General Wes Clark is in Austin on Tuesday, September 25th at the Texas Union (for students, faculty and staff). He will also be at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Tuesday for a book signing at 1:30 PM.
General Clark will be at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 1:30 PM to introduce and sign his new book, A Time to Lead: for Duty, Honor and Country.
The 2006 election is about more than just one race.
Up and down the state, strong Democratic candidates are taking on the Republicans in November – and today. Katy Hubener is one of those candidates.
She is fighting to capture HD 106 from the Republicans in a special election next Tuesday, February 28th. As a severe underdog in 2004, Katy nearly knocked off long-time Republican incumbent and powerful committee chair Ray Allen.
Next week, she is poised to turn a red district blue, but she needs our help. We need Katy’s voice and leadership in the Capitol for the upcoming special session on public education and, together, we can help make that happen. Let’s do all that we can to help Katy Hubener next Tuesday.
Below is former Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Ken Molberg’s eloquent call to Dallas-area Democrats to get out and help push Katy over the top on Tuesday.
Let’s expand that to Democrats statewide and help elect Katy Hubener to the Texas House. Rebuilding the Democratic Majority in Texas will happen one day at a time and one race at a time.
Let’s do what we can to help a great Texas Democrat on Tuesday!
Thank you for all your help and thanks for helping TAKE BACK TEXAS
West Austin Democrats
Capitol Area Progressive Democrats
Texas Southern University Democrats
University Democrats (University of Texas at Austin)
Central Austin Democrats
Austin Progressive Coalition
Latinos for Texas (LFT)
Austin Stonewall Democrats
ALGPC (Austin Lesbian & Gay Political Caucus),
Houston GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Transgendered)
Texas State Council of Machinist and Aerospace Workers (statewide)
Rio Grande Valley Central Labor Council
Dallas’ Progressive Voter's League
Black El Paso Democrats
South Texas Tejano Democrats (SD 20)
Hidalgo County Tejano Democrats (SD 27)
Northwest Austin Democrats
The discussion about the propensity for one of candidates in the governor's race to champion "bipartisanship" has sent me on a little journey.
I frankly don't see the logic of those candidate's supporters who make heroes out of Conyers, Boxer and Feingold but turn right around and proclaim that "bipartisanship" is an effective way to deliver the Democratic message.
These same proponents of "bipartisanship" would be appalled to find themselves lumped in with the likes of Joe "Jomentum" Leiberman, but Joe Leiberman is the epitome of the 'bipartisan' Democrat.
This evening, the Austin American Statesman decided to endorse the Democratic candidate for Texas Gov. who would " deal with Republican legislative majorities, not futilely attempt a "my way or the highway approach," as he put it."
The Statesman, showing Austin the leadership they are so famous for (like they did in the 2004 race by endorsing George Bush) have decided that Democrats should endorse Chris Bell because he "plays nicely" with the (Bell assumes) continuing Republican stranglehold on the state.
The Statesman -- ignoring Gammage support by virtually every Democratic organization in Austin -- has decided that "go along to get along" is the best policy for the Democratic candidate.
(I was a Deaniac back then, but most of us got along with the Clarkies, especially in Texas. If anyone has some old Bell speeches that get as many recommendations as this got, I'll front page them; this gives us some insight into the past. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
(Crossposted from Democratic Underground)
Sometimes it difficult to separate rhetoric from reality, and self-promotion from authenticity during a political campaign. Sometimes the best measure of a candidate is to find something he's said or done that can't be attributed to campaign rhetoric.
Something from an unguarded moment to show who he truly is.
In digging through some old archives, I ran across this speech from Bob Gammage from early in the Draft Clark days -- on the occasion of opening the Draft Clark HQ in Little Rock -- August 9, 2003.
An appeal from Bob to get someone that had retired after many years of service to answer the call once again. Whether your choice in 04 for president was Wes Clark or not, these words still ring out as a call to arms. Every word from this speech in 2003 could apply now, TODAY, here in the state of Texas.
THIS is Bob Gammage.
THIS is the voice of a committed Democrat demanding a chance to change the direction of the country.
THIS is the voice of a fighter.
THIS IS THE MAN who needs to be the next Governor of Texas.
In case anyone's forgotten about (or didn't read it the first time) here's an interesting (and quite funny) story from John Kelso at the AAS about Bell's attempt to 'relate' to students at UT.
I'm not sure if this is what the political pros in Texas were describing when they called the Bell campaign "hapless", BUT it certainly struck me as being a piece that said something important.
"People are a lot more likely to read about a food fight than his position on taxes," said Jason Stanford, Bell's press guy.
This quote from Stanford sort of sums up the relative importance of things, don'cha think?
