Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Fresh from earning almost 39 percent of his own fellow Texans’ vote, Gov. Rick Perry threw his weight behind former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Today, Rudy bows out of that race, having run what political observers are privately calling “the ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
The Houston Senator is planning on announcing his retirement tomorrow. Sources tell us it will be effective March 10.
Senator Dennis "The Menace" Bonnen anyone? Anyone? Yeah, us neither.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Turns out, Glen Maxey asked Ronnie Earle for some leniency for his lover's coke and DWI prosecution. He didn't seem to get any, but he does try his best to spin this one:
"I have a history of advocating in an aggressive way for people I care about," Maxey said.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France champion, has leaned an increasingly willing ear toward would-be kingmakers urging him to consider a political career, maybe even governor in 2010. And he might be more prepared for the new career than many thought.
After three years of stalling, more than $1 million ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The Chronicle does a pretty good job this week of covering lots of the action.
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Today’s joint endorsement by Austin’s three leading public safety associations could alter the political landscape of the May city council elections, giving Lee Leffingwell, Randi Shade, and Cid Galindo a leg up over their opponents.
The Austin Police Association, Austin Fire Fighters, and Austin-Travis County EMS workers put aside their usual ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
We got Allen Demling's press release announcing that he was running for council but thought it was a joke. We don't do follow up calls because news comes to us. But The Man ran with it, so it must be real.
We don't send crews out in vans to ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
We were out doing yard work and enjoying this stellar Austin day when we met this guy block walking. He is an incredibly nice man, full of hope and optimism. Yeah, the website will illicit a few chuckles, but have things gotten so bad that only a jaded ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Larry Joe Doherty, the former Houston lawyer running in the Democratic primary for the chance to take on Republican Congressman Mike McCaul, seems to be having trouble with the High Definition that campaigns can bring to view.
First, the blogs went crazy with accusations that he paid for a push poll ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Austin will have its first African American city manager when Toby Futrell leaves in May — Marc Ott, currently an assistant city manager in Fort Worth.
Ott and San Antonio assistant city manager Jelynne Burley were the last two candidates still in the running for the job after a quick ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Austin City Councilman Uncle Lee Leffingwell’s campaign kicks off Tuesday evening at Nuevo Leon Restaurant on East 6th. No word yet on whether this party is for his re-election race this May, his already-announced mayoral campaign next year or both.
Political observers are wondering if the 5:30 p.m. start time ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Never ones to let potential charges of hypocrisy steer them away from a good rhetorical attack, local Republican leaders have submitted three initiatives for their primary ballot in Travis County.
One targets the issue dujour, of course, calling on federal, state, and even local to “enforce U.S. immigration laws...” Look ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
As the local newspaper editorializes against what it calls the “secretive search” for a replacement for soon-to-retire Austin City Manager Toby Futrell, new details are leaking out about how the choice came down to the current candidates — which don’t include longtime Futrell deputy Laura Huffman.
Huffman reportedly had the four ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
“I know a lot of people are wondering if I’m going to be [a] candidate,” Jason Meeker says in this morning’s The Man. “I might be.”
Meeker, a spokesman for the RG4N group still fighting a planned Wal-Mart Supercenter at Northcross Mall, has been weighing a race against ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
The number of candidates to replace departing Austin City Manager Toby Futrell was reduced to two today — Jelynne Burley of San Antonio and Marc Ott of Fort Worth. Both finalists who were passed over for the top jobs in their current cities.
Out of the running is Futrell deputy ...
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