The Brief: Top Texas News for Aug. 1, 2012

by David Muto
August 1, 2012
10 Comments

The Big Conversation:

A stunner of an end to a months-long electoral slog has turned Ted Cruz into Texas' newest political celebrity.

On Tuesday, Cruz, the former state solicitor general, defeated Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the runoff for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate by more than 10 points, 57 to 43 percent.

“Millions of Texans," Cruz told supporters during his victory speech in Houston, "millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, defend liberty and restore the Constitution.”

As recently as a month ago, the race looked like Dewhurst's to lose, but a delayed ...

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Comments (10)

August 1, 2012 @ 7:02 a.m.

Mary Smith Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Did he mean "millionaires"?
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August 1, 2012 @ 7:08 a.m.

Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Yep, that is exactly what he means.
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August 1, 2012 @ 7:21 a.m.

Jeremy Jones via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Didn't know the constitution was broken
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August 1, 2012 @ 7:38 a.m.

Terry Wells via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Reclaim our country?...is he gonna buy it back from China?
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August 1, 2012 @ 7:46 a.m.

Sharon Cooper Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I fear for our country when narrow-minded people like Cruz rise up and claim what they obviously don't understand. Are we becoming a western version of Iran?
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August 1, 2012 @ 8 a.m.

Andy Jones via Texas Tribune on Facebook

We are in VERY deep trouble if this guy wins the senate seat. Texas will go even further into the black hole.
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August 1, 2012 @ 8:22 a.m.

Les Stevens via Texas Tribune on Facebook

i believe hes an opportunist capitalizing on the tea party base. i dont think he believes in anything but his own ambition. thats (almost) worse than a tea bagger.
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August 1, 2012 @ 9:09 a.m.

Candyce Byrne via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Well . . . it could be the thing that turns the tide in Texas, as people realize how inept these clowns are, and what a danger they are to the constitution they are so eager to "restore" to a condition the framers wouldn't recognize.
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August 1, 2012 @ 9:27 a.m.

Rudy Gonzales

Everyone knew Texas would stay RED, but when extremist TEA party take over without moderation, Texas will continue it's downward motion. Maybe next to go will be the other moderate, Perry.
Richard Hanna of New York has shown his disgust with the antics of the TEA fringe. Hanna must be paying attention to TEA activities and pronouncements calling for limited government while forcing women to undergo medical procedures without a physician's order. TEA fringe calling for voter ID to combat voter fraud, while enacting additional voting restrictions, in Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
Voter fraud simply isn’t a problem in this country. Studies have definitively debunked the voter fraud myth time and again. Call TEA party operative what they are - Radical fringe extremist all bent on taking down the government rather than allow Obama any positive stroke. Republicans are so scared of the TEA fringe, they will not disavow them as radicals and embrace their skewed notions and issues especially now that Texas has lost it moderate standing.
August 1, 2012 @ 2:30 p.m.

Samdavis

Give Cruz time and he'll be as corrupt as John Cornyn. We're not going to take Texas back until Hispanics turn out in large numbers and offset the Southern Baptist rednecks that are fueling the TEA Party success. I'm an OWG but I'm appalled by the narrow mindedness of primarily older white GOP voters in Texas. We've seen what bad or limited government can do as we watch Texas hit 50th in nearly every important category.