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A Lone Voice of Reason
Yesterday the ironically titled Texas House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations finally met in public to hear allegations against UT Regent Wallace Hall. Sadly, only one member...
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Impeach the Impeachers?
At yesterday’s hearing of the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, Rep. Ferdinand Frank Fischer III (who goes by the moniker, “Trey Martinez Fischer”) compared the...
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Committee Targets Wallace Hall But is Also After Your Right to Counsel
Late Wednesday, in the closing hours of day two of live testimony before the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, a most disturbing conflict began to arise. Representative...
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Hall Allegations: Much Ado About Nothing
Tuesday the Texas House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations met again to continue their tribunal against University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall. First, the Committee alleged...
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How Out of Touch is Sen. John Carona?
John Carona has been in Austin for a long time. He was first elected to office in 1990. But how out of touch with his district is Carona, really? So out of touch that he put the wrong district map up...
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Debra Medina: Comptroller Candidate, Straus Supporter
After months of speculation that she might run for office, Debra Medina – who finished in third place in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor in 2010 – threw her hat in the ring for...
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Lubbock Establishment Runs Tax Raiser Against Rep. Charles Perry
Is the Lubbock establishment challenging conservative Rep. Charles Perry because he won't raise taxes? [small_image alt="13 Steps to Making Lubbock More Like Austin" caption="The Imagine Lubbock...
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Neal Adams: Tarrant County’s Moderate Puppeteer
State Rep. Jonathan Stickland didn’t toe the grow-government line this session. He voted against a bloated budget that increased session-to-session spending 26.9% and a myriad of liberal policies. That...
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Andy Cargile Visits Austin’s Lobby Club
Last week we introduced you to Neal Adams, the pay-for-play moderate puppeteer of Tarrant County. Since our story ran, left-wing blogger Bud Kennedy has rushed to Adams’ defense, calling him a...
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Some Serve, Some Just Serve Themselves
Some dedicate their lives to serving others. Others use public office to serve themselves. Tony Tinderholt is one of those who has dedicated his life to serving others, even putting his life on the...
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Dan Branch: Duck-Baiting Moderate
After cable network A&E made the controversial decision to suspend Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson over his comments in GQ magazine, Republican campaigns across Texas went on Facebook to defend...
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Team Straus Backs Lobbyist in East Texas, Meddles in Senate Race
Update: 8:05 pm on January 2, 2014 -- Ogle has fixed seven of the thirteen typos on his new "issues" page but six remain. Glad we could help proofread. Update: As of 5:15 pm on January 2, 2014,...
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Monorail Massengale and the Chamber of Boondoggles
From the “we can’t make this stuff up” file, out of Lubbock comes news that Lubbock master downtown developer Delbert McDougal is working to install a monorail. You read that correctly. A monorail. In...
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The Pettiest Campaign in Texas Politics
When Andy Cargile, a retired school principal from Hurst, declared his intent to challenge taxpayer champion Jonathan Stickland, we had certain expectations about how the campaign would go. We learned...
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Meet Representative Zero: Byron Cook
If you live in Anderson, Freestone, Navarro, or Hill counties, you must confront a sad realization: you don’t have a representative in Austin. Sure, on paper and on the ballot, Byron Cook is elected as...
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Lobbyist Skip Ogle Scuttles Campaign at Tyler Debate
Conservative State Representative Matt Schaefer and his establishment opponent, Austin lobbyist Skip Ogle, met for a debate on January 10th in Tyler. The event was hosted by Grassroots America: We The...
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John Otto: The Creature of Austin
Last week we told you about Byron Cook, whom we recently dubbed “Representative Zero” after he turned in a semiannual campaign finance report loaded with lobby dollars but with nary a penny of...
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What does Andy Cargile have in common with an Austin Democrat?
A review of the ethics commission report filed by a liberal school administrator group (the deceptively named “Parent PAC”) revealed that the group has only made two political contributions in 2014....
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Andy Cargile: Big-Tax Todd’s Tax-Raising Protégé
In a recent interview with the Austin insider publication Quorum Report, Andy Cargile spilled the beans on his intentions if he wins elected office. He made it clear that he would like to emulate Todd...
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Eric Opiela Deceives Voters
Months ago we introduced you to Eric Opiela. He is running for Agriculture Commissioner and portraying himself as a rancher, when in reality his primary occupation over the past several years has been...
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