Shuffling of Senate Chairs May Be Nod to Critics
Fresh off a bruising defeat in the Republican primary in which Ted Cruz and the Tea Party tore his legislative record to shreds, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst rejiggered the Senate’s levers of power Thursday with some changes that could be viewed as a conciliatory gesture to some of those conservative critics.
Dewhurst shuffled the chairmanships of some of the Senate’s most powerful committees and cut the number of committees led by Democrats by scuttling the International Relations and Trade Committee, which had been headed by Sen. Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville.
Two of the changes — tapping Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston ...
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Adele Roberson
TEN POOREST CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
Interesting... they are all red Republican States. I think this is what is known as voting against your own self-interests.
1. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Tex.
>Median household income: $31,077
>Population: 797,810 (68th highest)
>Unemployment rate: 12% (34th highest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 37.7% (the highest)
2. Brownsville-Harlingen, Tex.
>Median household income: $32,070
>Population: 414,123 (124th highest)
>Unemployment rate: 11.8% (36th highest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 34.1% (2nd highest)
3. Valdosta, Ga.
>Median household income: $32,446
>Population: 140,599 (87th lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 9.2% (140th highest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 27.6%,, (9th highest)
4. Albany, Ga.
>Median household income: $32,775
>Population: 161,617 (122nd lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 10.4% (77th highest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 28.4% (7th highest)
5. Gadsden, Ala.
>Median household income: $33,313
>Population: 104,303 (29th lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 9.1% (144th highest)
6. Monroe, La.
>Median household income: $34,036
>Population: 177,651 (138th lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 7.7% (123rd lowest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 27.9% (8th highest)
7. Hot Springs, Ark.
>Median household income: $34,251
>Population: 97,124 (18th lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 8.3% (173rd lowest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 21.8% (37th highest)
8. Jonesboro, Ark.
>Median household income: $34,673
>Population: 121,569 (55th lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 7.6% (116th lowest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 22.5% (33rd highest)
9. Cumberland, Md.- W. Va.
>Median household income: $34,819
>Population: 102,884 (28th lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 8.2% (163rd lowest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 19.2% (88th highest)
10. Morristown, Tenn.
>Median household income: $35,027
>Population: 137,494 (81st lowest)
>Unemployment rate: 11.0% (52nd highest)
>Pct. households below poverty line: 20.0% (68th highest)
### October 5, 2012
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Does he really think Patrick is going to listen to him?
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