Annatopia attended a counter-SOTU party in Tarrant County where Chris Bell, Bob Gammage, Barbara Radnofsky, et al, were present and passes on this juicy bit of gossip:
one thing that i feel compelled to pass along is some news about the van os campaign. seems like some of the bigwigs in the unions haven’t been offering [...]

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Just a reminder to all candidates, electeds and the like:
Capitol Annex would just love to receive your press releases, juicy tidbits, etc. Please feel free to email them to me at any time. And, if it’s not a press release but something else, just remember that, as a former journalist, I love those leaks…and your [...]

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Thanks to Pink Dome to alerting us that GOP political hack Milton Riser is scheduled to be appointed Executive Director of the Texas Legislative Council Wednesday.
Until I saw this on PinkDome, I had heard NOTHING about this. But, leave it to Rep. Senfronia Thompson, one of the most gutsy (and poetic) members of the Texas [...]

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Yes, thank God. The State of the Union is finally over. ABC News’s people are doing the postmortem now.
Who else noticed that none other than Democrat-Turned-Republican ::wikipedia(”Ralph Hall”, “Ralph Hall”):: was standing at the door of the house to help escort POTUS into the House? I’m sure Bush is just trying to send a message [...]

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It’s a slow news day in Texas (at the moment, unless I’ve missed something), so here is another round of ‘From The Blogs’:
Daily Kos has an interesting piece on NSA survelliance.
MyDD has a post up on what Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack thinks Democrats should do/say about illegal wiretapping.
Pink Dome alerts us to a GOP candidate [...]

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Up late tonight, surfing the web, and found a few things for another installment of “From The Blogs”:
DemLog has a post up on Barbara Radnofsky’s “whirlwind” tour of Abiline.
Southpaw has a good one on the SBOE & text book selection.
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Pot-shots at Travis County DA Ronnie Earle, Nick Lampson, Nancy Pelosi and just about everyone else within reach seemed to be the hilight of Tom DeLay’s interview last night with Chris Matthews last night on MSNBC’s Hardball.
Here are some of the hilights:
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Hidalgo County’s Democratic Chairman says Jessica Reyes-Martinez may be able to get back on the ballot in Texas House District 39 following Friday’s decision by the Texas Supreme Court to allow two Court of Criminal Appeals candidates additional time to fix errors within their ballot applications.
HCDC Chairman Juan Maldonado, who ruled Reyes-Martinez (the estranged wife [...]

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The Corpus Christi Caller-Times has one of the better pieces I’ve seen in recent years concerning the debate on whether or not some counties need or should have constables.
In a fairly balanced article, the Caller-Times explores both sides of the issue,  but it seems to me some of the candidates they’ve quoted don’t quite understand [...]

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Many readers may have noticed a little problem if you tried to use the links on the bottom left of the page to add CapitolAnnex to your Bloglines or any other service. This is because the links were totally screwed up.
So, now, please feel free to utilize all of the lovely chicklets, etc., to get [...]

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