Spring means it’s bond season in Texas. May brings warmer weather and the opportunity to further indenture our posterity with wasteful school debt. For advocates of responsible financial stewardship by school districts, it is frustrating to see measures increasing...
Christopher Paxton
The Truth Discount
We recently reported on the unbelievably lopsided campaign spending between entrenched liberal incumbent, Senator Bob Deuell and grassroots activist, Bob Hall in the Republican primary race for Senate District 2. Also, we reported on how this massive spending...
David vs. Goliath
Despite long odds for his conservative challenger, liberal Republican State Senator Bob Deuell is in the fight of his political life. According to Texas Ethics Commission reports, Deuell astronomically outspent his conservative challenger, entrepreneur and Tea Party...
New faces, same old regime
With an exceptional number of Straus committee chairs retiring from the House, the recent Republican primary election saw a large amount of open seats in play. Conservatives were able to capture some of these open seats outright on election night. Other races are yet...
Even the dog is a Moderate
A new YouTube ad by left-leaning Republican State Representative candidate Steve Massengale should offend all voters who no longer watch Sesame Street recreationally. The deceptively child-like ad is a negative hit piece against conservative State Representative...
Update: Snowing in Texas 2, The Snowman Returns
Recently, we reported on a website and twitter account from a group calling themselves “Texans4Justice” [sic]. This website and twitter account are paid for by a trial lawyer-funded political action committee (PAC) known as the BalancePAC. This same BalancePAC is...
Snowing in Texas
Some political advertisements just don’t seem quite right. If you have been on Twitter lately, it is likely that you’ve come across a number of advertisements from an account calling for the removal and replacement of current Texas Supreme Court Justices Nathan Hecht,...
Sell Kel
Republican primary voters in Senate District 31 (SD 31) have good reason to be wary of supporting moderate Senator Kel Seliger: deep-pocketed, out-of-district, special interests. The same interest groups have filled Sen. Seliger’s campaign war chest to nearly $1.6...
The Incentive-Industrial Complex
It seems the State’s economic development marketing material needs an honesty makeover.
Davis Democrats for Massengale
Republicans should not be fooled by Massengale.