The Texas Blue: News
Reyes bringing it home
Sat, 01/06/2007 - 10:44am
Paul Burka has a post up about how Silvestre Reyes got some Homeland Security dollars for El Paso. The title is hilarious.
Speaker's Race: Criminals and Secrets
Sat, 01/06/2007 - 10:15am
There was a dearth of news yesterday until late in the afternoon, when all sorts of things started happening, not the least of which being this story about Representative Lon Burnam filing a criminal complaint against Tom Craddick with Travis County DA Ronnie Earle. Vince from Capitol Annex has the letter.
Speaker's Race: Other Possibilities
Fri, 01/05/2007 - 2:27pm
After having some hours to turn yesterday's press conference over in my mind, I wanted to return to it for a sort of pre-weekend summation of the whole deal. It has been suggested to me by a few sources that while what I'm saying is possible, there are other things that could be going on that I'm not fully considering, so I will do so here:
Speaker's Race Coverage: Confusion Abounds
Fri, 01/05/2007 - 8:58am
If you're going to have a press conference in which you say you definitely have the votes to do a thing, the guy who just endorsed you probably shouldn't say that some of those votes "are not ready to be on [y]our list."
A Very Merry Un-Press Conference
Thu, 01/04/2007 - 5:28pm
Oh man, Craddick is getting ready to crack skulls. According to several sources, Pitts and McCall showed up at their press conference to announce that they are totally going to win now that they are consolidating their pledges into one easy payment, but they wouldn't want to trouble anyone by releasing a list of names.
"In the lead, in the lead!"
Thu, 01/04/2007 - 3:45pm
Today Nancy Pelosi, Representative from California, addressed the 110th Congress for the first time as Speaker of the House. She announced that she was accepting the gavel as speaker "in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship." This was following the statements made by the new Republican minority leader John A. Boehner, a Representative from Ohio, that the gavel and position were "on loan from the American people."
The Value of Getting Along
Thu, 01/04/2007 - 11:59am
While it's been getting more play on cable news than in print, there are few who pay attention to politics that haven't heard about the press conference yesterday after a House Democratic Caucus meeting. Cindy Sheehan and several protesters shouted down Rahm Emmanuel as he began to address reporters on Capitol Hill, laying bare a growing divide that some wish weren't quite so public.
Thursday morning Roundup
Thu, 01/04/2007 - 4:18am
I'm still waiting to see if Craddick is done. Pitts is going to tell everyone he's managed to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat and scrounged enough votes together, and that now he will be Speaker and McCall will get some sort of shiny committee appointment(s), or possibly a pony.
It's the Pitts
Wed, 01/03/2007 - 6:02pm
In a final update on the Speaker's race for today, it seems as if some sort of deal has been struck. Rather than Pitts endorsing early bird McCall, it seems as if the opposite will happen and a voting bloc consolidation will occur as a result. Statesman has the story.
Texas Democrats Move On Up in Congress
Wed, 01/03/2007 - 3:21pm
As the Democrats take over Congress, there are some members from Texas who will be wielding some of the newly-obtained power or are in a position to make some moves this session.