The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for April 5, 2012
New in The Texas Tribune:
- Santorum Backers Push to Make Texas Primary a Winner-Take-All Affair: "Supporters of Rick Santorum want to change the rules for the state's presidential primary so the winner gets all the delegates that are up for grabs. They say they have enough support to force an emergency meeting of the State Republican Executive Committee. But there are numerous hurdles beyond that step."
- Stewart Rogers: The TT Interview: "The manager of a West Texas farm on the oddities of crop insurance, why all the farmers near Lubbock want to grow cotton and why West Texans don ...
Comments (4)
Christina Jonsson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We are really not a whole other country, thank you Budha.
Kelly Grossman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Vote for Rick!! :)
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The reason for the request for the rule change is that Texas was only a proportional state because they HAD to be to have a primary before April. Now that the primary is later, it would add signficantly to Texas clout to be all or none. Tne rules change ponly makes sense because the courts have already changed the conditions.
Mark Merowitz
This conservatives are not really what they are. I can only see bigotry and desperate attempts to change a rule too hinder Republicans opportunity to beat Obama this Nov. I say a vote for Santorum is a vote for Obama. Let's all end this nonsense and vote for Romney and beat the liberals this Nov.