Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Texas Gov. Rick Perry used the Republican delegates gathered at Austin’s Delco Center this weekend to pitch the book he published just last month, “On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For.”
Perry decided that a captive audience of fellow conservatives was a good ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Democrats around the country are clamoring for change in a heated presidential campaign. But as the endorsement rounds for the May city council races come to a close back here in Austin, the message is more of the same.
Place 1 incumbent Lee Leffingwell has all the establishment support in ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Former Travis County Sheriff and Republican State Representive Terry Keel says he’s too busy trying to elect Democrat Mindy Montford in the DA runoff to bother with helping his own sister-in-law, Republican Donna Keel, in her race against Democratic state rep Valinda Bolton.
Keel, the hardline Republican who also held the ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Campaign reports are due Monday in the second round of the Travis County DA’s race, and political observers are waiting to see if the candidates will come clean in reporting who they’ve taken money from — and in one case, given money to.
Under fire for heavy support from lobbyists close ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
We love the heat being generatd in this DA's race! This little nugget was just irresistable...
In the midst of her runoff campaign for Travis County District Attorney on April 8, Mindy Montford has turned to a disgraced political consultant charged with election fraud to help her get across the ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
UT Chancellor Mark Yudof told state leaders this week that he will accept the top job at the University of California, and Gov. Rick Perry has authorized UT officials to offer the soon-to-be-vacant post to U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.
If Hutchison accepts, it will trigger a special election to fill ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Will OneToughGrandmaCarolKeetonMclellanRylanderStrayhorn really run for mayor of Austin?
Considering the rest of the potential field, we say go for it. Heck, she has more charisma and leadership in a single cackle than Leffingwell's entire tenure and would be a lot more fun than Punky Brewster. We think this could turn ...
Posted in City Council, News | 4 Comments »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
No, we don’t mean the persistent whispers that second-place finisher Mindy Montford is not-so-secretly backed by Republicans and corporate lobbyists - Capitol Annex has that story covered pretty well.
We mean the fact that Bill Noble, main political honcho for voucher advocate Dr. James Leininger, and Louis Malfaro, president of ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Texas Monthly publisher and town crank Mike Levy has welcomed new Austin City Manager to town with one of his patented email exchanges designed to demonstrate the truth behind our fair city’s reputation for keepin’ it weird.
The electronic flap revolves around Ott’s recent appointment of a new director for the ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Austin’s former mayor and current state senator Kirk Watson hits the mid-century mark today, turning 50 as he tries (so far without success) to dust himself off after his highly public stumble on the Chris Matthews show last month. Happy birthday, anyway.
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Austin Mayor Will Wynn said yesterday that he won’t be supporting a ballot initiative this year on single-member districts, after sitting on the fence for months. As the swing vote, Wynn’s public pronouncement effectively kills the stop-start effort, which has has had trouble finding a vocal proponent beyond council ...
Posted in Follow-Up, 2008 Elections, City Council | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Having taken a pass on a job-creating studio complex, the Austin City Council may now be poised to take a dump. Will they really go through with it?
Just last week, a majority of the council — Will Wynn, Betty Dunkerley, Jennifer Kim, and Lee Leffingwell — got cold feet and ...
Posted in 2008 Elections | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Gary Cobb, who ran third in the Travis Co. District Attorney’s race on March 4, will endorse Rosemary Lehmberg tomorrow according to The Man... and we just got a press release hinting as much.
The runoff with second-place finisher Mindy Montford is April 5.
Posted in 2008 Elections | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Despite unprecedented participation and hundreds of complaints about the process, the Texas Democratic Party has given up. They have their projections and are gonna just let things work themselves out.
We are left to ask if they received their election training in Florida. All we know is that they ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The betting is it might be Councilman Lee Leffingwell, who has decided to vocally oppose the Villa Muse project along with its purported 40,000 new jobs, not to mention the new taxes destined for Del Valle schools and ACC Wynn support.
Wynn, in trouble again for his quick temper, has been ...
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