Texas Round-Up

by: Karl-Thomas Musselman

Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 10:24 PM CDT

• Austinite Wes Benedict, and former executive director of the Libertarian Party of Texas, is going to become the new head of the National Libertarian Party.


• Paul Burka asks why Bill White isn't running for Governor.
  
  
• Protests in El Paso over gay kissing, or rather, protesting a restaurant that called in security on gay kissing.
  
  
• Off the Kuff reacts to Mike Lux' piece on the future of Texas Democrats.
  
  
• Speaker Joe Strauss reports having over a million dollars in the bank and 123 pledges for a return as speaker. Of course, over half of those pledge will disappear if there is a Democratic majority in the House next session.
  
  
• Harold Cook finds a funny.