Archive for the ‘2008 Elections’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
As early voting in the May 10 Austin city council races gets underway, the main candidates in Place 1 are crowding out the local airwaves. Uncle Lee Leffingwell, 67, goes after whispers that he’s too old or somehow lacking in the energy required to sit on the dais for ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Voters in Wisconsin this week limited their Governor’s ability to freely edit state budget bills by deleting word or phrases “to create entirely new meanings never intended by the original authors.”
Once known as the Vanna White veto, the practice was reduced (but not eliminated) by more than 70 ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
According to an analysis of Monday’s early vote in the Travis County District Attorney’s Democratic runoff, 21.1 percent of those who cast ballots had a history of voting in previous Republican primaries.
If the trend continues, persistent rumors that one of the candidates is making a concerted effort to attract Republican ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Mark Thompson came out of nowhere to force a runoff with Dale Henry in the statewide Texas Railroad Commission race a week from today.
A political newcomer who knocked off a former San Antonio city councilmember to qualify for the second round of voting, Thompson ran into trouble when he was ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Twenty points higher than his share of the vote last election. Happy birthday, anyway.
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
With that oh-so-obvious headline, the Sunday front page of The Man just about summed where we sit leading into tomorrow’s Election Day festivities.
Who turns out is the question that decides most elections, with the possible exceptions of Jim Wells County’s Box 13 back in 1948 or the Supreme Court decision ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
With the Democratic presidential candidates criss-crossing Texas to stump for “change” and “a better future,” longtime Travis County DA Ronnie Earle held a news conference today to talk about restoring Austin’s congressional seat to the glory days of Lyndon B. Johnson and J.J. “Jake” Pickle.
Earle endorsed Dan Grant for Congressional ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
For years Democrats were left to ponder such deep philosophical questions as, "If I vote in a Presidential primary, and the winner has already been decided, is it still voting?"
This year is very different though. Democrats appear to have fallen "butt backwards" into a little luck.
At the midway point ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Elise Hu does a great job framing this thing, so we won't. We just wish these types of questions had been asked back when it really mattered.
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