“Things are going great. I feel good, and I’m going to campaign to the end,” she told a TV reporter shortly before Houston’s Downtown Rodeo Parade. “I don’t think the polls are right.”
Brandi Grissom
Brandi Grissom worked at the Tribune from its launch in 2009 until 2014, rising to the rank of managing editor. In addition to editing duties, Grissom led the Tribune's coverage of criminal justice issues. During her tenure at the Tribune, she was chosen as a 2012 City University of New York Center on Media, Crime and Justice/H.F. Guggenheim Journalism Fellow and was a fellow at the 2012 Journalist Law School at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Grissom, along with Tribune multimedia producer Justin Dehn, received a 2012 regional Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting for work on the case of Megan Winfrey, who was acquitted of murder in February 2013 after the Trib’s coverage brought statewide attention the case. Grissom joined the Tribune after four years at the El Paso Times, where she acted as a one-woman Capitol bureau. Grissom won the Associated Press Managing Editors First-Place Award in 2007 for using the Freedom of Information Act to report stories on a variety of government programs and entities, and the ACLU of Texas named her legislative reporter of the year in 2007 for her immigration reporting. She previously served as managing editor at The Daily Texan and has worked for the Alliance Times-Herald, the Taylor Daily Press, the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung and The Associated Press. A native of Alliance, Neb., she has a degree in history from the University of Texas.
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2010: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
As if there wasn’t enough action planned in Austin on Tuesday, the Texas State History Museum Foundation announced today that it will be honoring none other than President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush at a dinner on the very same night as the primary election.
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2010: Empower Texans Says “Nope” to Kleberg
Empower Texans, a group of conservative GOPers led by Michael Quinn Sullivan, posted an ad on YouTube yesterday attacking El Paso Republican primary candidate Jay Kleberg for his 2008 vote for President Barack Obama.
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2010: No Thanks, But Thanks
Gov. Rick Perry today accepted the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen Project that the governor back in 2005 said he had “no desire” to see in Texas.
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State Government
2010: “Reform” War in El Paso
It’s a battle of the “reformers” — Texans for Lawsuit Reform and Texans for Insurance Reform — out in El Paso, and the two are neck-and-neck.
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Signs of Shami
Without El Paso, you know, it’d be like a campaign without sunshine for Farouk Shami. The Palestinian immigrant running as a Democrat for governor has made public overtures to Latinos, and it’s working: He’s drawing some of his most significant support from Hispanic Democrats in the Sun City.
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2010: EPT Endorses Gonzalez over Chavez in HD-76
The El Paso Times endorsed challenger Naomi Gonzalez today in her bid to unseat HD-76 incumbent Norma Chavez in the March 2 Democratic primary.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Packin’ in the Park
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who has been taking his gun to Big Bend National Park anyway, says he is glad he can now carry without violating the rules.
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Demographics
Primary Color: HD-76
State Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, is in the fight of her career, trying to hang onto her Texas House seat after a bruising year in which her public fights with her fellow lawmakers made headlines statewide. Her young opponent says it’s way past time for a change.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Skinner Execution Postponed
The trial judge who initially decided Hank Skinner would die Feb. 24 — one week from today — has pushed the execution date back to March 24, says Skinner attorney Rob Owen, co-director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Capital Punishment Clinic.