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• Please remove me from this blog

  this blog is no longer being updated. Please remove my account from it. [...]
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  Posted: December 27, 2006, 11:51am EST
  by David (Austin Tx)

• Please remove me from this blog

  At least temporarily, as I am trying to switch over to the new blogger. Thanks. [...]
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  Posted: December 23, 2006, 2:11pm EST
  by James

• Greg Abbott = Big Hypocrite

  Go read the new blog on what will undoubtedly be a lengthy, detailed subject, particularly with this news today. [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2006, 2:31pm EDT
  by Perry Dorrell, aka PDiddie

• DeLay to remain on November ballot

  It seems that Tom DeLay outsmarted himself when he ran in the Republican primary for his Congressional seat, then tried to duck out and get the Texas Republican Party to replace him on the ballot with someone else he approved of. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks announced today that [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2006, 12:54pm EDT
  by Richard

• We know a million bucks ain't enough

  How much is? How much money would it take for the current Attorney General of Texas to say: "My moral values preclude me from making a ruling in this case":
  
  One thing you have to like about Texas politicians is their resistance to embarrassment.
  
  Take the case [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2006, 4:38pm EDT
  by Perry Dorrell, aka PDiddie

• Tom DeLay's final legal defense fund report.

  Tom DeLay has raised $330,000 for his legal defense fund since January 1 and has nearly $1,000,000 in unpaid legal bills at this time according to his final financial disclosure for his legal defense fund. He also has $1,400,000 in his campaign fund which can be used to pay legal [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2006, 3:19pm EDT
  by Richard

• Supreme Court to announce TX redistricting decision this week

  Roll Call state that the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision on Tom DeLay's 2003 Texas redistricing. The decision is expected this week.' [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2006, 11:17am EDT
  by Richard

• No Fitzmas this year.

  The children are crying. [...]
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  Posted: June 13, 2006, 7:14am EDT
  by Perry Dorrell, aka PDiddie

• Rove to Bush: "I will be indicted"

  Jason Leopold has led this story all the way to the finish line:
  
  Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2006, 9:01pm EDT
  by Perry Dorrell, aka PDiddie

• Finally. A frame that fits my portrait of Jesus.

  Or more specifically, the snapshot of the practice of American politics and religion.
  
  From now on, as Andrew Sullivan has established and Phillip Martin has advanced, "Christians" will be replaced with Christianists and "Christianity" is discarded in favor of Christianism.
  
  You're going to have click on' [...]
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  Posted: May 09, 2006, 6:58am EDT
  by Perry Dorrell, aka PDiddie

• CD-22 Repukes huddle to pick eventual loser

  The real news is the last line of this article:

  
  Republican leaders from Harris County met in Pasadena Saturday to interview potential candidates for the 22nd District congressional seat that will be vacated by outgoing Rep. Tom DeLay sometime in May or June.

  
  The day drew seven hopefuls, who [...]

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  Posted: May 07, 2006, 7:28am EDT
  by Perry Dorrell, aka PDiddie

• Appeals Court agrees; DeLay Conspiracy charge dismissed

  According to the Associated Press 04-19-2006 a Texas Appeals court today agreed with a lower court ruling that the Texas Law on conspiracy did not apply to Tom DeLay's actions on money laundering in 2002.
  
  This does not mean DeLay did not conspire to illegally launder corporate' [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2006, 11:16am EDT
  by Richard

• The Public's Right to 'No'

  The Texas Observer on Bill Ceverha and the Texas Ethics Commission. (Need background?)
  
  It was as if the Taliban had commandeered Austin’s premiere strip joint: The Texas Ethics Commission, the very state agency created to service the body politic’s right to know, orchestrated a coverup of [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2006, 3:22am EDT
  by Perry Dorrell, aka PDiddie

• Duval County voting irregularities reported

  Has the Parr family again returned to its political ways? Actually, the Box 13 votes that gave Lyndon Johnson his 87 vote victory in the 1948 Democratic Primary came from the nearby Jim Wells County, but it was apparently orchestrated by the famed "Duke of Duval", George Parr. [See [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2006, 9:31am EDT
  by Richard

• DeLays' goons practice Brownshirt tactics

  Republican goons at Tom DeLay's beck and call work to disrupt today's Press Conference by Nick Lampson. Here are pictures of the would-be Nazis.
  
  Anyone besides me remember a similar incident during the 2000 Florida recount in which goons (in white shirts and ties) from Tom DeLay's' [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2006, 4:12pm EDT
  by Richard

• Trans Texas Corridor Toll Road will have winners and losers

  The proposal for Rick Perry's Trans Texas Toll Road running parrallel and to the east of IH 35 is going to set up some real political issues. Who benefits, and who loses? (See article in Austin American Statesman.)
  
  Besides the question of whose land will be taken to' [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2006, 1:01pm EDT
  by Richard

• Special Election in TX-22?

  DavidNYC at SwingStateProject has an interesting take on the possibilities.
  Fortunately, Texas law recognizes that not all vacancies are created equal. The governor may choose whether or not to call a special election - holding one is not mandatory. Gov. Rick Perry must now exercise his discretion [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2006, 10:04am EDT
  by boadicea

• Why did DeLay wait 'til now to announce his resignation?

  The Washington Post has what will probably be the definitive article explaining Tom DeLay's motivation and timing for waiting until after the Texas Republican Primary to announce his resignation, yet still not going on to run for reelection in the Fall.
  
  The short answer is that he wants' [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2006, 9:15am EDT
  by Richard

• Is anyone reading this stuff here?

  If so, leave a comment. Anything. just say something. [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 5:57pm EST
  by Richard

• As a society we get the government ~WE~ pay for

  We citizens can spend the money up front to pay for candidates to run in the elections, or we can let the people with large sums of money available pay for the candidates. The government our society gets does different things. Do we want better society, or do we want [...]

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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 5:32pm EST
  by Richard

• First draft of Texas Republic Constitution found

  From the Austin-American Statesman: Lost to history until an archivist at the Texas General Land Office found it two years ago in the agency's collections, it is about to return temporarily to its birthplace 100 miles east of Austin on the bank of the Brazos River, where in March' [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2006, 8:53am EST
  by Richard