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Are State Schools The Place For Children? »

The crisis facing Texas’ state schools for the disabled is perhaps the worst of the crisis facing the states’ health and human services agencies–and the least discussed. The Dallas Morning News takes another look at the crisis:
The number of children living in state schools for the disabled has grown by 80 percent in the last [...]

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CD 3: Johnson Gets A Primary Opponent »

Congressman Sam Johnson (R-Plano) has drawn a primary opponent in the form of Wayne Avellant, who is a self-proclaimed Sarbanes-Oxley Act International Control Compliance expert and one of those corporate seminar gurus. So, it would appear he’s well-moneyed and well-spoken.
It’s doubtful that Johnson has quite the Teflon-ness that Ralph Hall (R-Rockwall) possesses, but we suspect [...]

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Will Cornyn Donate Larry Craig’s Dirty Money? »

John Cornyn is among a number of U.S. Senators who took money from disgraced U.S. Senator Larry Craig’s “Alliance for the West” Political Action Committee. Though many of the senators who took money from Craig have already pledged to donate the money to charity or have already donated the funds to charity.
So, what about John [...]

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John Cornyn’s Shun To Lady Bird Johnson »

Matt over at Stop Cornyn has already given us some of the sorry details of Texas Senator John Cornyn’s shunning of Lady Bird Johnson’s funeral.
Now, Evan Smith over at Texas Monthly has gotten in on the act as well, after having mentioned it once already.
While Cornyn was gassing about how “bi-partisan” he is (ha ha!), [...]

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Paging Senator Cornyn To Reality Please, Senator Cornyn Please Return To To Reality, The People Of Texas Are Waiting For You In Customer Service »

I guess that John Cornyn hasn’t paid any attention to the hell his fellow Wonder Twin Kay Bailey Hutchison has caught for ponying up for DeLay’s legal defense fund. Via the Chron:
DeLay listed a contribution of $5,000 from a political action committee associated with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. Other $5,000 donors were Larry D. Johnson, [...]

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Cornyn Wants To Screw With Voting Rights Act »

It’s not surprising that the same man who didn’t like to hire people to staff the Texas AG’s office who weren’t members of the Federalist Society would pull something like this, but Texas Senator John Cornyn wants to screw with the Voting Rights Act.
AP reports that, as bilingual interpreters and foreign language ballots are becoming [...]

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