Dallas Blog has a story up that mentions Ron Kirk’s recruitment of State Rep. Rafael Anchia to run for mayor of Dallas.
With that, DB puts up a link to Anchia’s MySpace profile.
My new mission in life is to find out what other legislators are on MySpace.
Why? Because you really get to learn a lot about [...]

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Rick Perry handing over the reigns of the Texas Education Agency to Rep. Kent Grusendorf (R-Arlington) would be like handing a box of matches to a convicted serial arsonist.
But, the Star-Telegram seems to indicate that’s what ‘reliable sources’ are saying.
My sources—and I’ve contaced several on this—say that’s not going to happen.
As I suspected, the Grusendorf [...]

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Does Tom DeLay reside in Virginia or was his “move” there a shell game to usurp Texas’ election laws and have the controversial congressman removed from the ballot?
It is that question—more specifically, whether there was “conclusive” evidence that DeLay moved to Virginia—that the three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans [...]

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It’s comments like this one that let us know just how smart, caring, kind, tolerant, well-rounded and articulate some of the people of President Bush’s hometown in Crawford are:
“I wish they’d go away and never come back,” Mr. Westerfield, a lifelong Crawford resident, said Friday while sitting on a bench outside a gas station on [...]

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Under Rick Perry’s watch, Texas leads the nation in several categories when it comes to having the most polluting power plants.
That, of course, should come as no surprise given that Perry and his Republican allies in the Legislature have done everything in their power to make sure that Texas’ biggest polluters just get a slap [...]

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Chris Bell’s Healthy Texas tour—during which he’s outlining his environmental platform which includes issues related to state parks—got some good press in East Texas this weekend from the Tyler Morning Telegraph, Longview News-Journal, the Marshall News-Messenger, and Palestine Herald-Press.
The Tyler and Palestine papers covered the Texas State Railroad leg of Bell’s tour, while the Longview [...]

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I’ve previously bemoaned the “rock star” treatment that independent candidates Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman have received from the state’s major daily newspapers.
Evidently, the editorial staffs of these papers have realized that they’re giving those two camps more coverage than Perry and Bell as well, as at least one of the state’s major dailies [...]

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I’ve complied a spreadsheet of the Texas Congressional Delegation’s performance on the minimum wage and estate tax legislation before them this weekend. It’s here (.xls, .html)
Of interest to note is that Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler) failed to vote on any of this legislation—including the estate tax bill which was one of the issues he campaigned [...]

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I just woke up from a very lengthy Sunday afternoon nap and did what most people probably do in similar situations: run to the computer and see who has been visiting the blog.
Well, actually that isn’t true. I went to the bathroom first.
Anyway, I noticed several visits as a result of stories on Yahoo!News and [...]

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Ellie and the puppies have an early appointment with the vet and I’ve got a ton of errands to run, so I’m taking today off from blogging.
So, for your political news fix today, check out the sidebar, under “Local & Uncontested,” and read the work of some of Texas’ other lefty bloggers. Come on back [...]

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