The Brief: Top Texas News for July 19, 2012
The Big Conversation:
Though they've been battling publicly for months, seeds of tension between Ted Cruz and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst may have been planted years ago.
As the Tribune's Reeve Hamilton reports today, disagreement between the two U.S. Senate candidates appears to date back to March 2009, when the state Senate took up debate on a voter ID bill.
Dewhurst, who presides over the Senate as lieutenant governor, invited Cruz, who had served as the state's solicitor general until 2008 and later joined a private firm, to advise the Senate on legal issues related to ...

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John McIntyre
Profits over what did you say Gardasil Miner? Oops perry tried to sell the lottery to ubs so his vanderbilt son would make millions in fees per Dallas Morning News archives 2007 and Big Pharma oops perry and dew hurt stood to make money.Nepotism anyone? Miner and Johnson do you have no shame for texas corridor through the ricefields of Wharton County for your mexican or canadian cartel buddies.Now dewhurt accepts the endorsement of PROHOMOSEXUAL marriage Leppert.Geez the Dykes support lepert and the babtist pastors group have torn out the Book of Romans chapter one verse 18 etal.Green Acres Baptist Church of Tyler should be so proud of Dr.Dykes.Google dallasvoice.com and verify the homosexuals,gays,lesbians,sodomites support david dewhurts not TED CRUZ! Senfroni Thompson wants tommy merritt and dewhurst along with straus and the sodomite democrats.Google Straus Eleven.Now Chris Paddie joins the sodomites for Straus for speaker and Wayne Christian is ousted by texas trial lawyers association and Paddie makes the committment June 11 for Straus,dewhurt made in china golf caps.The three stooges were boooed in Ft.Worth and the WTP,TPPatriots and Christian Republicans who support Romans not clinton/carter sbc want a change in asstown and dc.Do people forget the increase in Business Taxes under dewhurts regime?the sale of the lottery to ubs?democrats chairing committees and the two thirds rule used by david dewhhurts?Send em all to the fence building they never built or back to throckmorton to paint rocks.Drain the swamp.Vote Monday Morning for Cruz,Devine,Paxton,Chisum and change rinos to rockpainters.John McIntyre 2012 delegate GOP AND 1984 Reagan delegate Dallas convention.God Bless TEXAS!