Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up July 21, 2008
This week’s round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.
The Texas Cloverleaf asks if John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison want more HIV in the global pandemic? Our TX Senators were 2 of the 16 votes against the latest HIV/AIDS bill in the Senate this week that passed overwhelmingly.
WCNews at Eye On Williamson posts on Diana Maldonado’s great fundraising numbers in Diana Maldonado Has Almost 4 to 1 COH Advantage In HD-52.
WhosPlayin at WhosPlayin steped outside of his comfort zone a bit and commented on the Fannie and Freddie situation.
jobsanger blasts Republican attempts to allow offshore and ANWR drilling in Drilling Won’t Make Us Energy Independent and in Bush Playing Politics With Oil.
The bar may be open, says TXSharon at Texas Kaos in Fire Water: With Compliments from EnCana, but if Encana’s serving up the cocktails, it might be better to abstain.
McBlogger’s own Harry Balczak has a new recurring feature, Harry Balczak’s Reminder To You People. In this edition, he’d like to remind Those Of You Who Just Couldn’t Vote For Kerry that your decision was, well, pretty stupid. He is nice about it, though.
Vince at Capitol Annex notes that poultry kingpin Bo Pilgrim paid to jet around Texas Governor Rick Perry’s staff to promote the ethanol waver he bought and paid for with a $100,000 contribution to the Republican Governor’s Association.
Mean Rachel contemplates whether Fannie and Freddie have anything to do with being raised in 78704, but living through young-adulthood in 78749 in Crashes.
The final word, for now, on the Webb County Sheriff’s race says Martin Cuellar wins by 41 votes. Since the various ‘official’ totals for Cuellar have been +37, -133, +39 and finally +41, CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders what the h*ll happened!
Off the Kuff looks at the Harris County campaign finance reports and finds good news and not-so-good news for Democratic campaigns.
The Texas Observer’s Melissa Del Bosque had an observation about one of the panels at Netroots Nation this past weekend, and PDiddie at Brains and Eggs had some observations about what she observed.
BossKitty at BlueBloggin shows us smuggling humans into the US is no problem at all; From Africa to Mexico to US, Any Way They Can Immigrate.
BossKitty as TruthHugger points out the continued struggle by our soldiers suffering from PTSD and the inadequate response by the incapable VA, in But, When They Come Home ….
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
As one of my fave progressive blogs, and as two of my fave bloggers, I hope this doesn’t piss ya off too much BUT I just have to try…
Nader is coming to Texas:
Sunday July 27, 2008 2:00 p.m.
Houston, Texas
Ralph Nader w/ Matt Gonzalez
Hilton University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Suite 207, Houston, TX77204
Contribution- $10/$5 student
(202) 471-5833 or events@votenader.org
Sunday July 27, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Austin, Texas
Ralph Nader w/ Matt Gonzalez
Trinity United Methodist Church
600 East 50th St. Austin, TX 78751
Contribution $10/$5 student
(202) 471-5833 or events@votenader.org
I hope you’ll go out and hear him speak. You won’t regret it, I promise! As someone who has heard him speak a number of times, I can tell you that there is no better speaker anywhere. I believe him to be one of the greatest humans in history. Please go hear him out if you can.
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer