Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 10th, 2007
The nation’s GOP governors will gather next week in St. Paul, Minnesota. You know, the sister city of Minneapolis, where the Larry Craig Memorial Men’s Room is located.
Last time the Republican Governor’s Association got together, it was for a fundraising dinner in the nation’s capital and chaired by Texas’s ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Driftwood, Texas for starters.
Patrick Rose bought 1,500 barbecue dinners for his fundraiser at the Salt Lick this weekend and told the local newspaper that he had fallen one-third short of that goal when only 1,000 supporters attended.
It turns out that only 312 dinners were actually served.
Either Rose's support base is ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Hapless Austin city councilman Lee Leffingwell has apparently called constituents who have fallen on hard times and are in need of social services "debris."
American-Statesman reporter Kate Alexander's Sunday story about the city's proposed $2.5 billion budget points out that most of the nearly $1 million left to allocate will go ...
Posted in City Council, News | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Speaking of the homeless, soon-to-be-single councilman Brewster McCracken is telling folks he has the support to close the controversial Austin City Store, which has lost more than $100,000 during its first year of operations and needs that much more to stay in business, according to the proposed new budget.
McCracken says ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Word circulated before Labor Day that Rick Perry and his family would soon move out of the Governor’s Mansion, and at least 61 percent of Texans quietly applauded. But wait! Turns out the arrangement is only temporary while taxpayers who can’t afford to update their own homes fund ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
We get tips. We try to check them out. Sometimes you can and sometimes you can't. We are going to go ahead and print this one. If it turns out to not be true, we can always delete it!
Below is the tip. We edited out the ...
Posted in rumor, 2008 Elections, State | 8 Comments »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Kimberly Reeves has a follow up story on the difficulties faced in looking for SMD. This time in the Austin Chronicle. No need to rehash it here.
You can look at the web page for the city commission charged with investigating the matter by clicking here.
After reading the article one is ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
When Travis Co. Democratic Party chairman Chris Elliott announced last week that he won’t run again, longtime local Democrat Andy Brown was quick out of the shoot with his own announcement and an extensive list of heavy-hitting supporters. But Austin being the party town it is, we all know ...
Posted in 2008 Elections, News | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Was it an inadvertent layout? Or a conscience “secret” message?
Today’s local above-the-fold newspaper headline on a story about President Bush’s surprise drop-in to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq’s Anbar province read: “Bush jets into Iraq for show...”
Picking up the paper and peeking below the fold uncovered the rest ...
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