On Thanksgiving of 2006, Capitol Annex began what began what has become a Thanksgiving tradition on this blog: a post titled, “The Laws of Thanksgiving.” In its fourth year, “The Laws of Thanksgiving” has garnered more emails from readers than any other single non-political post in [...]
Although it was lost in the news cycle late last week because of the tragedy at Fort Hood, an interesting story has emerged in the continuing saga of Court of Criminal Appeals presiding judge Sharon Keller.
The daughter of Michael Richards–the death row inmate [...]
Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Ritchie today had strong words for State Rep. Chuck Hopson (D-Jacksonville) who announced he is joining the Republican Party.
From Richie’s statement:
“Make no mistake… as a rural Democratic elected official who served in rural Texas, I can tell you that if, in [...]
Capitol Annex has learned that State Rep. Chuck Hopson (D-Jacksonville) is switching parties later today.
Via QR:
Saying that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress do not reflect the concerns and conservative values of his district, State Representative Chuck Hopson announced today that he has formally resigned [...]
Cindy Burkett, A Mesquite Restaurateur and former staffer for State Sen. Bob Deuell (R-Greenville) has announced she will seek the Republican Party’s nomination for the HD 101 seat currently held by State Rep. Robert Miklos (D-Mesquite).
An already crowded field is emerging for the HD 1010 GOP [...]
14th Court of Appeals Justice Jeff Brown announced this week that he would enter the race to replace retiring Texas Supreme Court Justice Harriet O’Neill. O’Neill’s seat, Place Three, had previously attracted the attention of Fourth Court of Appeals justice Rebecca Simmons, who announced her [...]
In some of the most forceful language we’ve seen from a state party chair in a while, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie today called the notorious “teabaggers” exactly what most people think they are: fools. The comments came as the Democratic National Committee opened its [...]
Texas Governor Rick Perry today appointed a Euless minister to chair the board of the troubled Texas Youth Commission.
Although the boards for state agencies and commissions of such great importance are typically chaired by people with significant knowledge in that field or in business, Perry instead [...]
Texas Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison are in full-scale attack mode against each other over…travel costs? Yes, that’s right. They are arguing over who spends more government money on travel.
With nearly a combined half-century of legislative and leadership failures [...]
With Labor Day and the traditional kick-off of the 2010 election cycle just around the corner, we’re taking a few hours today to make some changes to Capitol Annex before we ramp up our blogging following the summer months when we took some time off from [...]
Four Democratic leaders in the Texas House of Representatives today endorsed an alumnus of that chamber–former Ambassador Tom Schieffer–for Governor in the 2010 Democratic Primary next March.
From the Schieffer campaign release:
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Schieffer today won key endorsements from four Democratic leaders [...]
Hank Gilbert (D-Whitehouse), the Democratic Party’s 2006 nominee for Agriculture Commissioner who has spent the last four years traveling across Texas fighting against toll roads and other bad GOP policies has announced that he will run for Governor in 2010.
Gilbert’s entrance into the race essentially makes [...]
Controversial former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) is helping Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael L. Williams raise money for his campaign to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate.
The Williams campaign featured a Gingrich fundraising appeal in an email sent out Tuesday morning:
Having been a part [...]
Greg Noschese, a business litigation attorney in the Dallas office of Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr resigned from the Mesquite City Council on Monday and will seek the GOP nomination in House District 101. The seat is presently held by freshman Robert Miklos (D-Mesquite).
You can view [...]
In the last four days, two Republicans have announced for the open seats on the Texas Supreme Court which will be created by the retirements of Justices Harriet O’Neill and Scott Brister.
Rose Vela, a justice on the 13th Court of Appeals, has announced she will seek [...]
U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison today made her run for Texas Governor “official,” with campaign announcements in LaMarque and Austin today.
Hutchison will face off against Texas Governor Rick Perry–the state’s longest serving chief executive–in a battle for the hearts and minds of GOP primary voters next March.
While it was [...]
Texas Congressman Chet Edwards (D-Waco) on Monday announced a series of in-person and telephone town hall meetings with constituents in the 17th Congressional District. Republicans, of course, had been moaning and groaning about Edwards only holding tele-town halls because those events gave them no opportunities [...]
Just when you thought network television could stoop no lower in its quest for reality show ratings points comes this utterly nauseating announcement from ABC:
Former House Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay will be one of 16 celebrity-ish contestants on this season of ABC’s hit show “Dancing with the Stars.”
Yes, [...]
After a session of being marginalized after the defeat of House Speaker Tom Craddick and racial gaffes, State Rep. Betty Brown (R-Terrell) could be in the fight of her political life.
Not only does she have at least three announced primary opponents, but the Asian American political community is gearing up [...]
Diane Trautman has formally announced that she will be a candidate for the post of Harris County Tax Assessor/Collector in the 2010 special election to fill the unexpired term of Paul Bettencourt, who resigned weeks after he defeated Trautman last fall amid mounting criticism over the way his office handled [...]
Kingsville businessman J. M. Lozano has announced that he’ll challenge freshman State Rep. Tara Rios Ybarra (D-South Padre Island) in the Democratic Primary next March.
Lozano is the owner of a restaurant franchise. He has a Bachelors degree in Government from the University of Texas at [...]
With some amusement, we note that this passes for news today, even though the story is years old:
As the state’s senior U.S. senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison has secured hundreds of millions of federal dollars for public projects across Texas. As one of the state’s top public [...]
Sharon Keller believes that ethics charges brought against her should be required to be judged by a higher standard than that required by the rules of the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct–even though all other judges are held to the Commission standards.
In a motion filed last week, Keller, the [...]
It appears that Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert may be entering the race to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the United States Senate.
Via the Dallas Observer:
The speculation is that Leppert might consider running for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat early next year should she decide at [...]
Quorum Report is reporting that Sandra Rodriguez will make another run against indicted State Rep. Kino Flores (D-Palmview) in the 2010 Democratic Primary.
Rodriguez came within a thousand votes of defeating Flores in last year’s primary.
Related posts:TX GOV: Schieffer Announces [...]
Texas Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Dallas), head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, an avid opponent of earmarks, is under the microscope of the national media for a $1.6 million earmark for “dirgible research” for an Illinois company.
The problem is that the Illinois company admits it can’t actually build any blimps.
Via [...]
The Progressive States Network has a short analyisis of the 81st Session of the Texas Legislature which is worth reading.
We’ve printed it below the fold.
The Texas legislature only meets once every two years, and this year there was enough drama, both real and fabricated, to last until they reconvene [...]
The Austin American-Statesman first reported this morning about some bizarre “hidden words” slapped into the source code of a campaign website belonging to U.S. Senator and gubernatorial candidate Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Although the Statesman told us about the amusing episode, they didn’t tell us about all of the entertaining phrases, [...]
Kay Bailey Hutchison did some quick backtracking yesterday on the issue of when she might resign.
From NPR:
But NPR congressional correspondent David Welna reports that Hutchison appeared before reporters late this afternoon to qualify her remarks.
She would quit her seat ONLY if Perry dropped out of the race, she explained. [...]
A great video from the Texas Democratic Party, full-size below the fold.
Hutchison Breaks Promise, Opposes Sotomayor:
[...]Speculation has already begun about who Texas Governor Rick Perry will appoint to replace U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison if she resigns early, as she indicated this morning, to run against Perry as governor.
Likely possibilities are Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, State Sen. Florence Shapiro (R-Plano), State Sen. Jane [...]
United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison told a Dallas radio show host this morning that she will likely resign from the U.S. Senate this fall–specifically in September or October–to dedicate herself full time to her gubernatorial primary against Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Via Trailblazers:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison [...]
Although the mainstream media has been covering racial tensions in Paris, Texas (Lamar County) in the wake of the death of Brandon McClelland (and release of two men initially charged with his murder), it is a story that doesn’t seem to be getting as much attention as it [...]
It looks like we’ve got something else to get the property tax relief crowd in an uproar:
Trustees of cash-strapped Texas school districts are being forced by budget deficits to consider the thorny issue of rescinding a local-option homestead exemption that some of them granted to homeowners during easier [...]
Houston Mayor Bill White’s campaign for United States Senate has announced that White raised $1.8 million for the filing period ending June 30. Interestingly, a good chunk of that came from White himself:
The contributions for the filing period ending June 30th totaled more than $1.8 million, with more [...]
Former Texas Comptroller John Sharp this week gained two key endorsements from Harris County in his campaign for the U.S. Senate Seat expected to be vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison.
The endorsements came from two county commissioners in Harris County–right in the back yard of Sharp’s principal opponent, Houston [...]
If you thought that the State Board of Education was done with creationism versus evolution a few months ago, think again.
David Barton, the far-right WallBuilders founder and pseudo historian who was appointed to sit on the Expert Review Panel for the state’s social studies standards wants to [...]
On his campaign website, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples is touting all of his hard work on food safety as a reason that Texans would want to re-elect him:
During his first term, Staples has met in-person with Texas families across the Lone Star State in pursuit of fulfilling [...]
We’ve done a bit of fact checking on David Barton’s analysis of the Texas Social Studies TEKS already, and now it is time to take a closer look at Barton’s analysis. Hang on for a bumpy ride.
First off, Barton is following the lead of Don McLeroy and [...]
David Barton, the pseudo-historian known for simply making up history and founder of WallBuilders and member of the Texas State Board of Education’s Expert Review Panel for Social Studies Curriculum, has a lot of concerns with the current social studies curriculum used in Texas. The problem is [...]
By now, you are no doubt familiar with the so-called Expert Panel the State Board of Education has appointed to review Social Studies Curriculum in Texas.
As we have noted before, the panel isn’t all experts. A couple are simply right-wing demagogues and religious zealots–hardly the [...]
A eulogy delivered by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston) at a memorial service for pop icon Michael Jackson in Los Angeles a few hours ago is already causing a storm to swirl around the longtime Texas Democrat, herself no stranger to controversy.
Via Politico:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee [...]
Todd Staples (R-Palestine) announced this week that he will seek a second term as Texas Agriculture Commission.
The decision was unsurprising given that Staples, who has long desired upward mobility in state government, is trapped where he is.
He is unqualified to run for an open Attorney General spot, not [...]
Dallas attorney Eric Johnson, who intends to challenge State Rep. Terri Hodge (D-Dallas) in the 2010 Democratic Primary, reported in a press release this morning having raised over $60,000 since announcing his candidacy on June 5.
Although Rep. Hodge is presently under federal indictment (with a trial underway that [...]
It is only July, and already the big guns are wading into the pending battle between State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) and former Tyler Mayor Joey Seeber in the 2010 GOP Primary.
Last Friday, in exchange for an endorsement for his 2010 Gubernatorial bid, Texas Governor Rick Perry [...]
State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) ended his gubernatorial campaign on Friday kind of like an Enzyte commercial: with an endorsement no one really believes.
Berman bowed out of the gubernatorial race and endorsed Texas Governor Rick Perry–the man who, all year, Berman has alleged [...]
A popular Texas-based conservative e-mail newsletter has deemed U.S. Senator John Cornyn a “squishy moderate” for his alleged support of an immigration reform package.
Coming on the heels of Cornyn being booed at an anti-tax “tea party,” The Peter Morrison Report, published weekly, attacks Cornyn as a [...]
The buzz in Austin is that Texas Governor Rick Perry will appoint right-wing, Obama-hating State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar (R-Richmond) to chair that body following the defeat of Dr. Don McLeroy’s nomination for the position in the Texas Senate this spring.
Evidently, John Cornyn’s image among the Teabagging set isn’t what it used to be:
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn drew boos from a crowd outside the Texas Capitol this afternoon as he spoke at a “tea party” rally organized by the Texas office of Americans for Prosperity.
Cornyn was [...]
Taking a look at the declared candidates for governor on the Democratic side of the aisle in 2010, which basically amounts to 2008 Railroad Commission candidate Mark Thompson and Ambassador Tom Schieffer (with Kinky Friedman still “considering” a run), many Democrats across the state find themselves wanting….well, more.
One [...]
State Sen. Leticia Van De Putte (D-San Antonio) today ended months of speculation concerning whether or not she will run for Texas governor by saying she won’t do so, and instead will work to draft fellow state senator Kirk Watson (D-Austin) into the race.
Prominent Democrats must put personal [...]
With anticipation building about the impending Special Session of the Texas Legislature that Governor Rick Perry is set to call, lawmakers are asking Perry to add a lot of items to the call.
Perry, who has said he will call a short special session to deal with the [...]
Taking a look at the list of vetoes issued last week by Texas Governor Rick Perry’s office, it isn’t hard to see the direction he is trying to take his 2010 campaign. Perry skillfully used his veto pen to cozy up to his Republican base.
He vetoed bills [...]
The U.S. Senate Campaign of Texas Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones is denying rumors that she is set to leave the race for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate Seat.
Alicia Collins, campaign manager notes:
The rumors you have heard are completely untrue. The fact is, Commissioner Jones is [...]
It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up.
Neil at Texas Liberal writes about the relocation of the National Cash Register company from Dayton, Ohio to Georgia. Treating people like dirt for 200 years gives Southern [...]
On Thursday, Capitol Annex will bring readers its wrap-up coverage of the 81st session of the Texas Legislature, including our list of the best and worst legislators of the Session.
We’ve put ours a bit later than most outlets do, primarily to be able to take a longer and [...]
Former Tyler Mayor Joey Seeber has announced that he will seek the state house seat currently held by State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) in the 2010 Republican Primary.
Berman announced late last month that it was his intention to continue his likely ill-fated run for governor, meaning [...]
What do you do when you are Texas longest-serving governor, running for re-election to a third term against a tough-as-nails opponent, and your entire administration has basically been a dismal failure when it comes to any meaningful issues of importance to everyday Texans?
Well, you focus on what you [...]
The buzz around the corridors of the Capitol this week has been that Republicans are publicly salivating–and Democrats are privately anxious–over the implications the Great Chubbathon of 2009 over voter identification legislation will have on the 2010 election cycle.
House Republican Caucus Chair Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) has already [...]
Controversial State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler), announced over the weekend that he would remain in the 2010 GOP Primary race for Governor of Texas–a fact that could potentially fatally bleed rightwing support fromTexas Governor Rick Perry.
Berman told the Houston Chronicle that he would remain in the race [...]
In the Texas House of Representatives, it is essentially “D-Day” for voter identification legislation. The House has few days left to take up the bill, and Republicans remain intent on ramming the legislation through the Chamber. It is, as Glenn Smith notes, the civil rights battle of [...]
Last week, the Texas House passed a smokeless tobacco tax hailed by Republicans and groups like the Texas Association of Business as a giant step forward in closing a “tax loophole.” TAB has even taken out radio advertisements touting this, and the benefits that the tax will [...]
[We've written before on how bad things are over at the Texas Railroad Commission. So have others. As you read this, you might be wondering why you should care about a dispute between an oil company and the Railroad Commission. Read on and you'll see.]
You know things [...]
Republicans are reportedly working to resurrect a dead senate bill which would have required that proof of citizenship be presented in order to renew or obtain a driver’s license or state ID from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Sources tell Capitol Annex that Republicans will attempt to attach [...]
Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Albert Hawkins today officially notified the Governor of his intention to retire.
From the HHS press release:
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to have served with so many state leaders and legislators who share a passion for public service,” Hawkins said. “It has [...]
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that more than $90 million in Recovery Act funds will go to the State of Texas to maintain or increase public safety in the state, while creating or retaining jobs within the law enforcement community. These Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance [...]
An email from the Center for Public Policy Priorities this morning noted that about 70,000 Texans will be left out in the cold in terms of federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation beginning in July if the House doesn’t take action today. From the CPPP:
Currently pending in House Calendars, SB [...]
Shanda Perkins, a retired banker frequently mentioned as an instigator or reporting party in a sex toy sales scandal that plunged Burleson into the national spotlight and resulted in years of litigation, has been rejected by the Texas Senate as Governor Rick Perry’s nominee to the Texas Board [...]
Supporters of longtime Texas appeals court justice Linda Yanez are touting the jurist as a potential replacement for retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
The Rio Grande Guardian reports that Yáñez.’s supporters at UT Pan-American have set up a Facebook group to promote her as a [...]
Texas Governor Rick Perry is taking “Tea Parties” to a new level (or a new low, depending upon how you look at it). He’s going to co-host a Tea Party with South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford–over the phone.
Hoping to recapture the grassroots energy of last [...]
We’ll make no comment on this video because it speaks for itself (and is hilarious).
[...]For our readers who have expressed interest in the changes made by the 81st Texas Legislature relating to DWI laws, we wanted to draw your attention to an interesting website belonging to a Dallas criminal defense lawyer that has compiled some interesting and useful information elated to [...]
Texas Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Dallas) has told the New York Times in Monday’s editions that unemployment is on the rise because President Barack Obama wants to consolidate power and wipe out capitalism in America.
Via the Huffington Post:
Sessions told the Times that Obama’s plan is [...]
[UPDATES THROUGHOUT: 3:02 p.m.]
Although Republicans still likely don’t have enough votes for a controversial voter identification measure to pass in the full House, one Democratic State Representative abandoned his party and core Democratic principles on Monday to help the measure get to the floor.
State Rep. Joe Heflin (D-Crosbytown), [...]
Six years ago today, Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives broke quorum and headed to Ardmore, Oklahoma to stop the passage of a partisan redistricting bill engineered by former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land).
In the six years following the heroic stand taken by House [...]
The House Elections Committee today will take up and consider Senate Bill 362, the controversial voter identification legislation that has threatened to paralyze the House since it passed out of the senate earlier this year.
Smith told the Austin American-Statesman last week that he is halting his attempts [...]
Last week, Burnt Orange Report reported that Houston Mayor Bill White publicly stated that U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison told him she would resign in time to force a May 10 special election for her seat to be called next year:
Was just at a Bill White meet [...]
It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up.
The city of DISH, TX is one of several municipalities that have already adopted a resolution calling for the repeal of Big Oil’s exemption to [...]
A slew of right-wing groups were emailing members of the Texas Legislature yesterday demanding that they vote against SB 710, legislation which would have subjected the State Board of Education to review by the Sunset Advisory Commission.
Among other things, rightwing groups called the bill a “punishment” on the [...]
The Texas House yesterday passed legislation that will allow judges to exempt teens and young adults who engage in consensual sex from being required to register as sex offenders.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has more:
The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday that would allow judges to spare teen-agers and [...]
The Texas House of Representatives will today consider the “Sunset” bill for the Texas Department of Transportation–an agency which, in the last decade, has become the most controversial and problem-plagued state agency that doesn’t handle criminal justice or prison matters.
The bill, HB 300, addresses a number of problems [...]
As House Elections Committee Chairman Todd Smith (R-Euless) used muntain climbing metaphors to describe the process of getting a voter identification bill to the floor of the Texas House, Democrats were pushing to have a full hearing for what is essentially the third version of the controversial legislation [...]
The Republican Party of Texas has crafted a trashy internet ad targeting House Democratic Leader Jim Dunnam (D-Waco) for killing a bill which would have increased the penalty for evading arrest if the suspect was on foot.
And, as could be expected, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of [...]
House Bill 4237, legislation by State Rep. Aaron Pena (D-Edinburg) to extend the “Privileged Matters” clause of the Texas Civil Practices & Remedies Code to citizen journalists, passed out of the House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence yesterday 8-1, with State Rep. Beverly Wooley (R-Houston) casting [...]
Lynne Cheney, wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is under consideration as a possible nominee to an expert panel that will guide the revision of social studies curriculum in Texas, Capitol Annex has learned.
Cheney is well-known for crusading against national history and social studies standards [...]
Conservative forces in the Texas Senate forced heated battles over legislation relating to providing contraceptives to teen parents and pre-abortion ultrasounds on Friday.
The first fight occurred over legislation by State Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston) which, as originally written, required women to be subjected to an ultrasound examination prior [...]
Comedian Bill Maher took on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s secessionist attitude and his dislike of evolution Friday night in his “New Rules” segment of his weekly HBO television show, Real Time With Bill Maher.
Maher starts in on evolution generally at about 1:42 in the above clip; he [...]
The Texas State Board of Education is scheduled to formalize the appointment of several right-wing fundamentalists with no social studies or history background and who are generally hostile to public education to a so-called “expert panel” to guide the revision of the state’s social studies curriculum.
The Texas Freedom [...]
The Senate won’t be holding a vote on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s nomination of Dr. Don McLeroy as Chair of the State Board of Education. In fact, McLeroy won’t even get a vote in the Nominations Committee.
State Sen. Mike Jackson (R-La Porte), who chairs the Nominations Committee today, [...]
On the day President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in office, Americans United for Change asked U.S. Representative Pete Sessions who he thinks he is representing with his repeated votes against the President’s efforts to turn on the corner on the worst economic recession since the Great [...]
Democracy for Texas, a state-level group of the Howard Dean founded Democracy For America, has announced it is temporarily spending its statewide operations.
From an email sent to DFT supporters this morning:
Like many affiliated groups around the country, Democracy for Texas has spent some time since the election evaluating [...]
Although Republicans are now boasting 71 signatories on their “statement of principles” concerning voter identification legislation, the GOP still appears at least two votes short of passage.
In actuality, five Republicans didn’t sign the letter, but three have excuses of some variety. Rep. Todd Smith (R-Euless) is chair of [...]
Former State Rep. Juan Garcia (D-Corpus Christi) has been nominated by President Obama to be the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Garcia, who served in the Texas House one term before being defeated, is no stranger to Obama.
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times has more:
President Barack Obama on [...]
A company partially owned by State Rep. Allen Fletcher (R-Tomball) is caught up in a white-collar crime investigation. Texas Monthly has the story:
A federal civil complaint filed last fall by the U.S. attorney’s office alleges that a company affiliated with Tomball state representative Allen Fletcher, the chairman [...]
On Monday, myself and Karl-Thomas Musselman of Burnt Orange Report testified before the House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence in favor of House Bill 4237 by State Rep. Aaron Pena (D-Edinburg).
Rep. Pena’s bill extends the “Privileged Matters Clause” of the Texas Civil Practices & [...]
Following Monday’s hearing on his resolution to launch impeachment proceedings against Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Justice Sharon Keller, State Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Fort Worth) told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he would force a vote on his resolution on the House floor even if it was rejected by [...]
[Updated to include a correction]
There has been a lot of interest in the last few days about State Rep. Wayne Christian’s HB 566, which would move the Public Integrity Unit–which, among other things, prosecutes state officeholders who break the law–from the Travis County District Attorney’s [...]
[Update--minor correction; incorrect name in first paragraph, 9:28 a.m.]
The Texas Democratic Party won’t likely change its primacaucus system known to most as the “Texas Two Step,” anytime soon, according to State Sen. Royce West (D-Houston), chair of a party committee charged with investigating the process and making [...]
