for our lives using that very phrase.)
Oh, how we love a chartered jet. It's greatest advantage is not the skipping of security lines and the chic-factor. The greatest advantage, by far, is not having to deal with ordinary people like you. Just getting some of that average citizen on us takes days to get rid of. DeLay has the right idea by getting folks like Fox News and R.J. Reynolds to ferry him around in their private jets. After all, it's about 'pay to play' isn't it?
Someone sent us a copy of a letter former NYC Mayor Rudolph Guiliani is sending to Republicans asking for their support of Governor Perry. Now what does a mayor of NYC know about Texas anyway? Oh, he's got name recognition, that's it. Obviously Guiliani has at least seen the Perry TV ad campaign because that's what this letter recites to those that take the time to read it.
See the full letter: View image
I'm posting this with tomorrow's date because I'm getting drunk and do not plan on waking up early enough to post this in the morning for you.
I'll lead a filibuster against your activist judge-to-be. Or are we putting words in Kerry's mouth?
P. S. What's an anagram for Samuel Alito? Okay, the link is a tad old, but we just found it.
That's right! It's been a year since we popped our little drunk heads around the corner to see what's up with Texas and national politics. Bet you thought we'd never make it! We didn't either. It's hard to be this drunk all the time.
Love you, Love the blog, Love the ocassional ass grab. (Who doesn't?)
It's been a crazy day for us, so after a brief nap it's time to get up and go get shitfaced on expensive champagne. Spanking allowed in the comments section. (Or if you are lucky enough to see us in person spank away, baby!)
Earlier this week we got the press release that Bob Gammage was committed to fighting the sale of cell phone records to companies. Today we see in the Chron that AG Abbott is going to launch an investigation. Bob's not even governor yet and he's already pushing state action. Way to go Dem candidate.
Abbott's private cell phone number is 512.275.6227 in case you were wondering...and we gave it to you for free!
The Feds have discovered a tunnel from Mexico to California used to smuggle drugs. That sure does seem like a lot of work just to get suburban kids their dime bag.
Wow, can you believe that's a headline in the NY Times? The paper of record joins PinkDome in pleading for leadership. We're glad to have them on board. It's time for Alito to come before the full Senate. If anyone does not think he's tilting the Court, they're drunker than we usually are. [agonist]
Where's our Mr. Smith Goes To Washington DVD? We need to send that to somebody up there. Watch the blogs today because everybody's gonna be all over this.
Unfortunately, we'll be in meetings all day. (PD is extremely bitter to have to wear a suit and real shoes for the whole day today, so feel sorry for him).
Since we'll be in meetings, let's have a little 'open thread' or forum action.
March 1, 2006--The Texas Supreme Court will begin hearing the redistricing case. Oral arguments begin!
April 11?, 2006--The seventh legislative sessionon school finance begins.
Add your own and we'll make a calendar. Let's assume every Friday/Saturday and Thursday are reserved for Veuve Clicquot and maybe every third Friday a hooker or something special.
Y'all know I love me some craigslist. Missed connections and the casual encounters (so dirty!) but lately I've been following the conspiracy whackjobs that take over the Rants & Raves. I've been known to post a rant about that asshole that cut me off with a big W sticker on his Suburban (you know who you are) but the insanity that's going on this week is one I had to share with you.
You guys know those little white trails of exhaust crap left behind by airplanes? They are called contrails. Well there's a group of nutjob conspiracy theorists that are convinced they are 'chemtrails' and are being sprayed by the government for such things as population control and mind control. Go ahead, read it here.
So, next time y'all think I'm a conspiracy theorist remember these freakazoids. Also, we'll plug craigslist one more time for sane people to post something interesting for us to peruse on our breaks from drinking and having hot sex. Thanks!
Finally, the photos of Bush and Abramoff surface. And here we all thought they might be something scandalous.
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Ken Rodriguez at the SA Express-News talks shit about the Dems running for Uresti's seat and points out how that seat could swing to a Hispanic Republican. Scary.
Donna Howard and the ED of the Libertarian Party filed separate reports alleging that Ben Bentzin waited too long in filing his campaign contribution reports, essentially hiding out until election day to show that he had $250,000 more dollars in his coffers.
Bentzin spokesman Ted Delisi said tha they consulted with the Ethics Commission and that they are on the up & up.
Also, how long has Ted Delisi been with Bentzin's campaign? I guess that sheds a bit more light on the Governor's influence on the race. Add to that, QR is reporting that Susan Combs (who formerly represented the district), Perry media man David Weeks and former Republican Party director Wayne Hamilton are now involved. Jeesh, those are some pretty big training wheels for a guy with that much money in a Republican district. Oh, that's right, he vastly outspent his Democratic opponents and got spanked in a Republican district. Ah yes, now it's up to others to run the campaign. We'll see what happens in the second go-round.
Today is National Patriot Act Call-in Day. We've gotten emails from who knows how many groups asking us to do our part. Here's the ALA's page with call-in info. We're gonna feel pretty silly calling Hutchison and Cornyn, since they won't do diddly with it, but what the hell? Perhaps they will support the Senate's own version, since they are in the Senate. But we just never know with those two.
On the same note, we noticed something for the first time when we were at our local branch library the other day (looking in vain for this book). Standing at the catalog computer, we saw a note taped onto the counter warning that because of the Patriot Act, the government may keep tabs on what you are checking out from the library.
Big Brother is watching us, so remember that when you look at your online porn. You know who you are!
Chris Bell announced what is regarded as heresy by suggesting the state get rid of the TAKS testing as a measurement to promote schoolchildren from one grade to the next. The Statesmand (and Governor Perry's office) say this goes against twenty years of policy and blah blah blah.
We thought about it and as little as we know about education policy we did have a fuzzy memory about our own schooling. We took a test in maybe the fifth grade and then again in the twelfth grade. Other than that we had to pass our classes to get promoted. That's where we see Bell's logic.
If teacher's did not pass students just to get them out of the class then perhaps the GRADES of the students in the classes they are taking could determine whether or not they were ready to move to the next grade. Just a thought, but certainly an interesting headline-grabber from Bell.
**Watch in the comments as I defend my admittedly simplistic view of public education to the consternation of many.
Someone forwarded us a note to make sure we saw the piece on QR about HD48. The Republicans are pulling out all the stops in this district after the near death experience of Ben Bentzin. The runoff will be February 14. Love is in the air!
But, the disclaimer on the email was what we really loved.
** Warning ** This e-mail message, without warrant or warning, and despite US law as set forth in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, may be subject to monitoring by the United States National Security Agency
and/or the Department of Defense. Information contained in this message may be used against any senders or recipients, now or in the future, in a public trial or secret tribunal.
Or at least it should be. Here's the job description, "Spell Checker needed. Must be able to look at an elected official's name that has endorsed the campaign and be able to reproduce the spelling of that name on campaign material--EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS when written by the person whose name it is. College degree preferred, salary negotiable."
and, while we're at it....running on protecting CHIP? So, cutting the funding before you restore it after public outrage that was Madla working hard for his district?
Thanks for sending us the push card!
Wonkette, the site that has inspired a generation of political bloggers, has jumped the shark? Maybe. Maybe not. With Ana Marie Cox leaving for a book deal, the reigns are taken over by a 'health care specialist' and before that a homophobe. The 'voice' of Wonkette wasn't just funny jokes about ass-fucking, it was the voice of a good writer that engaged us in politics and made us laugh.
Now, you could say that as PD approaches its first year (tomorrow, and yes...you should buy me something) we look back at where we totally sucked. Sheepishly, we've been on our knees a lot lately is what it looks like. This blogging about politics is hard stuff, really. While we enjoy a good suck, a bad suck is a different story.
So, we'd ask our readers to give us tips. IM us when you see us online, and point us to hilarity in politics we're missing. Don't 'call us out' when the post is weak. Uhm, cause we already know that. If you have to ask, "Was it good for you?" it probably wasn't.
Apparently Perry left for Iraq on Sunday with Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal. Talk about a campaign stop, let's see Bell, Gammage or Strayhorn try and top that.
If you want to see him wax patriotic about it check out MSNBC at 12:30 or FOX News at 1:00.
El Paso Judge Bill Moody appeared yesterday with Bob Gammage to tout his own run for the Supreme Court. Gammage then took off to do the normal statewide tour thing, you know, what a conventional campaign would do. Bill Moody on the other hand, well he's going to spend the campaign season walking from El Paso to Beaumont, roughly 900 miles.
Moody will probably face Don Willet (who, I might add, is a fuckface) in the November elections. He won't accept a campaign conrtibution over $200 and won't campaign on Sundays. He's calling this the March for Justice. Bill, buddy, while I appreciate a good schtick, this, well this is dumb. Please just run a normal campaign. Please?
Star Locke (that so sounds like a porn star name to me) is running for the Republican nod in the March primary for Governor. If elected, he wants to do 3 things: tax abortion, tax sodas, and tax video games. The sodas and video games will get a 10% and 50% tax respectively, but abortions, well abortions will be taxed by $10,000. Story here.
While Democrats don't have much, at least they don't have any real fringe wack jobs running for Governor. Alvarado seemed like a nice guy with starry eyes, and Rashad Jafer simply wants to lower taxes and improve education and health care. Sensible sounding stuff. Larry Kilgore and Star Locke are freakin' crazy-ass nutjobs.
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