In their first televised debate, the four GOP candidates for lieutenant governor seemed content to continue to frame the contest as a race to see who could claim the title of the most conservative.
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The Brief: Jan. 27, 2014
The Austin American-Statesman’s Jonathan Tilove had a must-read in the Sunday paper, reporting some fascinating details in what he described as a “cat-and-mouse game” between Battleground Texas and James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
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The Brief: Jan. 24, 2014
The story of Steve Stockman is rapidly turning from that of a Tea Party-fueled challenge to the GOP establishment to a headline ripped from a milk carton — as in, no one seems to know where the Clear Lake congressman is.
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The Brief: Jan. 22, 2014
The fallout continues from the Sunday story in The Dallas Morning News on discrepancies in Wendy Davis’ accounting of her early life.
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The Brief: Jan. 21, 2014
The focus on Tuesday returns to District Judge John Dietz’s courtroom, where the next chapter in the legal challenge to the state’s school finance system commences.
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The Brief: Jan. 20, 2014
Wendy Davis’ life story is once again under scrutiny, this time after a Sunday piece by The Dallas Morning News’ Wayne Slater.
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The Brief: Jan. 17, 2014
Texas will continue to be the big winner in the redistribution of the nation’s population westward and southward. And with that go the political spoils.
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The Brief: Jan. 16, 2014
Land commissioner candidate George P. Bush has some pointed words for fellow Republicans who denigrate Hispanics.
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The Brief: Jan. 15, 2014
The campaigns of Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott don’t agree on much, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that even the announcement of campaign contributions has become a source of disagreement.
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The Brief: Jan. 14, 2014
Washington, D.C., is abuzz over the latest perceived thumb to the eye delivered by Ted Cruz to the House leadership.