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Tag Archives: Texas Senate Race
Leppert Has Poor Fundraising Quarter, Releases Taxes
Tom Leppert only raised $387,000 from donors in Q4 plus threw in another half million of his own money. That’s down significantly from the $640,000 he raised from donors in Q3, which was down from the $750,000 he raised from … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, fundraising, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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Texas Senate Race Update for January 31, 2012
A testy exchange between Ted Cruz and Tom Leppert at last week’s Texas Republican Assembly Biennial Endorsing Convention Biennial Endorsing Convention on Leppert’s gay rights parade and ACORN baggage that I, Matt Dowling and whoever was behind the now-silent Race … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Elections, Guns, Media Watch, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Craig James, David Dewhurst, Elections, Glenn Addison, Guns, Jason Gibson, Paul Sadler, Second Amendment, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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Dewhurst, Cruz Release Tax Returns
I had both a wedding and a book release party to attend this weekend, so I haven’t had time until today to note that David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz have followed the lead of Craig James in releasing their tax … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Craig James, David Dewhurst, Elections, Republicans, tax returns, Ted Cruz, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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You Get a Tax Return! You Get a Tax Return! Everyone Gets a Tax Return!
Craig James got the ball rolling by promising to release his tax returns, an offer he immediately made good on: 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 For those of you whom don’t regard paging through an ex-football player’s tax returns an … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Craig James, David Dewhurst, Elections, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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Texas Senate Race Update for January 25, 2012
Time for another update. And since none of the Republicans liked the Keystone Pipeline decision, or Obama’s State of the Union address, I’m not going to list each individual reaction here. Ted Cruz endorsed by the national Tea Party Express. … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Jihad, Republicans, Texas
Tagged Addie D. Allen, Addie Dainell Allen, Ben Gambini, Craig James, Dallas Morning News, David Dewhurst, Lela Pittenger, Mark Davis, Michael Baselice, Robert T. Garrett, Stanley Garza, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Virgil Bierschwale, WBAP
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An Example Of What’s Wrong With Journalism These Days
This Houston Chronicle piece by Joe Holley is an example of why so many people are dissatisfied with the job the legacy media is doing of reporting events. In covering the American Jewish Committee/World Affairs Council of Houston senate candidate … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Charles Holcomb, David Dewhurst, Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Glenn Addison, Houston Chronicle, Joe Holley, Lela Pittenger, Libertarians, Media Watch, MSM, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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Cruz Raises $1.1 Million in Q4
The Cruz campaign announced that it raised $1.1 million in Q4. That’s slightly up from the $1.05 million he raised in Q3, but honestly, I find it a bit disappointing; I would expect him to have a bigger Q4 fundraising … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, David Dewhurst, Elections, fundraising, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race
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Tom Leppert Critic Jim Schutze on Problems During Leppert’s Term as Mayor
Before I interviewed Tom Leppert, I wanted to research several controversies that came up during his term as Mayor of Dallas. Unfortunately, because of The Dallas Morning News paywall (and, as you can read below, possible DMN involvement in some … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Elections, Republicans, Texas, Waste and Fraud
Tagged 2012 Election, Crime, Dallas, Dallas Morning News, fraud, Jim Schutze, John Wiley Price, Lynn Flint Shaw, Rufus Shaw, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert, waste, Willis Johnson
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Texas Senate Race Update for January 20, 2012
Still waiting on Q4 fundraising numbers from the candidates. In previous quarters they came out around the 15th of the month after the deadline, but maybe the deadline is longer for End-of-Year reports. Jason Embry notes that hey, this just … Continue reading
Ted Cruz (and Myself) Climb Aboard the Stop SOPA Bandwagon
I’m sure that if you do any web-browsing at all, you’ve noticed all the Stop SOPA Blackouts (or, in the case of Fark, a white out) in opposition to the ill-conceived, MPAA-backed SOPA IP “protection” bill that would open up … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Elections, Lamar Smith, Republicans, SOPA, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race
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