The Brief: Top Texas News for Sept. 5, 2012
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Whether or not his keynote speech lived up to the hype, Julián Castro on Tuesday night planted his foot firmly on the national stage.
Castro, the mayor of San Antonio, last night delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, a speaking role that most famously went to Barack Obama in 2004, but also to Texans like Ann Richards, in 1988, and Barbara Jordan, in 1976 and 1992.
Amid deafening buzz, Castro — long viewed as a rising star among Texas Democrats — energetically delivered a nearly 20-minute speech in which he laced a strong defense of ...
Comments (7)
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Amen and give back to society. The GOP have become the party of hate, lies and GREED.
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Whimper...
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
.... and then Castro and the democrats take it from them
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Speaking of hatred, nice to hear from you again Karen Spivey-Cummings.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Loved it! I'm so tired of the GOP fear, lies & obsession w/tax cuts for the wealthy! Forward to the future, indeed, not backwards with the fossilized GOP!!
David Lee Koontz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This speech coming from a guy whose mother helped found La Raza and who called the Alamo defenders a bunch of "thieves" and "drunks." Yeah, this speech definitely makes up for all that. (...if you're an incompetent moron.)
Mary Muna via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Right after they behead them with a machete and take the drugs.