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Seven Wasn’t Gary Gates’ Lucky Number, Will he Lose Eight Campaigns in a Row?
If rumors swirling around Austin are accurate, Texans’ mailboxes and radios could one again be inundated with messages from a man increasingly desperate to hold elected office. Roughly a year after running a multimillion dollar campaign for Railroad Commissioner—and...
Dallas Voters Will Decide the Fate of Failing Bus Agency
A failing bus bureaucracy’s fate now rests in the hands of voters. Gov. Greg Abbott signed two bills last week that call for scandal-plagued Dallas County Schools to be abolished unless county residents vote to keep the tax-subsidized agency open – assuming it doesn’t...
Denton ISD Orders September Election to Raise Taxes
Denton’s school board voted this week to raise property taxes for the 2016-17 school year – an increase that voters will have to approve in a September election. At their June 13 board meeting, Denton Independent School District trustees unanimously approved a tax...
Jim Barnes: Mr. Conservative Constitutionalist
“When someone wants to make sure the job gets done, they call me,” says Jim Barnes. Jim Barnes’ first impression of Texas was in 1965, but the weather is what kept him returning throughout the years. A physics graduate from Michigan State University, Barnes was...
Party of Hate?
Our nation was rocked this week by the attempted assassination of a large group of Republican lawmakers and their staff. Zack Barth, a Texan who works as an aide to Texas’ Roger Williams, was wounded in the attack. The would-be assassin was a left-wing activist who...
GOP To TxLege: Grassroots Ready For Special Session
Fresh off winning the chairmanship of the Republican Party of Texas, James Dickey sent public letters to the leaders of the House and Senate with a simple message: the Republican grassroots are ready for the special session. “Many of the items included in Governor...
Montgomery County Officials Defy Republican Party, Support Tolls
Local citizens are outraged after county officials approved a resolution supporting the SH 249 extension, also known as the “Aggie Toll Road.” Montgomery County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 in support of paying for the road with millions in revenue bonds backed by...
Straus Incites Senate Challengers at TASB Meeting
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus may be putting his own lieutenants at risk by violating an unwritten rule of Capitol politics. In a speech to the Texas Association of School Boards, Straus grabbed headlines when he bemoaned Gov. Abbott’s robust conservative agenda for...
Straus Calls Abbott Agenda “Horse Manure”
Speaking to a gaggle of educrats and lobbyists Wednesday, House Speaker Joe Straus showed his contempt for conservative reforms and Gov. Greg Abbott, calling the governor’s agenda for the upcoming special session “horse manure.” Earlier this month, Abbott announced he...