I was checking out the Club for Growth blog and I came across a piece written by John Stossel:
The NEA says public schools need more money. That’s the refrain heard in politicians’ speeches, ballot initiatives and maybe even in your child’s own classroom. At a union demonstration, teachers carried signs that said schools will only […]

The headline says it all: “Club for Growth Pac Makes First Ever Endorsement of a Democrat, Backing Rep. Henry Cuellar (Tx -28) for Re-Election.”
Club for Growth is a political organization that was founded by Stephen Moore, former committee staffer for Dick Armey. Here are some Stephen Moore quotes:
“We want to be seen as the tax-cut […]

Saw Cuellar standing behind his political benefactor Tom DeLay on a WOAI story today. Unfortunately, my Mac and www.WOAI.com don’t get along very well, so I couldn’t do a screen capture. The above chestnut of Cuellar’s electoral sugar daddy will have to do.
DeLay got Cuellar into office by drawing lines designed to dilute black and […]

Yesterday, Ciro Rodriguez had lunch with about 180 seniors at his campaign headquarters in San Antonio. I’m sorry I missed it, because I’m sure it was a happy, good-natured affair. After all, Ciro was always among seniors’ most fervent defenders in the U.S. Congress. Ciro stood especially strong once the Bush Administration started dismantling the […]

The Red State was the first to take a closer look at the possibility of going back to the old lines if the Supreme Court gets rid of the current congressional map in Texas. Todd J. Gillman of the Dallas Morning-News examines some of the electoral consequences around the state, including the 28th congressional district:
In […]

State Representative Richard Raymond has dropped out of the Texas CD-28 race.
Ciro Rodriguez released the following statement:
“From our first conversations early in the year about this race, I knew Richard and I shared the same motivation — the need to have a real Democratic Congressman who will stand up and fight in Washington for […]

Off the Kuff and The Red State have both noted that money matters in Texas CD-28. Owing to the fact that Ciro Rodriguez is the one candidate from San Antonio while both Henry Cuellar and Richard Raymond are from Laredo, Rodriguez doesn’t need to raise as much as his opponents. After all, the Laredo slugfest […]

Dan Eggen of the Washington Post reports that the career lawyers in the Justice Department decided that the DeLay redistricting plan hurt Latinos and African-Americans but were rolled:
Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo […]

Deb Price writes in the Detroit News that “Anti-gay politics will backfire with Hispanics.” Tell that to Texas State Representative Richard Raymond, who helped put Prop 2, the recently passed anti-gay constitutional amendment, on the ballot.
Even the Dallas Morning News, a very conservative newspaper (Bill O’Reilly’s rants notwithstanding), opposed the amendment, writing “Why on […]

Question: How much money does it take to make the runoff in a Texas congressional primary when you are a state rep with name recognition below 50 percent running against a popular current congressman from your hometown and a beloved former congressman from a town where nobody knows who you are?
The above graph shows […]