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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman

Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 05:57 PM CST



  • Cheney's hunting victim apparently has had a heart attack.  Apparently he's stable.  So does that make him even with Cheney in the heart department or is our Veep still one up on him?

  • Latinos for Texas has a post on some interviews they have with Ciro Rodriguez.  LFT-PAC is also meeting tomorrow to endorse in a number of races including Governor, HD-28, SD-19, HD-47 and maybe others.  A good old fashioned caucus, sounds like fun!

  • Katy Hubener launches her first TV spot (as today marks the start of Early Voting in Dallas in HD-106).  Watch it on her site.  We'll be moving on to HD-106 Special Election coverage just as soon as we get HD-48 under our belt.

  • The Van Os campaign for Attorney General put out a press release today on Greg Abbott asking for some answers.

    Texans have a right to know that wheeler-dealer Republican political operative John Colyandro, a central figure in the Tom DeLay-TRMPAC money-laundering scandal that funneled large sums of corporate dollars into the hands of Texas Republican candidates in the 2002 general election, served on Greg Abbott’s campaign payroll during the same time frame in 2002. 

    Texans also have a right to know that Greg Abbott is one of the favorite candidates of Bob Perry of Perry Homebuilders. Perry is one of the biggest financiers of Karl Rove’s favorite political tactic of maligning their opponent with insults and lies. For example, he financed the so-called "Swift Boat Veterans" in their 2004 smear of John Kerry. Since 2001 Bob Perry and his wife have contributed over $570,000 to Abbott's campaign accounts. In the month of December 2005 alone, Perry gave Abbott $50,000 in one payment.


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Greg Abbott's money (3.00 / 2)
Anyone can do a search for Greg Abbott's campaign filings at the Texas Ethics Commission
Texas Ethics Commission campaign filings search

You can search either by his name or his campaign's name as the filer.  His campaign name is Texans for Greg Abbott. The data is amazing. No surprise that the majority of his money is coming from PACs in the oil and gas industry, building and real estate industry and other businesses. The corporations own Greg Abbott, so naturally he does their bidding.


The Point of Our Spear (3.00 / 1)
If Bell wins the primary and becomes our "good cop" then Van Os will be our only "bad cop" on the campaign trail.  I am convinced that the culture of corruption issue will ring loud and clear this election cycle and we need to support Van Os' efforts NOW to bring this message to a statewide audience.

The AG race is perfect for this because it is easy for voters of either party to understand that the AG should be standing up for the people's interests and be a strong fighter against corruption.  Voters across the phony left-right spectrum are fed up with corruption.

This isn't a Van Os quote, but it could be:

"Corruption isn't capitalism. Corrupt millionaires don't want to have to compete, and when uninformed voters believe whatever they're told by the millionaires the fraud can continue indefinitely. 

Do you see ideology here?  There isn't any. 

The fraud is called "conservatism." 
Opposition to fraud is dismissed as "liberalism." 

Neither word means a damned thing.  It's all just advertising for the great scam, and you get to pay for it."

(citation: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/13/161810/637 )


he needs money (3.00 / 1)
what van os needs right now more than anything is financial support.  he is getting screwed by labor in texas right now, who's decided to dump all their money into strayhorn in the hopes of unseating perry.  dave should have a page on actblue pretty soon.  i'll link it up when i goes live.

Fudd's first law of opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall over.

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actually... (0.00 / 0)
i believe katy's district covers grand prairie and part of irving.  i've been pleasantly suprised to see a shitload of hubener signs on the west side of GP. that's usually bush country, and just based on a visual inspection, it seems GP is ready for change.  also, in hd96 (my district), i think longtime gop incumbent kent grusendorf is going down.  dianne patrick is giving kent a real run this time.  just this week a TON of patrick signs went up all over my district. i'm talking several signs on every block, which is highly unusual for this area during a gop primary.  patrick is really working it, and while i don't vote gop, i sure hope she unseats grusendorf.  it's time for him to go.

Fudd's first law of opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall over.

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