Daily Archives: October 14, 2004

Good news and bad news

Posted on October 14, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

Via Greg, I see that Chet Edwards has picked up a couple of nice endorsements, one from the Star Telegram, the other from a self-identified Republican columnist for Texas A&M’s The Battalion. I’ll echo Greg’s comments about why the latter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Telemarketers undaunted by No Call law

Posted on October 14, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

Apparently all those doom-and-gloom predictions about the state of the telemarketing industry post-National No Call were based on faulty intelligence. In the months before the national do-not-call list went into effect, Stuart Discount laid off more than 150 of his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Endorsement watch: Supreme Court

Posted on October 14, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

As predicted, the Chron stumps for Scott Brister in the State Supreme Court race against David Van Os. Who will be the first scrappy challenger to get the nod over an entrenched incumbent? I await with bated breath. Continue reading →

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Novak on DeLay

Posted on October 14, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

One must always take care when reading a Robert Novak column, but he says something here which I think is substantially correct. He’s speaking about the DeLay admonishments, and comparing the situation to those of Jim Wright in 1989 and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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How the other papers are doing

Posted on October 14, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

I suppose it’s unfair to crime the Chron for its lame-o Election Central section, which has a now-empty primaries section but no index of endorsements or other useful goodies, without comparing it to the other papers. So I took a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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