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Texas’ Supersized Superintendent Salaries Exposed
KEYE-TV has a revealing story tonight on excessive salaries paid to Texas superintendents, some of which are over $300,000. While the Texas Education Agency posts superintendents' base salary, one must look at the contracts to see the total compensation, which as the...
Maybe Wade Was Too Busy Suing Someone…
The Athens Review has a Q&A up with Wade Gent, the trial lawyer running against conservative champion Betty Brown. He may be a decent lawyer, but he apparently doesn't know much about the state legislature. Maybe he was too busy filing frivilous lawsuits to pay...
No Principles, Good At Any Price
In the race for House District 61, former Weatherford mayor Joe Tison told the Fort Worth Star Telegram today that “he would consider changing his position on any issue if he believed that a majority of his constituents felt differently.“ In short, Joe Tison believes...
Are Republicans Wasting Their Votes?
I have had a couple of conversations since early voting began yesterday with long-time Republican voters who are chosing to vote in the Democrat Primary. These Republicans are attempting to chose the candidate that they perceive is easier for Republicans to defeat in...
City of Denton Approves $81k in Taxpayer Money for Lobbying Against Taxpayers
The Denton Record-Chronicle reports today that the Denton City Council voted to renew its legislative lobbying contract with HillCo, which will cost taxpayers $81,000. The article notes: "HillCo consultants helped Denton with a variety of key issues in 2007, including...
An Endorsement That Wasn’t
Politicians are very careful about who and how they endorse, and how and who they don't. But apparently incumbent State Rep. Jerry Madden of Plano has been playing fast and loose with his endorsement list... And Attorney General Greg Abbott is rightly unamused. In a...
Stafford’s Stink
When liberal editorial page editors make endorsements, particularly in a Republican Primary, one has to expect to wear waders and a nose clip. But the Dallas Morning News' endorsement of Charles Stafford of Denton reeks of bad ideas that he apparently stunk up all by...
Haggerty the Benevolent
Nothing’s quite so distasteful in our democratic republic as an autocratic politician who demands that his every word and action be seen as benevolent kindness by those over whom he rules, er, represents. Such is the case with El Paso’s Pat Haggerty. Haggerty...
Texas GOP Primary Ballot to Include Spending Limitation Resolution
Texas Republican primary voters will weigh in on a non-binding resolution that asks whether state and local governments should be required to limit annual budget increases to the sum of the population growth and inflation rate. The measure is likely to pass...