Bio:
Twenty-something white male, born and bred in Fort Worth, Texas -- though I currently reside in Austin. Not one much for consistency, I enjoy progressive politics and misanthropy when I'm not singing or baking vegan cookies. I'm also a huge fan of Tallade
(We are hearing this from afar and we are trying to both wrap our minds around what the Clinton campaign is doing and what this means for the unprecedented surge of new delegates and voters. We will absolutely be writing more as we find out the details. The Texas Observer has this to add. - promoted by Matt Glazer)
Gonna do this one drive-by style and let the Dallas Morning News article speak for itself. I hadn't seen an article up about it yet on BOR so here goes:
Hillary Clinton and her lawyers are trying to cast doubt on the precinct conventions.
Hillary Clinton and her lawyers are trying to deligitimize the concept of the convention itself.
Hillary Clinton and her lawyers are trying to drag out the delegate selection process for their benefit.
And ultimately, Hillary Clinton and her lawyers are probably trying to null and void as much of the convention/caucus aspect of Texas' delegate selection process as possible.
As final results from the Texas Democratic caucus remain unknown, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wants signatures from the March 4 contest verified before party conventions are held around the state later this month.
In a letter sent to the state Democratic Party late Friday, the Clinton campaign requests the March 29 count and state Senate district conventions be postponed until the eligibility of an estimated 1 million caucus-goers are double checked."
When I first heard that the salsa guy was running for governor, I took it as a novelty.
My brother made us buy that disgusting crap once and his name was kind of funny, but that's about all I knew of Mr. Richard Kinky Friedman.
But when the Daily Texan did a full page article on the man who owned an animal rescue ranch, a charity that benefitted Middle Eastern children and Waylon Jennings' jacket I took ole Mr. Friedman to heart.
In the wake of common sense, economic justice and plain ole democracy triumphing in Chicago, Illinois, big business has stepped up to the plate in an effort to derail a progressive triumph once again.
At a forum hosted by the Real Estate Council of Austin (RECA), I posed the following question to Councilmember Brewster McCracken:
"The City Council has recently proposed to place a sewage plant in Roy Guerrero Park in East Austin. As you know, almost all other similar facilities are in East Austin. As you also know, those facilities are there in spite of the protests made by citizens in East Austin. Environmental groups, East Austin groups and I all agree that this is just another egregious example of environmental racism. Will you commit to voting against this proposal?"
To which he replied:
""Well you know, they have a saying, 'life is one damned thing after another.'"
