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Local GOP Leader Says Neugebauer Will Face Zero Backlash For Outlandish Behavior
The Republican County Chairman in Congressman Randy Neugebauer’s home county says that the Congressman, who shouted out the phrase “baby killer” during debate on the healthcare reform bill Sunday night, will face zero backlash from constituents in his congressional district.
TX HD 93: Loosing Republican Candidate Wants Revote
A failed Republican candidate for State Rep. Paula Hightower Pierson’s seat is considering a lawsuit to challenge his 111-vote loss to former Arlington City Councilwoman Barbara Nash in House District 93.
TX HD 4: Brown Faces Several Opponents And Massive Opposition From Asian American Community In Re-Election Bid
After a session of being marginalized after the defeat of House Speaker Tom Craddick and racial gaffes, State Rep. Betty Brown (R-Terrell) could be in the fight of her political life.
Not only does she have at least three announced primary opponents, but the Asian American political community is gearing up to commit resources to aide [...]
Trautman Will Make Second Try For Harris County Tax Office
Diane Trautman has formally announced that she will be a candidate for the post of Harris County Tax Assessor/Collector in the 2010 special election to fill the unexpired term of Paul Bettencourt, who resigned weeks after he defeated Trautman last fall amid mounting criticism over the way his office handled voter registrations in the 2008 [...]
Progressive States Network Looks At 81st Session
The Progressive States Network has a short analyisis of the 81st Session of the Texas Legislature which is worth reading.
We’ve printed it below the fold.
Bizarre “Hidden Words” On Hutchison Campaign Website
The Austin American-Statesman first reported this morning about some bizarre “hidden words” slapped into the source code of a campaign website belonging to U.S. Senator and gubernatorial candidate Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Although the Statesman told us about the amusing episode, they didn’t tell us about all of the entertaining phrases, which include the interestign question, “why [...]
Will The Special Session Become A Texas-Sized Christmas Tree?
With anticipation building about the impending Special Session of the Texas Legislature that Governor Rick Perry is set to call, lawmakers are asking Perry to add a lot of items to the call.
Perry, who has said he will call a short special session to deal with the reauthorization of various state agencies whose Sunset Review [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up For Monday, June 8, 2009
It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up.
Anticipating Tough Campaign, Perry Focuses On What He Knows: Immigration
What do you do when you are Texas longest-serving governor, running for re-election to a third term against a tough-as-nails opponent, and your entire administration has basically been a dismal failure when it comes to any meaningful issues of importance to everyday Texans?
Chubbed Into Submission: Why The Last Five Days Will Hurt Republicans And Help Democrats In 2010
The buzz around the corridors of the Capitol this week has been that Republicans are publicly salivating–and Democrats are privately anxious–over the implications the Great Chubbathon of 2009 over voter identification legislation will have on the 2010 election cycle.
House Republican Caucus Chair Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) has already called the Democratic minority “whiny kids;” House Speaker [...]
In Context Of Voter ID Debate, Bill White’s Republican Ties Very Troubling
In the Texas House of Representatives, it is essentially “D-Day” for voter identification legislation. The House has few days left to take up the bill, and Republicans remain intent on ramming the legislation through the Chamber. It is, as Glenn Smith notes, the civil rights battle of the era.
In this context, where Democrats stand on [...]
GOP Reportedly Trying To Make End Run Around Proof Of Citizenship For Driver Licenses Which Could Alter Voter ID Landscape
Republicans are reportedly working to resurrect a dead senate bill which would have required that proof of citizenship be presented in order to renew or obtain a driver’s license or state ID from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Sources tell Capitol Annex that Republicans will attempt to attach an amendment to legislation pending before the [...]
Betraying Democrats, Heflin Votes To Send Voter ID Measure To The Floor
[UPDATES THROUGHOUT: 3:02 p.m.]
Although Republicans still likely don’t have enough votes for a controversial voter identification measure to pass in the full House, one Democratic State Representative abandoned his party and core Democratic principles on Monday to help the measure get to the floor.
Six Years After Ardmore, A Lesson Waits To Be Learned
Six years ago today, Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives broke quorum and headed to Ardmore, Oklahoma to stop the passage of a partisan redistricting bill engineered by former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land).
House Panel Will Consider Voter ID Legislation Today
The House Elections Committee today will take up and consider Senate Bill 362, the controversial voter identification legislation that has threatened to paralyze the House since it passed out of the senate earlier this year.
Minors Who Engage In Consensual Sex Won’t Have To Register As Sex Offenders
The Texas House yesterday passed legislation that will allow judges to exempt teens and young adults who engage in consensual sex from being required to register as sex offenders.
TXDOT Sunset Review Bill Before House Today
The Texas House of Representatives will today consider the “Sunset” bill for the Texas Department of Transportation–an agency which, in the last decade, has become the most controversial and problem-plagued state agency that doesn’t handle criminal justice or prison matters.
The bill, HB 300, addresses a number of problems with TxDOT and then subjects the agency [...]
Climbing Voter ID Mountain Could “Rip Fabric” Of The Texas House
As House Elections Committee Chairman Todd Smith (R-Euless) used muntain climbing metaphors to describe the process of getting a voter identification bill to the floor of the Texas House, Democrats were pushing to have a full hearing for what is essentially the third version of the controversial legislation to emerge in the chamber this session.
Here [...]
Republicans Up To 71 Supporters Of Voter ID Legislation
Although Republicans are now boasting 71 signatories on their “statement of principles” concerning voter identification legislation, the GOP still appears at least two votes short of passage.
Bi-Partisan Redistricting Commission Bill Hits Senate Roadblock
An attempt by State Sen. Jeff Wentworth (R-San Antonio) to bring up his bill relating to a bi-partisan public redistricting commission while five opposing senators were absent hit a roadblock Friday.
When Wentworth tried to bring up SB 315, rightwing Republicans raised all manner of hell:
