Off the Kuff interviewed four Democratic statewide candidates: Rep. Jon Rosenthal, Sen. Nathan Johnson, Clayton Tucker, and Sen. Sarah Eckhardt. (Your author wrote about Eckhardt yesterday and Tucker last week.)
SocraticGadfly, with author Jack Herrera providing his email on Twitter and asking for feedback, strongly critiqued and fact-checked Texas Monthly's piece on the Rio Grande water crisis, and got no response from Herrera — and, unsurprisingly, none from the Monthly, either. (Side note: Not for this reason, but others, no Monthly links this week; its updates since last week are meh.)
John Cornyn and a few other Republicans have condemned Bo French's latest racism. Too little, too late, especially since Strangeabbott was always in his corner and Dannie Goeb flip-flopped after he won the GOP primary for Railroad Commish.) Karl Rove said he's doing more than condemning, and voting for Democrat Joe Rosenthal.
Texas Supreme Court tosses out Galveston County's midsummer redistricting.
US Senate Majority Leader John Thune's Super PAC is finally dropping some money for Kenny Boy Paxton.
What the Trib calls "public pressure" other people would surely call "corporate pressure" as the PUC approves yet more 765 kV power lines. It does disclose its sponsors at the bottom, but doesn't disclose, as these lines are supposed to help the Awl Bidness, that it has pulled its punches there in the past.
Neil at the Houston Democracy Project noted that Mayor Whitmire & HPD changed city policy on mandatory investigation of shootings involving federal law enforcement not long after Trump started his 2nd term. Maybe this action had a part in Whitmire saying off the bat that the city had no role in the ICE killing of Salgado.
Paradise in Hell did a yard sign survey. (Your author's note: Yard signs mean little; Beto-Bob outnumbered Havana/Cancun/Calgary Ted by about the same ratio in certain areas. Plus, per the infamous Literary Digest poll, this is nowhere near scientific. The link even admits that, then tries to deny it admitted that. I leave it in part for the possible mocking should Talafreako lose to Kenny Boy.)
Laura Rodriguez considers a lesson she learned from 9/11.
City of Yes reflected on the absence of the Twin Towers.
The TSTA Blog finds no moral imperative to send public funds to private schools.
Chris Tackett documents the polling place closures ordered by the Republicans on Tarrant County Commissioners Court.
No comments:
Post a Comment