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Chart Westcott, crony hopeful
If someone ever creates an award for the most lobby-rific new Texas Republican candidate in a political season, it needs to be called the Chart Westcott Award. Chart Westcott, aka “Richie Rich”, is the...
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Ross Ramsey fixes eye on cost of letting babies live
Ross Ramsey of the Texas Tribune gave his reflections on the abortion fight during the special session. One of his primary observations was that the “killing babies saves money” argument wasn’t leaned...
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Decision-making in Sillytown
House leadership is trying to impeach a champion of higher ed reform, but is protecting a State Board of Education member who appears obviously ineligible to serve. The difference? Wallace Hall wants...
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AgendaWise Responds to Statement of Salem Abraham
For Immediate Release July 30, 2013 Contact: admin@agendawise.com Austin, TX – Yesterday, as reported by Quorum Report, Salem Abraham, a wealthy investor, public official and political donor from...
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November water ballot measure would cook Texas’ books
In November Texans will be voting on a ballot measure to basically legalize the cooking of their own books, and Speaker Straus is leading the push to pass it. This is because the constitutional...
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Reservoir Dogs
This week Texas Secretary of State set the November ballot. The water fund amendment – Proposition 6 – will cook our state’s books and create a low visibility slush fund and the lobby effort to get it...
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The badguys all want the water fund
Meet Steve Bresnen. He is a lobbyist for trial lawyers and gambling interests. Now, as a supporter of H2O4Texas PAC, he’s pitching in with the business lobby to help pass the water fund amendment this...
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Branch out on a limb
It is red meat season and Attorney General hopeful Dan Branch is already serving caviar and crumpets. Yesterday Dan Branch helped make the case for his opponent Ken Paxton, releasing an endorsement...
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Bozo the scorecard
The ruling class’s “Texas Conservative Roundtable” has released its new scorecard, and it is more ridiculous than the first. The first thing to notice is that almost every single Republican got a blue...
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TX Tribune hosts quasi-infomercial for controversial CSCOPE
The Texas Tribune basically did an infomercial for CSCOPE, the controversial anti-American curriculum under fire from parents all over Texas. In the latest Tribcast a reporter tutored her Texas Tribune...
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Battleground Texas loves GOP establishment
Any Battleground Texas success will be the product of GOP sellout, a disturbing pattern of behavior voters are tiring of. Sure, Battleground Texas is setting up their voter fraud and/or voter turnout...
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Speaker race and the grassroots
The first two speaker races showed a tale of two outcomes: an opposition floor vote versus no opposition floor vote. The difference was huge. The opposition floor vote in 2011 undermined establishment...
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Suicide PAC
The water slush fund, on the ballot in November as Prop 6, is being sold to Texans right now by the Texas ruling class. Water Texas PAC, created by the ruling class to get Texans to deliver funds...
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Pitts learns from Truitt
Representative Jim Pitts has chosen not to become this cycle’s Vicki Truitt – the establishment Republican that held on too long amidst a swelling crony reputation. The writing was on the wall for...
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The Wendy Davis alchemy project
The left’s boot-licking relationship with Wendy Davis is an extended exercise in damage control. They are trying to transform her into gold somehow. The Davis saga is a bad omen for the left in their...
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The Trib’s worthless campaign predictions
The Texas Tribune “Inside Intelligence” campaign predictions are a reflection of Austin groupthink, which is driven by risk-avoidance, not analysis. Last cycle the same Texas Tribune Inside...
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CSCOPE’s new name
“TEKS Resource System” is the name given to makeover the image of the embattled CSCOPE, the substandard anti-American, anti-Christian K-12 learning resource parents are currently chasing out of the...
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Smitherman’s overcooked campaign character
Barry Smitherman, running for Attorney General, is creating a hardcore right wing campaign character, seemingly to counterbalance his long record as an Austin insider. Smitherman spent approximately...
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Smith’s Pitts job
Jim Pitts used his good buddies at the Texas Tribune to wrap a meaningless statement inside a puff piece to whitewash a growing drama. The drama is about Texas politicians moving unqualified but...
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CSCOPE fail
Tea Partier Ginger Russell seems to have outsmarted the Texas Education Agency, Thomas Ratliff, and the entire Texas education establishment in the battle over CSCOPE, the anti-American and...
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