Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up: October 18, 2010

by: Phillip Martin, Progress Texas

Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 09:57 AM CDT

Thanks, as always, to Charles Kuffner at OfftheKuff for compiling this weeks' round-up.

The Texas Progressive Alliance is fired up and ready to vote as it brings you this week's blog roundup.

• Off the Kuff has interviews with Linda Chavez-Thompson and Barbara Radnofsky.
  
  
• CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme thinks breathing benzene, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants is bad. Why doesn't the TCEQ agree?
  
  
• The Texas Cloverleaf posts on Blog Action Day about clean water in the Barnett shale.
  
  
• WCNews at Eye On Williamson points our that there a still many unanswered questions regarding Gov. Perry and a special favor for a mega donor, The drip, drip, drip continues for Perry's mega-donor problem.
  
  
• The King Street Patriot extremists are breaking the law again in Harris County. A lot more voter suppression and intimidation is in store from these thugs. Brains and Eggs has the details, including the link to the video of TeaBaggin' Jim Murphy (he's going to lose to Kristi Thibaut again) doing the honors.
  
  
• Neil at Texas Liberal can't imagine that the people of Houston might wish to get rid of Red Light Cameras. Our roads in Houston are already filled with drunks and crazies. Why would we want to make things even worse by making it easier to run red lights and get away with it? Neil urges folks in Houston to vote Yes on Prop. 3 and help keep our streets somewhat less bloody than they might otherwise become.
  
  
• Intrepid Intern Ali Rawaf and Campaign Finance Curmudgeon Andy Wilson team up at TexasVox to remind you that early voting starts today, Monday, Oct 18, by giving you the sobering truth of who exactly is financing our Congressional midterm campaigns and what special favors they will want if you let their chosen candidates get into office. This is the first in a series-- keep an eye on TexasVox in the next 2 weeks for more in-depth looks at who's financing the Texas Governor's race, races for Ag Commissioner and Railroad Commissioner, and the Third Court of Appeals-- and maybe others.
  
  
• Letters From Texas reacted to Rick Perry's latest scandal with a memo from Illinois warning Perry to get off their turf.