Daily Archives: January 21, 2006

Date set for HD106 special election

The special election to replace the outgoing State Rep. Ray Allen in HD106 will be February 28. Gov. Rick Perry on Friday called a special election for Feb. 28 to fill the unexpired term of state Rep. Ray Allen, R-Grand … Continue reading Continue reading

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Anti-DeLay ads will finally air in Houston

And to think, their run might have ended by now. At least one Houston television station has agreed to air a reworked television ad linking Rep. Tom DeLay to disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff after refusing to air the first … Continue reading Continue reading

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Yates requests transfer

Attorneys for Andrea Yates have filed a motion for a “reasonable” bond that would allow them to move her into Rusk Psychiatric Hospital. George Parnham argues that Yates, who drowned her five children in June 2001, cannot afford the current … Continue reading Continue reading

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Greeting the Gravy Train

Looks like Smokey Joe Barton’s Gravy Train got an appropriate sendoff. About 50 people showed up at the train station Friday afternoon to protest U.S. Rep. Joe Barton’s weekend campaign fund-raising trip to San Antonio for supporters on a chartered … Continue reading Continue reading

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David Barrett’s long odyssey comes to an anticlimactic end

David Barrett, who has wasted $21 million of your tax dollars in a decade-long pursuit of Henry Cisneros, has finally produced his report, which is long on accusations and short on evidence. In a 474-page report, independent counsel David M. … Continue reading Continue reading

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