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• Houston GOP Leaders Weren't Listening In Mayor's Race

  —Pondering Penguin

  The biggest losers in the recent Houston mayoral race were the well-known Republicans who lent their names and support to the losing candidate. Behind the mask of being the 'business community', they decided that a liberal lawyer/lobbyist who has reaped the benefits of city contracts through his law firm and [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:49pm EST
  

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• The GOP Refuses to Read a Bill it Opposes

  —Texas Kaos

  What is it with Republican Party? Does it utterly despise hard working and desperate Americans? Is the GOP too stubborn, lazy or too dumb to wrap its head around a very complex bill?  Or maybe reading is a very tedious and beyond boring act that takes time that could be [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:30pm EST
  

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• Secessionist candidate ends bid in Texas governor's race

  —PoliTex

  Secessionist Larry Kilgore of Mansfield is pulling out of the Republican primary race for governor and throwing his support behind Houston-area GOP activist Debra Medina.

  Although the Republican primary race has been billed as a showdown between incumbent Gov. Rick Perry and his leading challenger, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Kilgore told PoliTex that he [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:29pm EST
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• Larry Kilgore Withdraws from Governor's Race, Endorses Debra Medina

  —Burnt Orange Report

  

  
  

  Larry Gilgore, former Republican Guberntorial candidate best known for his secessionist political stances, has announced he is withdrawing from this year's contest and throwing his support to GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Debra Medina. Kilgore received just over 50,000 votes representing less than 8% of [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:53pm EST
  

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• Texas Watchdog story on donations not reported by Harris County GOP prompts call for independent audit

  —Texas Watchdog

  Readers had plenty to say concerning last week’s story about the money missing on the campaign finance report of the Harris County Republican Party. The story explained that some large donations to the party were reported on the donors’ forms covering the first half of the year but did not show [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:19pm EST
  by Trent Seibert

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• RNC’s 10 Guidelines for GOP Purity

  —Relaxed Politics

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  Mike Papantonio on the GOP Purity Test The RNC has decided that they need to be more homogeneous to come back into power. So they have created an “ideological purity test for candidates” for guidance. Such a plan like this implies they don’t think they are homogeneous now. No lack of [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  by Pellora

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• Open Letter to Annise Parker

  —Red Ink: Texas

  
  I emailed Ms. Parker, congratulating her on her win. Below is a slightly edited version for public consumption:
  
  Ms. Parker, I am a GOP precinct chair in Spring. I am also a long time local blogger that posts under the nom de plume of [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

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• GOP Senate prospects on the rise

  —PrairiePundit

  Last week I posted Karl Roves assessment and this week John Miller at Nation Review and Stuart Rothenberg do a state by state analysis showing increased Republican prospects. If the votes were held today I think they both understate the Republican trend, because the passion right now is [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:24am EST
  

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• Open Call to Congressional Republicans: Stand Up to the Democrats in Congress, or face a Tea Party Rebellion in your own Ranks

  —Libertarian Republican

  

  by JB Williams
  
  It’s official folks, with the Democrats steamrolling over the GOP filibuster intended to stop another TRILLION in wasteful spending yesterday, Republicans in congress have been handed their hat once again.
  
  Do you republicans not know that you are completely irrelevant? Or [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:02am EST
  

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• Adam Andrzejewski for Illinois Governor: Deserving of Conservative and Libertarian support

  —Libertarian Republican

  

  Adam Brickley, Founder of Draft Sarah Palin for VP 2008, has just interviewed Republican candidate for Illinois Governor Andre Andrzejewski. He is the insurgent Tea Party Patriot in 2nd place in the GOP primary, fighting against the GOP establishment whose backing tax raiser, and former Governor, moderate [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 4:45am EST
  

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• Archive | Kinky Friedman on TheActivistReport.com

  —The Ellis County Observer

  Democrat Kinky Friedman appeared on Kevin Crouch’s TheActivistReport.com show the other night. Listeners can download the show here: www.theactivistreport.com Crouch, 18, recently dropped out of the Precinct 111 primary against Don Wilson and now works for the Gov. Rick Perry campaign as a “field representative.” He’s slated to have GOP gubernatorial [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:56pm EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• Debra Medina MeetUp Group in Henderson County

  —The Ellis County Observer

  For those who live in and around Henderson County, there’s a MeetUp group devoted to GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina: http://www.meetup.com/Henderson-County-Medina-for-Texas/?gj=wg2_ej1b [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:38pm EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• In Texas, a showdown at GOP corral

  —TexasFred's

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  In Texas, a showdown at GOP corral AUSTIN, Texas – Rick Perry, the state’s swashbuckling Republican governor, says his opponent spends tax dollars too freely. She’s too liberal. She’s too Washington. She doesn’t get what he calls “Texas values.” One might imagine Perry’s opponent to be a Democrat, but she is [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:23am EST
  by TexasFred

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• CD-30: Dr. Stephen Broden & Maafa 21 (Eugenics, Planned Parenthood)

  —The Ellis County Observer

  The Ellis County Observer & BestSouthwestBlog.com wholeheartedly endorse Dr. Stephen Broden for the GOP nomination for U.S. Congress in the 30th District. It’s not enough that this pastor is pro-liberty, pro-Constitution and anti-socialistm, but he’s preaching (quite literally, actually) the truth about Planned Parenthood, eugenics and how the abortion-by-design in [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:39am EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• Gov. Perry to Visit Waxahachie Tuesday

  —The Ellis County Observer

  The latest news from the Ellis County GOP is below. I’m wondering when that $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for him, Ali Sharaf and rumored Railroad Commission candidate Chad Adams will be. Gov. Rick Perry will make a campaign stop on Tuesday, December 15, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the historic Rogers Hotel, [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:17am EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• DMN - GOP hopefuls get litmus test in Tarrant, Collin, Denton counties

  —The Collin County Observer

  GOP hopefuls get litmus test in Tarrant, Collin, Denton counties
  
  Saturday, December 12, 2009
  By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News

  Republicans filing to run in the March primaries in several local counties are being asked to take a party-platform purity quiz.

  Republican parties in Tarrant, Collin [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:22pm EST
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• The showdown in Texas GOP governor's primary

  —PrairiePundit

  Washington Post:
  
  Rick Perry, the state's swashbuckling Republican governor, says his opponent spends tax dollars too freely. She's too liberal. She's too Washington. She doesn't get what he calls "Texas values."

  One might imagine Perry's opponent to be a Democrat, but she is Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 1:27pm EST
  

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• JP-4: Bill Vansyckle Files

  —The Ellis County Observer

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  Ovilla Mayor Bill Vansyckle is currently the only candidate for Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace who has filed in the GOP primary. There were/are rumors that this could be a four-candidate affair. One of Vansyckle’s challengers for the seat that Linda Sibley is retiring from after eight years is [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 1:13pm EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• ‘A Very Necessary Republican Civil War’

  —The Ellis County Observer

  The RedState.com column I alluded to in my newest Freedom of the Press column is linked here: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/10/the-very-necessary-republican-civil-war/ And here’s the Dec. 17, 2009 edition of Freedom of the Press: Our GOP civil war Like it or not, there’s a war between factions of the Republican Party locally and it only mirrors what’s [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• TexasTribune.org | The (Debra) Medina Effect

  —The Ellis County Observer

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  One of those fairly new trusted news sources I’ve come to love reading everyday, The Texas Tribune, has a very good piece on the effect Debra Medina will have (and currently has) in the GOP gubernatorial race: http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2009/dec/11/medina-effect/ I don’t harbor the thoughts of a good Kay Bailey governorship either, but [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:38pm EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• GOP’s Rick Green for Texas Supreme Court, Place 3

  —The Ellis County Observer

  Place 3 on the Texas Supreme Court is currently held by Harriet O’Neill, but due to her pending retirement, there are at least two that I know of on the GOP side who are seeking this seat. One being this guy: Dear Joey, With the primary election just around the corner [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 11:13am EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• Hutchison to campaign as Republican?

  —PrairiePundit

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  Recent statements and strategy decisions have made clear that U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison believes it is Republicans — and not independents or Democrats, as some others have suggested — who can lift her to victory over Gov. Rick Perry in the March GOP primary.

  Hutchison's' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:16am EST
  

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• ACORN wins one

  —SocraticGadfly

  A federal judge has ruled that recent Congressional action specifically targeting ACORN is, as any constitutional lawyer with brains could tell, a bill of attainder and therefore not just illegal but unconstitutional. Glenn Greenwald has details.
  
  Oh, as Glenn points out, the House GOP is Constitutionally idiotic and [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 1:28pm EST
  

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• Help! Someone help me get up from the floor!

  —Relaxed Politics

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  I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! (kidding) I fell down laughing when I came across this headline. Senate GOP Leader: We’re Running on Health Care in 2010 via ABC News Share and Enjoy: [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 8:41am EST
  by Texas Betsy

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• WISCONSIN: Terri McCormick for Congress

  —Libertarian Republican

  

  LIBERTARIAN REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE PROFILE
  
  Terri McCormick is a candidate vying for a Congressional Seat in Northern Wisconsin District 8. The seat, currently held by a Democrat, is viewed as one of the most likely pick-ups for the GOP in 2010.
  
  McCormick is a former [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:03am EST
  

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• S.C. Senator Endorses Williams for KBH Senate seat -- is she leaving?

  —PoliTex

  

  Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., would-be GOP king-maker, decided to weigh into the drama-laden Texas political thicket today in Washington by endorsing Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams (left) for the U.S. Senate. Whao! Is he nuts? That would be for Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat -- you [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:11pm EST
  by Star-Telegram

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• Karl Rove: Reason for GOP Optimism in 2012 Senate Races

  —UrbanGrounds

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  A good round up from Karl Rove on the competitive Senate seats up for grab in 2012, and why the GOP has every reason to be optimistic. [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  by Robbie Cooper

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• Perry says it is human nature to demand loyalty from appointees

  —Texas Politics

  Gov. Rick Perry said today it is human nature to expect loyalty from appointees in his administration. Perry has been criticized for his aides and former aides pressuring some of his appointees over their support for GOP rival U.S. Sen....

  
  

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com

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• Perry says it is human nature to demand loyalty from appointees

  —Texas Politics

  Gov. Rick Perry said today it is human nature to expect loyalty from appointees in his administration. Perry has been criticized for his aides and former aides pressuring some of his appointees over their support for GOP rival U.S. Sen....

  
  

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:45pm EST
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• Mike Villarreal cans comptroller challenge

  —TRAIL BLAZERS

  Well, that was fast.

  Less than 48 hours after pushing the idea that he was seriously contemplating a run against GOP incumbent Susan Combs, state Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, told the Quorum Report in an interview this morning to nevermind. He'll be filing for a sixth term for' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:47am EST
  

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