TXU keeps threatening people. It threatened to shut down coal plants if they got fined earlier this month, and now it comes out that it threatened litigation against another group attempting to make a bid to buy TXU. The Star-Telegram has the story, and I have some advice: PR is something that must be managed, guys. Plant some trees or something.

On the last day of March, the Epilepsy Foundation of America concluded its first annual ‘Walk for Epilepsy’. Theoretically, I should have been one of their biggest supporters; after all, I am a politically conscious person with epilepsy.

To a source no less than David Letterman and in a venue no smaller than national television, Senator Barack Obama refuted my recent musings as to whether he might be thinking of the Vice Presidency as a contingency. I had pondered the question here, and I am more convinced of my original impression than before Obama's Letterman appearance. Even though it's not an unusual question, I think it signifies trouble on horseback for Letterman to ask it.

Senator Van de Putte introduced SB 601 and 602. These bills arduously restrict the activities of labor organizations that represent peace officers when and if the labor organization accepts state funding.

SB 602 prohibits a labor organization that represents peace officers from: 1) establishing a political committee, 2) assisting a political committee in performing political activities, and 3) making political contributions or political expenditures IF the labor organization accepts a grant or appropriated money from a state agency.

Harvey Kronberg has a Buzz™ out that Ben Barnes is being recruited to run for Senate against John Cornyn. Apparently, in recent days there was a meeting of what Kronberg calls "Democratic muckety-mucks" who lobbied Barnes to consider becoming a candidate. Something to think about is found in the Quorum Report subtitle for the story, which was, "Fund raising would not be the issue."

I have had vague suspicions that the rock star antics of many primary candidates may play differently in different areas, and this excellent article shows us that Iowa may be a state where Big Timing can backfire.

In the paper this morning, read all about it: proof that Senate Democrats are proactively engaging in message control, in a way that just might work.

For this Easter installment of On The Record, I spoke with Brian Pendleton, a Regional Field Director for the Democratic National Committee and the Texas Democratic Party.

During my search for mass transit-accessible entry level jobs suitable for somebody with a graduate education but not much paid employment outside of a college campus, I volunteered in several campaign offices. I was attempting to build up both my business skills and job-placement connections.

President Bush is demanding Congress “come off their vacation” to get their Iraq spending bill to his desk so he can veto it. Yet, has the President ever come off his vacation since invading Iraq four years ago? As disastrously as Bush’s Iraq war has devolved, the evidence inevitably points to no.