Michael Barnes of Ed Couch is running for chairman of the Texas Democratic Party and sat for an interview with The Texas Tribune.
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Michael Barnes of Ed Couch is running for chairman of the Texas Democratic Party and sat for an interview with The Texas Tribune.
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Michael Barnes of Ed Couch is running for chairman of the Texas Democratic Party and sat for an interview with The Texas Tribune.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
Perry Up by 9 in New UT/TT Poll
Gov. Rick Perry leads his Democratic challenger, former Houston Mayor Bill White, 44 percent to 35 percent in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, which was conducted May 14 to 20. Fifteen percent of the 800 registered voters surveyed are undecided about which of the gubernatorial candidates to support, while 7 percent prefer “someone else.” Perry leads among men, women and Anglos. White leads among African-Americans and Hispanics. In five other statewide races polled, each Republican leads his Democratic opponent by a double-digit margin.
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Obama for … Texas?!?
Which part of “this is a red state” doesn’t Luke Hayes understand? Undaunted and optimistic, the 26-year-old state director of Organizing for America, the forward operating base for the president’s re-election bid, sees blue in our future — perhaps as soon as 2012.
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Debt Becomes Her?
Don’t look now, but the Texas GOP, the party of budgetary teetotalers, has been piling up debt like a college kid with his first credit card — and that has put chair Cathie Adams in the hot seat a month before she seeks reelection at the state Republican convention.
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Politics
A Matter of Trust
The D.C.-based Texas Democratic Trust began as an attempt to revive flagging Democratic institutions in Texas and is now a critical source of funding for them and a host of consultants. That has made its director, Matt Angle, as powerful as most political bosses in other states. Maybe too powerful, his critics say.
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2010: Reaching Across the Aisle?
The Texas Democratic Party wants you to know that 49 percent of the people who voted in last month’s GOP primary voted against Gov. Rick Perry.
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Criminal Justice
Runoff Day: A Spectator’s Guide
Today’s elections in 18 Texas primary races, all but two involving Republicans, probably won’t change the overall temperature of the statehouse or our delegation to Congress. The partisan makeup of those places isn’t at stake until November. But for three House incumbents and challengers in two other races — for the State Board of Education and the Texas Supreme Court — how the vote turns out is a big deal.
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2010: Chavez Rallies With Farm Worker, Gay Rights Supporter
The day before the runoff election, state Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, is having a rally with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America and a gay rights supporter.
