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Artists' Studio Bringing Culture to B-CS By Cassie Smith From the Bryan-College Station Eagle It's not just a studio where art is created or a gallery for visitors to stroll through. Downtown Bryan's new artBAC is a working artist studio. An assortment of artwork hangs from the walls while artists carry out their craft. People pop in and out of the gallery to buy, observe and learn. Col...
Left of College Station - 5:06 a.m. - 3 clicks 
Perry has nothing to stand on, so he literally stood on a chair in a restaurant. He cannot defend what he and his insurance buddies did with insurance rates in Texas. He promised less regulation of his insurance industry would lead to more competition and lower rates. Instead we now pay the 2nd highest rates in the nation. (last year we were number 1). Notice how Perry ducks (not chickens) ...
Bay Area Houston Blog - 2:42 a.m. - 4 clicks
I'm writing from Berlin, which I'm finding to be just a fabulous city, but while I'm waiting on the missus this morning I thought I'd share with Grits readers a conversation I had yesterday with a German cop about DWIs. There's a LOT of drinking in Berlin, where locals and tourists alike definitely enjoy their beer, generally a half-liter at a time. But according to the officer I spoke to, t...
Grits for Breakfast - 12:44 a.m. - 3 clicks
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has been keeping up with the economic news that corporate executive salaries and compensation are way out of line, especially when compared to the salaries of workers in the same company. And it does not seem to matter whether those executives are successful or not. Those who oversee company failures make millions of dollars -- even the ones who ...
jobsanger - Wed 10:47 p.m. - 3 clicks
[Better late than....] The Texas Progressive Alliance sure hopes that Harris County has a disaster recovery plan for the loss of its voting machines as it brings you this week's blog roundup. Off the Kuff had three more interviews this week, with State Reps. Armando Walle, Ellen Cohen, and Kristi Thibaut. Meet Jeff "The Trucker" Evans, an unemployed 49-year-old whose unemployment benefits were ...
Texas Kaos - Wed 9:21 p.m. - 4 clicks
The video prominently features a quote from Perry where he says that someone just "reached up to the air" to come up with the $18 billion number. PolitiFact Texas took on Rick Perry's claim that the $18 billion budget gap was something that someone "just reached up to the air and grabbed" -- it was False. A new campaign spot from the folks at Bill White for Texas addresses a very large bu...
Local Texans - Wed 8:05 p.m. - 3 clicks
It’s not what you say, but what you do that counts. A friend told me that recently and its truth keeps on echoing around me. In the last legislative session, the State House and State Senate, in reacting to the tragic loss of life when a Beaumont chartered school bus overturned on the way to a soccer match, passed a law that allocated $10 million to reimburse school districts who pay for th...
Half Empty - Wed 4:43 p.m. - 5 clicks
The Republican Party of Texas is making it their mission for Republicans to hide from voters and refuse to debate. We know all about Rick Chicken Perry -- take a look at all the ads around BOR if you don't. But Republicans have decided to refuse to debate up and down the ticket now, only ensuring that their candidates will be seen as cowards who are unwilling to face the voters an...
Burnt Orange Report - Wed 4:42 p.m. - 3 clicks
This week on Biased Transmission our studio guest is Cody Marx Bailey, the co-founder of SMUT: Subversive Manifesto for Underground Technology. Our topics of conversation will include the genesis of SMUT, upcoming speakers at SMUT (including our own Michael Alvard and Srikanth Sastry), and the future of SMUT. Listen to Biased Transmission every Wednesday on 89.1FM KEOS College Station-Bryan f...
Left of College Station - Wed 4:01 p.m. - 5 clicks
Infamous Court Case Exposes Racial Bias in Judicial System in Pre-Civil Rights Era August 4, 2010-Houston- Critically acclaimed author Alex Heard will discuss his new book, "The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South," on Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. at the University of Houston's Rockwell Pavilion in the M.D. Anderson Library. "The ca...
Texas Death Penalty - Wed 3:08 p.m. - 6 clicks
To: Rick Perry From: Your Fundraising Team Governor, since you continue to struggle in your fundraising efforts against the superior fundraising prowess of Bill White, let's explore this idea . ...
Letters From Texas - Wed 6:46 a.m. - 9 clicks
At first the reports read that Obama, while visitng El Paso's Fort Bliss yesterday, had turned down Perry's request to meet the president and discuss border security... The Republican governor's spokeswoman said Perry's request for a presidential meeting to discuss border security was rebuffed. According to Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger, White House aides said the president would not...
Brains and Eggs - Wed 4:28 a.m. - 6 clicks
Film Presents Case for Innocence of Texas Death Row Inmate Rodney Reed The documentary film “State vs. Reed”, directed by Ryan Polomski and Frank Bustoz, will be screened at Cherrywood Coffeehouse, 1400 E. 38 ½ Street in Austin, on Friday September 3 at 8 PM. The 60-minute film documents the questionable murder conviction of Bastrop resident Rodney Reed for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stit...
Texas Moratorium Network - Wed 2:08 a.m. - 8 clicks
Here's the skinny on Talking Points Memo publisher Josh Marshall's latest case of Obama suck-up-itis: (O)nce you get past the simple fact that the terrible unemployment rate has a lot to do with the Dems' awful electoral prospects, it's very hard to make any definitive statements about why they're struggling. There are numerous theories, many of which are plausible, but very few of which have...
SocraticGadfly - Wed 12:29 a.m. - 6 clicks
Republican State Rep. David Swinford, House District 87 representative from the Texas Panhandle, had already announced that he would not run for re-election. He did not run in his party's primary last Spring and was set to retire when his term expired in January. He will be replaced by either Democrat Abel Bosquez, Republican Walter Price IV, or Libertarian James Hudspeth. But those doll...
jobsanger - Wed 12:29 a.m. - 5 clicks
The traditional story has been that Iran's 1953 prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, was overthrown by a CIA coup after beginning to nationalize foreign oil companies. Not so fast. In Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited, Darioush Bayandor says Shi'ite clerics, including the mentor of the future Ayatollah Ruhollah Khoumeni, were responsible. On August 15, 1953, the CIA did, indeed...
SocraticGadfly - Tue 10:40 p.m. - 5 clicks
Here is a posting offered up by Harris County, Texas Judge Executive Ed Emmett on his campaign related Facebook page yesterday evening— “Early voting starts in just 9 weeks. Bev Kaufman, our County Clerk, and her staff are doing a great job responding to the disaster of losing our voting machines in a fire. Too [...] ...
TexasLiberal - Tue 8:22 p.m. - 7 clicks
I want to encourage readers to vote on the PPP website for them to poll Texas this week. http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/ Thanks ...
Local Texans - Tue 7:24 p.m. - 7 clicks
Tomorrow (Sep. 1, 2010), the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) will present its Legislative Appropriations Request for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 to the Budget, Planning and Policy Division of the Governor's Office and to the Legislative Budget Board. The Hearing will take place from 9:00 am - 10:30 am in the Capitol Extension, Room E2.028 . Public comments will be permitted. ...
Grits for Breakfast - Tue 4:00 p.m.
A state appeals court in Dallas has rejected a lower court’s decision that two gay men who married in Massachusetts had the right to divorce in Texas. In October 2009, state District Judge Tena Callahan ruled that the men could legally end their marriage and that the state’s prohibition against same-sex marriage violates the federal constitutional right to equal protection. But today, the ...
Brains and Eggs - Tue 3:22 p.m. - 4 clicks
Recently, I learned about a good website that tracks the flow of corporate energy money in Congress. The website is a great tool for someone who is interested in knowing who gets what from who and if you are a Texan you will get to see your state initials in many places in the website. [...] ...
TexasVOX: Public Citizen - Tue 2:45 p.m. - 4 clicks
From the campaign: A solution to excessive centralization, special interest power in Austin HOUSTON -- Bill White today called for gubernatorial term limits. "Texas needs term limits to avoid excessive centralization of power in Austin and the use of power by special interests to entrench a governor in office," said Bill White, in supporting a referendum on whether to limit the governor...
Local Texans - Tue 12:11 p.m. - 6 clicks
The polling firm Public Policy Polling is taking a survey of where their readers would like to have a new poll -- and Texas is one of them. We've been inundated with Rasmussen polls for months. Let's get some more diverse information on the state of the Governor's race in Texas -- vote here to cast your vote for a new poll in Texas ! ...
Burnt Orange Report - Tue 10:44 a.m. - 6 clicks
The Koch brothers. A work in bloated and unbridled greed. And anarchist wannabees. I betcha that except for GOP minority leaders and Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and FOX Fake News, most members of the Republican tea party wing has no clue that it has major billionaire exploiters, puppeteers and ventriloquists that pull its strings, yank its chains and grows "frogs" called ...
Burnt Orange Report - Tue 10:44 a.m. - 6 clicks
Ed. note: For those who are interested, the Bill White campaign will be hosting an ethics-filled, anti-lobbyist ball next Thursday at the same time of Perry's fundraiser. If you're here in Austin, sign-up online -- it will be Thursday, September 2, from 5:30pm to 8:30pm at the same campaign headquarters where the chicken suit first debuted . Bill White called for gubern...
Burnt Orange Report - Tue 9:05 a.m. - 9 clicks
A&M Gives Notices to Lecturers By Vimal Patel From the Bryan-College Station Eagle Walter Daugherity, a 24-year Texas A&M senior lecturer with a Harvard doctorate, knew his job could be cut, but it still was jarring to be called into his boss's office last week. "I assumed it would be about the budget reduction," he said about the meeting with his department head, "but it was sti...
Left of College Station - Tue 6:30 a.m. - 6 clicks
Ed. note: The following is a documented account of the Texas Youth Commission cover-up scandal that broke in 2007. On Tuesday, August 24, the Austin American-Statesman reported that sexual abuse and cover-up continue to plague the Texas Youth Commission : Nearly four years after the Texas Youth Commission was overhauled after a sex abuse and cover-up scandal, four leading adv...
Burnt Orange Report - Tue 6:29 a.m. - 7 clicks
This is disturbing. (as if torching 10,000 voting machines isn't enough) One of the groups working with our selected Harris County Voter Registrar, Leo Vasquez, to harass those who are registering voters, not only has an address which is the same as the Rick Perry Campaign, but they are now running advertisements via youtube, with doctored video. The video shows an Black lady with the sign "I...
Bay Area Houston Blog - Tue 6:29 a.m. - 10 clicks
If you've read this blog for long then you know that I don't vote for Republicans. Just like my father and grandfather, I have never voted for a Republican in my life and I expect when my life is over that could still be said about me. I certainly wouldn't mar that record by voting for a right-wing nut like Rick Perry. But that doesn't mean I have to vote for whatever candidate the Democ...
jobsanger - Mon 11:24 p.m. - 7 clicks
I got a safety inspection and emissions check today. The State of Texas mandates that cars get a safety inspection and that cars in high pollution counties get an emissions test. Government has the right to mandate people to do things in order to serve the public good. Government has that right even in Texas. [...] ...
TexasLiberal - Mon 8:08 p.m. - 12 clicks
The Texas Progressive Alliance sure hopes that Harris County has a disaster recovery plan for the loss of its voting machines as it brings you this week's blog roundup. Off the Kuff had three more interviews this week, with State Reps. Armando Walle , Ellen Cohen , and Kristi Thibaut . Meet Jeff "The Trucker" Evans, an unemployed 49-year-old whose unemployment benefits were restored by ...
Left of College Station - Mon 7:10 p.m. - 10 clicks
From the Conroe Courier News: "THE WOODLANDS - Montgomery County Democrats officially kicked off their fall 2010 election season Saturday. Democrats came together to raise funds and discuss all the poignant issues for upcoming statewide elections. “At Austin, the Republican majority is in both houses. We don’t have any Democrats,” said Adrienne Cadik, chairwoman of the Montgomery Co...
Local Texans - Mon 4:43 p.m. - 8 clicks
Mondays, 6pm - 7pm EST ----- WRFG-Atlanta 89.3 FM http://www.wrfg.org/features/ shows/shows-desc.asp?showid=36 Join us tonight for an update on the case of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis, whom many now believe to be innocent of the crime for which he is on death row, i.e. the killing of Savannah police officer Mark McPhail. Davis has been spared fro...
Texas Death Penalty - Mon 4:43 p.m. - 7 clicks
The Texas Progressive Alliance sure hopes that Harris County has a disaster recovery plan for the loss of its voting machines as it brings you this week’s blog roundup. Off the Kuff had three more interviews this week, with State Reps. Armando Walle, Ellen Cohen, and Kristi Thibaut. Meet Jeff “The Trucker” Evans, an unemployed [...]...
Three Wise Men - Mon 1:42 p.m. - 7 clicks
Some great points from the director of Environmental Defense Fund’s Texas Regional Office (and Energy Program), Jim Marston. If you’re concerned about government spending, consolidating existing efficiency programs and oversight into one agency has the potential to reduce overlap and redundancy in government and create more opportunities for consumers and businesses to save money. Appe...
TexasVOX: Public Citizen - Mon 9:05 a.m. - 11 clicks
The Texas Progressive Alliance sure hopes that Harris County has a disaster recovery plan for the loss of its voting machines as it brings you this week's blog roundup. (There's an emergency commissioner's meeting on the topic scheduled for this afternoon that I will attend and report on.) Off the Kuff had three more interviews this week, with state representatives. Armando Walle , Ellen Co...
Brains and Eggs - Mon 6:24 a.m. - 8 clicks
I was driving around Houston a few days back when I encountered this public toilet. Maybe it was a commentary on society. Here is a website dedicated to public toilets. Here is a history of public toilets from PlumbingWorld.com. ...
TexasLiberal - Sun 11:23 p.m. - 5 clicks
-- Five years since Katrina hit New Orleans. You can read my previous takes as the event unfolded at the top of the August 2005 archives , and from 9/05, some accounts from the Astrodome as evacuation center , Katrina's evacuees and Houston by the numbers , the days before Katrina we spent at Camp Casey , my own Astrodome volunteering experience (as well as dining at Brennan's a few days lat...
Brains and Eggs - Sun 7:05 p.m. - 13 clicks
Rick Perry’s Bomb about Bombs: Perry Lies or He Doesn’t Know Where the Border Lies – In an interview about border security, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told Fox News that bombs exploded in El Paso. “You’ve got bullets hitting the city hall in El Paso. You’ve got bombs exploding in El Paso,” said Perry. [...]...
The WAWG Blog - Sun 6:25 p.m. - 8 clicks
Rick Perry: University Regents Jobs Open to the Highest Bidders – Over the past decade, the men and women chosen by Rick Perry to serve as regents of the state’s universities have given his campaigns a total of at least $5.8 million, according to a Texas Tribune analysis. Using the Texas Tribune’s data application, [...]...
The WAWG Blog - Sun 6:08 p.m. - 8 clicks
Friday saw the appearance on the Texas Tribune’s website a list of 21 state house races to watch. Ones where an incumbent was at risk to some extent or another. It’s an interesting read. It breaks down 21 races into 3 categories, one where an incumbent being beat is likely, ones where it’s a toss-up, and ones where unseating an incumbent is possible. It would seem that the governing r...
Half Empty - Sun 10:43 a.m. - 9 clicks
Above you see a picture of the offerings at the King Street Patriots Tea Party press conference that I attended two day ago. There were cookies and water. But no tea. I wish there had been a Long Island Iced Tea. I did have a cookie. I attended this press conference to learn about Tea [...] ...
TexasLiberal - Sun 9:45 a.m. - 11 clicks
After reorganization, investigation, firing most of the staff, bringing in a 'reform minded, progressive administrator, TYC remains at the middle of a storm of controversy. Texas Youth Commission still plagued with problems, advocacy groups say In a formal complaint asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate, Texas Appleseed, Advocacy Inc., the Center for Public Representation and t...
Texas Kaos - Sun 8:07 a.m. - 8 clicks
Since Rick Perry has been in office home insurance rates have soared. Perry and State Representative Larry Taylor have carried the industry's jock strap for the last 10 years leaving us with the highest rates in the nation with little if any effective oversight. I remember when Perry issued a press release in 2002 just before the election: "In too many cases, homeowner's insurance is getting m...
Bay Area Houston Blog - Sun 8:06 a.m. - 11 clicks
From the Houston Chronicle : The fire destroyed 10,000 pieces of equipment, including voting machines and devices called judge's booth controllers that dispense four-digit access codes to voters and serve as mobile ballot boxes to tabulate the count at the end of Election Day. How Convenient. How convenient for Governor Rick Perry and the Harris County republican party. This fire wh...
Bay Area Houston Blog - Sun 6:26 a.m. - 19 clicks
The silly (and unconstitutional) opposition to the building of a muslim community center in New York City has been hogging the headlines for the last couple of weeks. But it is far from the only religious intolerance happening in the United States. It seems that right-wing "christians" have decided that an American citizen cannot be a good patriotic American unless he/she is a christian. ...
jobsanger - Sat 10:08 p.m. - 10 clicks
The Koch brothers. A work in bloated and unbridled greed. And anarchist wannabees. I betcha that except for GOP minority leaders and Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and FOX Fake News, most members of the Republican tea party wing has no clue that it has major billionaire exploiters, puppeteers and ventriloquists that pull its strings, yank its chains and grows "frogs" called GOP/tea party ...
Texas Kaos - Sat 8:49 p.m. - 14 clicks
Well, the entirety of Harris County's voting equipment - every single e-slate and the machines that assign codes to voters - were destroyed in a fire yesterday. Ten thousand pieces of equipment worth $30 million. The genius Republicans in charge of protecting the vote had all of their election assets stored in one place, and it's all been reduced to ashes . . .and we start early voting on Oct. 18 ...
Musings - Sat 11:27 a.m. - 14 clicks
Burn up the voting machines. It really can’t get more obvious than this, can it? 52 days before Early Voting starts for this pivotal 2010 midterm election, Harris County, one of the most populous counties in the state of Texas, representing 15% of those who vote in elections, lost each and every one of their Hart InterCivic eSlate voting machines in a warehouse fire on Friday . The fir...
Half Empty - Sat 10:43 a.m. - 14 clicks
oes this surprise you? Big John, the reported reasonable conservative, again got overtaken by Whack Job John, the tea party panderer type, only to now back off again . If the teabaggers maintain enough strength, he's going to get a primary challenger next time around, don't doubt it. There is no god and I am his prophet. ...
SocraticGadfly - Sat 12:21 a.m. - 11 clicks
Hello everyone! It’s Ana Yáñez-Correa again. Just wanted to share with all of you a new link we created on TCJC's Public Policy Center web page titled Legislative Budget Hearings that included some of the following below. The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (TJPC) presented its Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 to the Budget...
Grits for Breakfast - Fri 5:03 p.m. - 10 clicks
Human error appears to have caused a partial shutdown last Friday at the South Texas Project, one of the state’s two nuclear plants. Last week, prices spiked in the wholesale electricity market. On Monday the 16th, wholesale electricity, which had been selling for less than $30 per megawatt-hour spiked to more than $2,000. That’s an increase [...] ...
TexasVOX: Public Citizen - Fri 4:10 p.m. - 7 clicks
Live downwind from the Barnett Shale ? The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality posted an interactive map of the Barnett Shale on its website that allows you to see the latest data from the various air quality monitoring sites near natural gas drilling and pipeline facilities. Be forwarned however that the information contained on this website is [...] ...
TexasVOX: Public Citizen - Fri 3:45 p.m. - 14 clicks
Rival press conferences were held today in Downtown Houston as details continue to emerge about what appears to be a campaign of suppression and intimidation against poor and minority voters by conservatives in Houston and Harris County, Texas. One press conference was held by the non-partisan voter registration group Houston Votes, while the other was [...] ...
TexasLiberal - Fri 3:10 p.m. - 12 clicks
Bill White called for prior approval for increases in homeowners insurance rates yesterday, as he visited the homes of Texans who have seen their rates increase for years with no explanation as to why. Governor Rick Perry, when asked about his plan for homeowners insurance rates, ran away from cameras -- continuing his campaign's policy of ducking the hard questions at every turn....
Burnt Orange Report - Fri 1:08 p.m. - 7 clicks
While Rick Perry continues to duck a debate with Bill White, Greg Abbott apparently delegates those decisions to his staff. So while BAR waits for Abbott's people to decide whether he's a chicken or not, White prepares to debate the governor in absentia . The Austin American-Statesman and the state's other major newspapers will host a gubernatorial debate event this fall, even if just one c...
Brains and Eggs - Fri 11:46 a.m. - 9 clicks
Here's our open letter to Governor Perry, in which we stand by our full-page ad that ran in over 24 newspapers this week, calling him out on his cowardice in not facing Texan voters: August 26, 2010 Office of the Governor P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711-2428 Dear Governor Perry: It comes as no surprise that you chose to hide behind surrogates to respond to the ad we rec...
Burnt Orange Report - Fri 9:28 a.m. - 11 clicks
It's where the voting machines are stored . Firefighters are battling a three-alarm blaze at a northeast Houston warehouse that stores the majority of voting equipment in Houston and Harris County, according to HFD. The Harris County Election Technologies Center, located on Canino at Downey, caught fire around 4:20 this morning, quickly growing to three-alarms. The wa...
Brains and Eggs - Fri 8:48 a.m. - 14 clicks
While I've been detached from the online world, Stace Medellin and Charles Kuffner and Neil Aquino have updated this week's most significant election-related story. Stace with his dos centavos first ... Perhaps the appointed and losing candidate for Tax Assessor-Collector Leo Vasquez is doing one last favor for his Republican Party . Yes, the same Republican Party which abandoned him...
Brains and Eggs - Fri 8:48 a.m. - 13 clicks
A lesson on how to show you aren't a serious, qualified, or legitimate candidate, have your staff endorse your opponent. Apparently if you know and work with Stefani Carter, it only makes you want to support Democratic incumbent Carol Kent even more. The Dallas Morning has the blurb here . Republican Stefani Carter, a lawyer at the Sayles Werbner law firm in Dallas, won't have the ...
Burnt Orange Report - Fri 6:27 a.m. - 10 clicks
Ron Carlson speaking to Houston media at a press conference on August 16, 2010, the day before Peter Cantu became the 463rd person executed by Texas since 1982. Cantu was executed for his part in the murders of two teenage girls, Jennifer Ertman (14) and Elizabeth Peña (16), who attended Waltrip High School in Houston and were walking home alone one night in 1993. The girls were gang raped, ...
Texas Moratorium Network - Thu 10:46 p.m. - 9 clicks
As I wrote yesterday, Harris County Tax Assessor Collector Leo Vasquez is harassing the Houston Votes voter registration drive so that many among the poor, the young, and in our Hispanic community may be denied the right to vote. Mr. Vasquez is working in tandem with local Tea Party groups. This despite the fact that [...] ...
TexasLiberal - Thu 10:23 p.m. - 11 clicks
I’ll have more to say about the AFIIG Immigration Forum on the show tomorrow, but I want to get a few thoughts down before I crash for the night. 1) Lubbock Bishop Placido Rodriguez had the words of wisdom to guide us through our immigration reform discussion: remember to put a face on it. Recognizing [...]...
Lubbock Left - Thu 10:23 p.m. - 14 clicks
Rick Perry’s Habitual Secret Keeping – As you probably know, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s schedule for the first six months of 2010 showed an average of seven hours of state work per week and 38 weekdays with “no state scheduled events.” In the absence of such records, there’s no objective way of knowing what [...]...
The WAWG Blog - Thu 8:26 p.m. - 12 clicks
The number of the indigent patients being seen at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston has been cut drastically. These cuts have been mandated by the University of Texas Board of Regents and by the Texas State Legislature. From the Houston Chronicle— “UTMB has been edging out of the charity care business for [...] ...
TexasLiberal - Thu 5:46 p.m. - 13 clicks
A couple of readers emailed from across the pond to say things appear to be blowing up yet again at the Texas Youth Commission (I can't leave you people alone for a minute!), particularly regarding alleged mistreatment of youth at units in Beaumont and Corsicana. Here are several notable MSM stories on the subject: Advocate: Abolishing TYC could be best fix , Texas Tribune Texas You...
Grits for Breakfast - Thu 4:40 p.m. - 9 clicks
Fred Lewis of Texans Together and Houston Votes fires back at Harris County Tax Assessor, Leo Vasquez. From the Houston Chronicle : "He is a disgrace," Lewis said of Vasquez. "We need to have the Justice Department come in and see what Mickey Mouse stuff he and his office are doing to suppress people." Houston Votes will be answering questions about Vasquez's claims of voter fraud at a pr...
Bay Area Houston Blog - Thu 3:22 p.m. - 14 clicks
