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Cook ignores Open Meetings Act
Representative Byron Cook has a history of treating Texas open government laws as an optional annoyance. He was at it again this morning at his State Affairs Committee hearing. In 2012 Cook was caught...
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ObamaCare propaganda in the DMN
The Dallas Morning News carried ObamaCare propaganda from the Urban Institute to the delight of Texas Medical Association and the Texas Hospital Association. The media messenger for the two unions is...
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Freedomworks endorses Turner, Statesman shills for Straus
Yesterday national conservative group FreedomWorks endorsed Rep. Scott Turner for Speaker over incumbent Joe Straus. Tim Eaton writing for the Austin American-Statesman took the opportunity to...
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Burka tips Patrick to challenge Abbott in ‘18
Paul Burka thinks that Dan Patrick will challenge Greg Abbott for Governor in 2018, and that Abbott’s ongoing aggressive money raising is about a war chest for Dan Patrick. If Burka is right this...
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Updated: Legislators continuing abuse
In a show of defiance against the citizens of Texas, two lawmakers have issued a letter hinting that abusive influence by legislators at the University of Texas will continue. This latest aggression...
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Tribune donor disclosure inconsistencies
The Texas Tribune’s inconsistent practices around disclosing donors who benefit from stories they write is becoming more noticeable. Yesterday a disclosure inconsistency landed on the Austin political...
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TMA becoming liberal-only special interest
The Texas Medical Association is poised to accelerate its reputational decline today by endorsing a Democrat in a Senate election in Tarrant County. This according to Capitol Inside. TMA’s political...
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Krause law suit dismissed, encouraged
Judge David Evans of the 48th District Court in Tarrant County dismissed a law suit seeking to stop an unconstitutional rule recently passed by the Texas Racing Commission. The unconstitutional TRC...
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Straus dodges important royalties question
At the Tribfest over the weekend Joe Straus was asked if he stands to get royalties from “historical racing machines” (slot machines) if they begin operating at Texas racetracks. His answer, “My family...
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Lessons from Washington media
The national media are finally remembering why helping politicians shut out media is a bad idea even when you like their politics. In a USA Today article published last week Rem Rieder took the...
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Patrick has them worried
The Tribfest provided evidence the GOP establishment is very worried about Lt. Gov. Nominee Dan Patrick. While Patrick stands with the GOP platform against subsidizing college tuition for illegal...
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Pojman loses big in Senate District 28
In a performance that beat expectations, Charles Perry won the election for Robert Duncan’s old Senate seat. Texas Right to Life, the premier pro-life group in Texas, endorsed Charles Perry, along...
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Davis/Trib: peas in a pod
Last week the The Texas Tribune held its annual state subsidized festival and it featured a decidedly left of center cast of characters. Lawmakers featured on Tribfest panels scored an average 54% on...
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TMA’s influence waning
The Texas Medical Association has come under heavy scrutiny for its recent endorsement of a Democrat in a North Texas senate seat. Last week the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)...
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Legislative hostage-taking
During the 2013 legislative session, pro-life bill and other GOP platform items were held hostage to a single special interest issue: water. This session the House is set to deploy the same play. The...
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Combs sets up new PAC
Outgoing Comptroller Susan Combs has set up a PAC called Texans for Positive Economic Policy (TPEP). Comb’s fundraising vehicle, The Friends of Susan Combs PAC, put just over $300K into the...
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Political fairy tales
Mike Hailey of Capitol Inside wrote a piece expressing surprise that Dan Patrick is performing significantly better with minorities than Greg Abbott according to the latest poll. After all, the entire...
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Canadian marxists and Battleground TX
Canadian progressives are sending activists to America to learn from Barack Obama staffers, some of whom have Battleground Texas ties. The Broadbent Institute, a progressive outfit founded by a...
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Cruz backs Texas conservatives
Ted Cruz will fund-raise next week for some of the main characters in Texas conservative insurgency politics, including Brian Hughes, Matt Schaefer, and David Simpson. Hughes has been very involved...
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TMA losing grip in Texas
If you thought the Texas Medical Association was going to stop at endorsing a Democrat over Tea Party conservative Konni Burton, think again. Currently, the group is flailing on an issue that most...
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2014 Editorial Board General Election Endorsements
Early voting starts in just 12 days and editorial boards have begun to trickle out endorsements. This is where we’ll list and link those endorsements. We’ll also comment on the newspapers reporting...
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TWIA band back together again
This week the Houston Chronicle reported that Democrat trial lawyers Steve and Amber Mostyn are giving big to Texas House candidate Susan Criss. Criss and the Mostyns go way back. Mostyn is well...
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Texas Endorsement Intel
Early voting is right around the corner and editorial boards have begun to issue endorsements. We have a running list of 2014...
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Subsidized tuition for illegals
Dan Patrick is following the GOP platform in opposing subsidized college tuition for illegal aliens while figures such as Rick Perry and soon-to-be Land Commissioner George P. Bush support the illegal...
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BGTX/Davis set party back in TX
Would the Texas Democratic Party have been better off if Battleground Texas and Wendy Davis had never set out to “turn Texas blue”? To say the far left overplayed its hand in Texas is a serious...
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Parker tempts voters
Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are under attack in Texas. The attacks come from members of both political parties. This week the City of Houston under Mayor Parker demanded pastors turn over...
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Streaming: Rehydrating Texas
TPPF Rehydrating Texas: Regulatory Reform to Keep Water Flowing for Texans...
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Streaming: What is Marriage?
The stream will begin at 7:00 p.m. More details about the event and speaker can be...
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History of liberal endorsements
Wendy Davis and Battleground Texas are going to lose in November, according to Politico the question now is by how much. Still, liberal media outlets are doing their best to keep...
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Parent PAC General Election Endorsements
Early voting for Texas’ 2014 General Election starts today. The Texas Parent PAC a liberal political action committee has to date issued 25 endorsements. Practically speaking, most races have been...
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Disgraceful end to pub stunt guv run
Last week Davis, in show of extraordinarily bad taste, ran the now-notorious “wheelchair ad”. After the disastrous ad Texas political observers were universally wrong to assume she had hit bottom....
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Leach, others with big business on transpo
State Representative Jeff Leach and others are not only toeing the establishment line on transportation, they are putting their support on blast. In the teeth of a recent study that put...
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“No” is great politics
When the ruling class wants to spend money conservatives start hearing that we cannot be all about “no”, we have to be for something. This is wrong, and nothing more than an attempt to tilt the playing...
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Turner with conservatives on tuition subsidies
Speaker candidate Rep. Scott Turner has said he stands with the Texas GOP party platform on ending in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Recently, we wrote about question marks surrounding...
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TTARA holds ‘annual’ conference
The Texas Taxpayers and Research Association (TTARA) is a non-profit controlled in part by lobbyists. Last year TTARA produced reports that benefited special interests advancing infrastructure slush...
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Texans want conservatism
We have nothing but evidence that Texans simply don’t want liberalism or moderate liberalism. Any attempt to blame the failure of liberalism in Texas on Wendy Davis being a terrible candidate is an...
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Open double standard weakens media’s voice
Conservatives are learning how to ignore the media’s double standard more and more. The Washington DC media establishment has recently given us a nice example of it. “Governing” magazine, a liberal...
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Burton embraced by most GOP Senators
Senate District 10, formerly held by Wendy Davis, is the only competitive Senate election in the state. The district went to Romney in 2012 but Democrats have been spending big to keep it. Konni...
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Poll exposes ruling class immigration lies
In the Texas Tribune’s latest poll, an immigration question showed that equal numbers of Hispanics - 45% - believe undocumented immigrants living in Texas should be immediately...
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Ratliff’s failure exposes GOP reality
One-term State Representative Bennett Ratliff is a case study in why the ruling class has to impersonate conservatives to win. Ratliff was outspoken with his loyalties and policies as a State Rep., and...
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Bennett Ratliff Tweets
Here are some of Ratliff’s anti-conservative tweets: -Ratliff attacks the conservative consultant who beat him:https://twitter.com/BennettRatliff/status/497175360606597120 -Ratliff can’t get enough...
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Quit getting manipulated
The Tony Tinderholt election gives us the latest example of bogus insider polling that gets passed around Austin as ‘secret knowledge’, tamping down GOP expectations. The same “she’s closer than you...
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The game always teaches us
The pivot from champion to chump made by politicians after they’ve gotten what they need from voters – their vote – is always shocking. Though it happens consistently it isn’t something average Texans...
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TX Parent PAC endorsement is weak
It is ironic that one obstacle to parents getting to choose which school to send their kids to - a concept called ‘school vouchers’ – is a special interest group called “Texas Parent PAC”. They support...
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Capriglione falls
Giovanni Capriglione broke the hearts of the grassroots supporters he owes his political career to yesterday, coming out in support of a speaker he was elected to public office promising to oppose....
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The agenda > the votes
The idea of a “conservative” who votes for a liberal legislative agenda in the first and most important vote of the session is a fiction. There may be people who take a conservative position on the...
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