Texas Round-Up

by: Karl-Thomas Musselman

Sun Feb 19, 2006 at 11:44 PM CST

• Texas Monthy. Preview the next issue online here.  Some great work over there (as usual) with their features on our Texas Fallen Heros.


• John Courage blogs about recent success in Washington in terms of fundraising and outreach.  The unions are coming on board, and Sen. Russ Feingold is coming down for some fundraising.  Since he'll be working with UDems, it looks like we very well may be bringing a 3rd US Senator to campus (all presidential candidates).


• The New York Times has an article on all the Veterans running for Congress this year and a really cool map.  What's that I see in Texas?  8 Democratic Veterans to 1 Republican. Oh yes it is...


• The RedState alerts us to some Juan Garcia endorsements! Who am I to doubt teachers and firefighters.  I'm a big fan of the "Army of Juan".


• The Austin Chronicle reminds us that there will be two ballot referendum for Democrats to vote on.  The Republicans have 4: Private Property Protect, Spending Caps, Appraisal Caps, and Voting Photo IDs (because it's never out of vouge to beat Mary Denny's horse). Here's ours.

  REFERENDUM 1
  Do you support lifting millions of families above the national poverty line by increasing the state minimum wage above its current level of $5.15 per hour?

  REFERENDUM 2
  Do you support the restoration of Texans' full rights to a trial by jury in civil cases?

  I wonder how Bob Gammage will vote on the first one, seeing how that's part of his platform. (Check out the hair in that picture as well!)



• Dick Sticks are Here!  Seriously, check them out. (Work Safe, I promise)


• Best vinyl campaign sign of the season.


• We hear that Capital City Young Democrats endorsed Valinda Bolton for HD 47, Elena Diaz for County Court-at-Law #2, Charlie Baird for the 299th Court, and Sarah Eckhardt for County Commissioner Precinct 2.