Former Victoria County GOP Chairman Michael Cloud will be filling the vacancy in the 27th Congressional District. Disgraced Congressman Blake Farenthold resigned from his seat amid sexual harassment charges in 2014 and the $84,000 tax-funded settlement. Once...
Perhaps the most unique special election from a long series of 2017-18 irregular voting contests just wrapped up this weekend in southeast Texas, capping a subdued political battle that attracted little national attention. Former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus...
Nine candidates are seeking the congressional seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold (R–Corpus Christi), with Michael Cloud as the Republican front-runner in the June 30 special election. On April 6, Farenthold abruptly resigned his seat in Texas’ 27th...
Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) sponsored an amendment to reduce the salary of an out of control bureaucrat to $1. The amendment would have reinstated the 19th Century Holman Rule, which Democrats rescinded in 1983 when they held the majority. The...
Episode 33: Tony McDonald discusses the latest from around Texas with Michael Quinn Sullivan, Charles Blain, and Jacob Asmussen. Capitol Bureau chief Brandon Waltens breaks down the upcoming race for Speaker of the Texas House in this week’s interview,...
Disgraced former congressman Blake Farenthold has a new job at the taxpayers’ expense: he’s the new “legislative liaison” for the Calhoun Port Authority in Port Lavaca. Farenthold resigned from Congress in disgrace in April, following...
In a recently penned open letter to disgraced former Congressman Blake Farenthold, Governor Greg Abbott is calling on Farenthold to pay up. Abbott tweeted out the following: RT to tell Blake Farenthold to pay for the special election that had to be called to fill the...
Following the abrupt resignation of disgraced former Congressman Blake Farenthold, Gov. Greg Abbott announced this week that the special election to fill that seat would be held on June 30th, 2018. The candidate filing deadline would be April 27th. Farenthold...
Four-term Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus Christi), who had shelved his plan to run for re-election well before the March 6th state primary largely due to details stemming from a sexual harassment settlement, abruptly resigned from the House on Friday. Mr....
Congressional Republicans and Democrats actively colluded last week to spend even more of your money in Washington, D.C. in the omnibus funding bill. The swamp has declared war on taxpayers. It is sickening to think that the Democrats got more spending out of a...
A budget-busting, bipartisan spending binge passed Congress last week, so I’d like to propose a topic for this week’s Texas Congressional Delegation luncheon: What is each Texan’s oversight and legislative plan to shrink the number of federal...
A growing chorus of congressional Republicans are calling for the release of a top secret four-page memo that allegedly details rampant abuse of foreign surveillance tools for political purposes by the Obama administration. However, most Texas congressmen have so far...
Yet another House member announced yesterday that he will not seek re-election due to reverberations from sexual impropriety incidents. Texas four-term Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus Christi), after filing for re-election on December 4th, decided not to continue his...
Reports from Washington, DC, are that US Rep. Blake Farenthold won’t seek re-election. He was first elected in 2010. BREAKING: Republicans say Texas GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold won’t seek re-election amid sexual harassment allegations. — AP Politics (@AP_Politics)...
In Swamp Country, there is a fight between Obama appointee Leandra English and President Trump to lead the bureaucratic, inefficient, and unconstitutional Consumer Financial Protection Board. (I’ve previously stated we should get rid of all unconstitutional...
Texas’ delegation to the US House voted down party lines for the historic tax cut on Thursday. Authored by US Rep. Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands) who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, the measure is designed to lower rates and simplify the federal tax code. On this...
The president of Empower Texans and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility recently sent an open letter to Texas’ congressional delegation asking them to stop the health insurance tax from taking effect on Jan. 1, 2018. The text of the letter can be found below....
The Islamic terrorist responsible for the deadly truck attack in New York City this week had gained entry to the United States through the “Diversity Visa Lottery” program. Created by the late US Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), the program distributes visas to...
Early last week, the three-judge federal panel considering the Texas redistricting lawsuit issued a ruling, one that contained a rather major surprise. It was expected that Reps. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus Christi) and Lloyd Doggett’s (D-Austin) districts would...
The special three-judge panel considering Texas redistricting, which long ago declared the state’s 35th Congressional District as a racial gerrymander, issued a ruling earlier this week that contains re-drawing deadlines. Early in the decade the panel declared...
