Archive for the ‘2008 Elections’ Category
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
A new poll purports to have predicted the vote in Austin’s Place 4 city council runoff five days before the election even though the firm didn’t release the results until this week, days after the actual voting took place.
Further undermining the pollster’s case is his misstatement of the margin of ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Ten thousand Austinites (plus all those undocumented immigrants who keep flooding the polls) cast their ballots during early vote, and now it’s all over but the smearing of each candidate by the other between now and Saturday’s final round.
Galindo is a Republican — or at least that’s what Morrison claims ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Several sources report that former congressman and gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell is telling Houston lawmakers that he will run in the special November 4 election to replace retiring state senator Kyle Janek.
Republicans in the SD 17 race are expected to include Austen Furse, a Houston financial services adviser, and Gary ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
We got more bile in the mail today in the form of negative campaigning by Laura Morrison. This one even hits Cid Galindo's dad for giving money to Bush.
We wouldn't vote for his dad either. Too bad Cid didn't hire an opposition researcher to look into Laura's parents' past.
The funniest ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Known as the oddest man in state government (emphasis on odd), Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is also frequently the odd man out among the three top Texas leaders. The other two, Gov,. Rick Perry and Speaker Tom Craddick, have been able to dominate the agenda and make the Houston ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Will Austin’s first woman mayor try to become Austin’s second woman mayor? Speculation on next year’s candidates has centered on current council members Brewster McCracken, Lee Leffingwell, and, increasingly, Mike Martinez. Some are suggesting the longtime Austin fixture who calls herself Grandma may also be eyeing a bid.
Strayhorn, ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
We couldn't make this stuff up...
Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott today played host to his Virginia counterpart, Bob McDonnell, during a fundraising reception at the Austin Club, where the two dragged the sack for McDonnell’s long-shot gubernatorial bid.
Lobbyists around town had been receiving phone calls from Abbott’s 20-something chief of ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Though we haven't seen any real polling in a while, we assumed that Laura Morrison was leading going into the runoff against El Cid.
Her consultants must be seeing something in the numbers that they don't like, because we saw our first piece of negative advertising today.
It is a big foldout ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
In Fact Daily reports this morning that Austin City Council member Betty Dunkerley, due to retire later this month, is backing down on parts of an unpopular ordinance she has been pushing to mandate all new homebuyers to bear the cost of expensive modifications that would make their properties accessible ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The runoff for Austin City Council Place 4 is beginning to come into focus, with endorsements lining up behind Laura Morrison, who led Cid Galindo in the first round last month.
The Man gives its nod to Morrison in a Sunday editorial, calling it “a close contest” but arguing that the ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The subterranean Austin city council runoff for the Place Four seat being vacated by Betty Dunkerly poked its head up this week when Laura Morrison, who led the voting in round one, criticized city leaders for awarding a contract to retool the Green Water Treatment Plant without sufficient public input. ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The Associated Press says Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is stepping up his ongoing efforts to get his $2 billion wind-turbine business off the ground — including an acknowledgment that his investment relies on federal tax incentive to survive.
“We are making Pampa the wind capital of the world,” Pickens says, ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Leffingwell Beats Meeker, Looks Ahead To McCracken
Lee Leffingwell handily defeated challenger Jason Meeker, setting the stage for the Austin city council member’s expected race against colleague Brewster McCracken in next year’s mayoral race.
Leffingwell needed a big win to position himself for his next campaign — and got it. He ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Catholics are turning out in record numbers this year to vote in Democratic presidential primaries from Texas to Pennsylvania. But at least a dozen of them were turned away from the polls yesterday in Indiana under that state’s strict new voter ID law, which was upheld by the U.S. ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Whether for re-election to his current post or Mayor next year isn’t entirely clear, but Austin City Councilman Mike Martinez has endorsed his dais mate Lee Leffingwell in a new YouTube spot.
Joined by a wide range of community leaders — from Shudde Fath and Joenne Grissom to Dwayne Lofton and ...
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