Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up: October 26, 2009

by: Phillip Martin, Progress Texas

Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 02:08 PM CDT

The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for the start of the World Series, and it presents to you its weekly highlight reel as we await the first pitch.

• quizas of South Texas Chisme wonders about the US detaining a Mexican human rights activist. WWJD on Carter Avenue?
  
  
• TXsharon wants to know if Chesapeake Energy or anyone in Fort Worth government has stopped to consider the answer to that question. Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS.
  
  
• Bay Area Houston wonders if the Hispanic community will dump their endorsement of Gene Locke.
  
  
• WhosPlayin lost a fight with the Lewisville ISD, whose board voted unanimously to define media as print and broadcast only and give itself permission to shut out bloggers. (includes video of meeting)
  
  
• Not sure how to green up your life? Lucky for you, there's a whole series of tips to that topic at Texas Vox, the Voice of Public Citizen in Texas. This week's suggestion:Start a compost pile! Even in your freezer...
  
  
• The Texas Cloverleaf picks up on the "Pay to Play" system, alive and while with Rick Perry and the TABC.
  
  
• Problems for the Democrats in 2010? Harry Balczak at McBlogger uncovers something that says that's what we're exactly heading toward.
  
  
• Dembones at Eye On Williamson Posts on TX-31 Rep. John Carter's latest hypocrisy Carter’s income disclosure problem spoils GOP tactic.
  
  
• Progressive Coalition candidates for Houston city council (and a Socialist running for mayor) are the subject of PDiddie's post at Brains and Eggs.
  
  
• Neil at Texas Liberal suggested that voters in Houston consider Progressive Coalition candidates running for Houston City Council.
  
  
• It is hard to see how voting for Democrats year-after-year in city elections has been of great benefit to the people of Houston. Over at Texas Kaos, libbyshaw provides a public service by providing a Republican hypocrisy score card. Check out her Texas GOP Hall of Hypocrites. You can't tell the hyprocrites without a scorecard. Wait, you can almost. If there is an "R" beside their names, the odds are better than even....
  
  
• Off the Kuff notes that a settlement has been reached in a lawsuit between Democrats and the Harris County Tax Assessor's office over allegations of voter suppression.