Never Can Say Goodbye
Sometimes your vote counts, sometimes it doesn't.
It's not your fault. It's because voters won't be offered a real chance to change most of the people in the Legislature and the Texas seats in Congress next year. Four out of five state and federal legislators won't suffer any real competition next year in their primary or general elections.
Their districts are secure because their maps are secure. Only one state senator got knocked off in last year's elections. Four fresh faces were among the 31 senators in 2007. In 2005, it was zero. More ...

Comments (2)
Robbie Cooper
The real shocker is that a Liberal politico like Jason has so many sympathetic buddies in the Liberal media, like the Texas Tribune.
This only further confirms the cozy relationship between democrats and their media mouth pieces.
Would Evan Smith and the Trib have offered up a guest column spot to a fired Conservative consultant? Or ANY Conservative for that matter?
Until they do, we'll just assume the answer is No.
Robbie Cooper
Yikes.
Commented on the wrong story. Hah.