Cisneros Goes On Campaign Trail For Obama

Former San Antonio Mayor and HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros is on the campaign trail for Barack Obama, doing his best to bring Latinos who were firmly in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s camp into the Obama fold:

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Anti-Choice Group Running Ads In Dallas Market, Targeting Texas As Potential Swing State

Via PoliTex, the right-wing, anti-choice Family Research Council is running a new ad in Dallas, citing that Texas may be a
Pro-life group targeting Texas as “potential swing state” with new ad campaign:

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Texas Republicans Are Funding McCain

Remember, earlier this year, when we had all hoped that wealthy Texas Republicans would get pissed off about John McCain not being “conservative enough” and just sit on their wallets this election cycle?

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Chet Edwards For Vice President?

Nancy Pelosi seems to think so:

Here is a transcript of what she said:

“Anyone that Barack Obama wants is my choice for vice president,” Pelosi told the interviewer, who appeared to be from Newsweek. “But I do think in the list of considerations there should be somebody from the House of Representatives and Chet Edwards is a person that many of us think would be a good person to be in the mix.”

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The Phil Gramm Show: Obama Lets Loose On Former Texas Senator

Via Texans on the Potomac, the Phil Gramm Show continues, to our amusement, with Obama letting loose on Phil Gramm, the man who would be McCain’s Secretary of the Treasury:

“The Enron Loophole was created by McCain campaign co-chair Phil Gramm at the behest of Enron–just one example of the special interest politics that put the interests of Big Oil and speculators ahead of the interests of working people,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. “And the American people have seen the results: record corporate profits while Americans pay record prices at the pump.”

This comes after the Chron published this article, which of course is based off a Mother Jones article from almost a month ago.

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