The Brief: Top Texas News for Sept. 4, 2012
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With Julián Castro just hours away from making his national debut, some Texas Democrats say their comeback begins tonight.
Like their Republican counterparts last week in Tampa, Fla., Texas Democrats were passed over for the prime real estate in their party's national convention, which starts today in Charlotte, N.C. (Those slots this year go to Illinois and Delaware, the president and vice president's home states, and swing states like Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia.) Texas Democrats have, like the Republicans, also been housed several miles from their convention site, largely secluded from the ...

Comments (7)
Casey Bennett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I sincerely hope that our Texas Democrats are not aligning themselves with the Communist Cuba.
Steve Fields via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I hope our Nation will still be here in 10 years...Vote for Romney.
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Let the insanity begin!
Sharon Cooper Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I look forward to hearing Castro speak. He will play a big part in turning this red state blue.
Wilkins Micawber
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murdering pattle.
Articulate, educated, talented minority leadership begins to exert influence on the direction the country is moving, and out come the bigots and dooms-dayers. You need not panic and run away, white mousies! But your One Party State is about to end, and representative democracy take hold again.
Beth Meyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Uh, Casey, what?
Chris Bazan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The asinine statements and ignorance of the right-wingers in Texas is always on display in the Texas Tribune's comments section....I'm so glad it appears that everyone who posts this crap is quite old and on the way out