Category Archives: Texas

Texas 2012 Senate Race Update: Final Q1 Fundraising Reports

The FEC finally has fundraising totals for all the major declared candidates in the 2012 Texas Senate race. Ranked from most to least, they are: Tom Leppert: Raised $2,690,081 (including a $1,600,000 loan) and still has $2,592,219 on hand Ted … Continue reading →

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Texas 2012 Senate Race Update: Elizabeth Ames Jones Pulls In Paltry $122,185

FEC Reports for the Texas Senate Race continue to be posted for the fundraising period of January 1—March 31. (Indeed, they’re being posted so slowly that I wonder if a single arthritic temp is doing all the data entry.) The … Continue reading →

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Obama Doesn’t Know Jack. Or Texas.

An interview that Brad Watson of WFAA-TV in Dallas conducted with Obama has been getting a lot of attention. A lot of it has centered on Obama’s visible testiness at the questions, but I’d like to point out his baffling … Continue reading →

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Texas LinkSwarm for Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Texas leads all states in attracting major plant openings. Includes extensive quotes from Governor Rick Perry on why Texas does so well. By contrast, companies are streaming out of California. How’s that Blue State model working out for you, Golden … Continue reading →

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Texas 2012 Senate Race Updates for April 18

Texas Iconoclast examines Ricardo Sanchez’s chances. Paul Burka doesn’t think any Democrat has a chance: Patty Murray’s explanation for why she thinks Texas might be in play is “demographic change.” We have been hearing that line for many years now, … Continue reading →

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Texas 2012 Senate Race Roundup for April 17

Texas Democrats may have finally lured a high-profile candidate to the race: retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. The only problem? His last notable job was being commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Which was, as Democrats wanted … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for Thursday, April 14, 2011

Interview with Michael Totten on The Road to Fatima Gate. Preliminary redistricting proposals have been released. More about it from BurkaBlog here and here. There is talk of moving Texas’ Presidential primary to April. The blog is called Frontloading, which … Continue reading →

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Texas 2012 Senate Race Information Sources Round 2: Facebook Boogaloo

(I know, tired meme is tired. But I just like saying “Facebook Boogaloo.”) It being the second decade of the 21st century and all, it occurs to me that merely providing links to the individual candidates blogs is probably insufficient … Continue reading →

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Texas 2012 Senate Race Websites (and Tidbits)

Note: A more detailed and up-to-date list of Texas Senate Candidate Websites can be found here. For today’s 2012 Texas Senate Race coverage, I thought I would provide a handy list of all the candidate’s own websites (listed alphabetically). Websites … Continue reading →

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Texas Has An 80 MPH Speed Limit?

So the AP is reporting. This is news to me, sine the last time I drove from Austin to Dallas and Austin to Houston, I didn’t see any signs over 70 MPH. According to Wikipedia (the source of all vaguely … Continue reading →

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