One headline Tuesday night read "Blue Hopes Drowned by a Sea of Read", another "Democrats fail miserably in attempt to turn Texas blue". Yes, for the first time in this century Texas has a new governor and it is Greg Abbott. Big change or not? There will be a big...
Pratt on Texas
Why I’m voting “NO” on Proposition 1
I left out my thoughts on Texas Constitutional Amendment, Proposition 1, in my earlier election recommendations. Listener Club member Gary wrote to me “Do you have a recommendation on Proposition 1? I am having trouble finding any information on it outside [my trade...
Wendy Davis leapfrogging abortion to sympathy?
Fellow radio host Mark Davis, penned a column about Wendy Davis and her woe-is-me book she is out promoting as she runs for Texas governor. "As with every book of its type and timing, from Democrats and Republicans alike, every word is intended to make every reader...
Charles Perry handily wins SD28 seat, now to HD83
With a commanding lead in early voting numbers across the 51-county district, Pratt on Texas called the race for Charles Perry early Tuesday evening. Charles Perry handily bested his five competitors winning more than 53% of the vote with second-place finisher Jodey...
Crux of Gov. Perry indictment begs credulity of the ignorant
If Texans set aside their credulity, as some are asking us to do, and take seriously the impartiality and legal purity of the special prosecutor in the case of Governor Rick Perry they will then be judging a rather odd interpretation of law related to an executive...
Democrat is right, there is a difference with Hegar & the GOP
"Democratic comptroller nominee Mike Collier says GOP rival Glenn Hegar bragged to a tea party interviewer last year that he was proud of the Legislature’s 2011 budget cuts to public schools. Collier... said it’s “embarrassing and unacceptable” that Hegar “takes pride...
What “they” have is no justification for local spending
When children and adolescents come to mom and pop with the idea that they need something such as a newer smart phone, car, videogame, etc. with a prime argument being that such is necessary to them because others have similar, a good, decent and wise parent...
Conservatives win in Texas, that’s hardly a Tea Party takeover
What didn’t happen Tuesday night in the GOP runoffs: The Tea Party didn’t “takeover” Texas despite the Associated Press claiming such. An AP report that I actually first saw in the British press had a section titled: TEA PARTY TAKEOVER “The tea party still rules...
Beaumont ISD officials need friends like UT has in Austin
On Monday I brought listeners the news that the TEA had taken over scandal plagued Beaumont ISD. Jon Cassidy, writing at Watchdog.org, had a piece Tuesday that well documents just how bad the situation is and how even the Federal Department of Justice has played a...
Conservatives are the Texas GOP mainstream
It’s April Fool Day which leads many to ask: Isn’t everyday fools day these days? It certainly is in the Texas political press and the problem isn’t so much that certain writers are trying to fool you but that those writers are fools themselves because of their chosen...