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Parent PAC primary results overhyped
There is a lot of hot air filling the Parent PAC balloon right now in Austin, and it isn’t necessarily Parent PAC’s fault. In a panel discussion last week moderated by Evan Smith, journalists rehearsed...
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The coming education reform fight
There are two kinds of education advocates in Texas – education reform advocates and anti-reform education advocates. Both groups will be active in 2013. Anti-reform advocacy group Raise Your Hand...
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High stakes
In a recent interview State Rep. Mike Villareal noted what is already common knowledge about the coming 83rd Legislature – that a Straus-led House will be the moderate obstacle to an otherwise...
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Tx libs suddenly love football
It’s a good time to be a conservative in Texas. For the first time in any Texan’s lifetime, liberals are concerned with the care and feeding of high school football in Texas. Oh, the hilarity. The San...
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An enemy within
During the last speaker’s race there was one political play we at AgendaWise thought would be the most difficult for conservatives to deal with. Not sure how good Team Straus was, we watched and...
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Too candid
Lawmakers rarely let their guard down, but it happens sometimes when they are on their way out of office. There are two recent examples of this from the exiting establishment crowd. The first is...
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Fisher v UT
The vestiges of affirmative action are facing the gallows as Supreme Court Justices decide Fisher v UT, argued recently in our nation’s highest court. The court will issue its decision next year. This...
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Sunset Commission can too sunset the lottery
Earlier this year in a Sunset Commission meeting for the Texas Lottery Commission, a commissioner said that the Sunset Commission doesn’t sunset agencies. That’s not their job. Their job is to make...
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Hispanics are conservative, becoming Republican
With nothing to do, Texas liberals are reduced to dreamy forecasts about the future of Texas politics. They’ve gone from “hope and change” to “hope and pray,” except that they don’t generally pray. The...
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Parent PAC ouch
Parent PAC is a save-the-status-quo-in-education special interest group who played heavily in the past primary. A recently published Liberty Institute voter guide shows just how hollow supposed PPAC...
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Straus not strong enough to sit back
A weakened Speaker’s team must now do something they had hoped would be unnecessary: hustle speaker votes. In Straus’ perfect world, it would be unnecessary for Team Straus to make a single phone call...
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Burt the bitter
Former establishment Republican State Rep. Burt Solomons, still marinating in his own political failure, tweeted this morning on the re-election of Obama. His conclusion? Obama’s victory over Romney...
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Shelton race squandered
Republicans will look back at Mark Shelton’s campaign as a squandered opportunity. Like a specter, the incompetence arrived early and hovered. Right off the bat, the Shelton campaign allowed the Wendy...
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Conservatives, TreyMart, and TLR
In a new letter to the Democrat caucus pushed by Quorum Report, Trey Martinez-Fisher turned up the heat on Joe Straus. Conservatives can agree with Martinez-Fisher that Straus is a serious problem....
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Crony Casino bill filed by Ellis
Bill pre-filing for the 2013 session has begun. Yesterday, Senator Rodney Ellis D-Houston filed a casino gambling bill. According to several news articles Ellis is pushing the measure under the false...
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Straus has only 31 votes
The Texas Tribune, effectively acting as Team Straus’ press secretary right now, did a speaker vote count by phone last week. Thirty-one. That’s how many Representatives are willing to go on record as...
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Eppstein SD 10 failure
After the election a group of political observers gathered in Austin to debrief. Musing about the Senate District 10 race one journalist said there was no one happier that Wendy Davis had retained...
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Evan Smith helps Rep. Larson campaign for Straus
The Texas Tribune carried Straus propaganda in a guest column from Rep. Lyle Larson last week. In it, Larson used the tired line about how conservative the 82nd Legislature was. As an aside, it is...
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When conservatives cash out
A conservative is most vulnerable to being recruited by the establishment after finding his or her political ceiling. It is then that a conservative realizes that something besides conviction is now...
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King finally marries his political mistress
It seems King has finally divorced his first political wife and married his long-time political mistress. A Dallas Morning News article this morning said, “Rep. Phil King, who opposed Straus last...
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