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Texas stands against Chicago politics

Matt Krause (R- Tarrant County) gave a rousing speech yesterday, opposing the passage of SB 346, a House leadership bill designed to silence critics and privilege unions. The law passed, and represents one of the most forward examples of the Chicago politics Joe Straus and his team have tried to smuggle into Texas. In his…

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May 15, 2013 | Articles, Featured | by Weston Hicks

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Charlie Geren with Obama’s IRS

Last week’s news that the IRS under the Obama administration had been targeting conservative groups leading up to the 2012 election wasn’t shocking. What’s interesting is Texas Republican House leadership is acting in a similar manner. Obama’s little helper in the Texas House is Charlie Geren, who will be working today to disclose donors to…

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May 13, 2013

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Pro-CSCOPE Wichita Falls School Board violates Open Meetings Act

The Wichita Fall School Board looks to have violated the Open Records Act by holding a pro-CSCOPE meeting with the Wichita Country Republican Women, according to a story in the Times Record News, a Wichita Falls newspaper. The meeting was an apparent attempt by a pro-CSCOPE school board to tamp down growing opposition to CSCOPE,…

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May 10, 2013

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    The Tommy Williams Spending Bomb
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    Senator Tommy Williams is trying to turn our state savings account into dedicated spending, which is like dedicating the the kid’s college account or the retirement account to new boat payments. The Legislature is in a mad dash to use the last of the post-election Obama political wave to spend money in ways Texans would…

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    Despite crony blitz fundamentals still good in Texas
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    America is in a liberal political cycle, which means outcomes everywhere are mostly disappointing for conservatives. However, things could be much worse here in Texas, which is a testament to our dominant principle-based conservative orientation. That is not to say our outcomes aren’t bad here, too – they are. For example, a big water slush…

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    Defensive Representatives Fend Off Transparency
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    Yesterday Republican members of the State Affairs Committee screeched loudly about a bill that would force them to disclose the government contracts that they and their family members have. And politicians wonder why they are so distrusted. Representative Giovanni Capriglione won the confidence of his district by championing government transparency. The bill under review was…

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    Larry Gonzales caught stonewalling military families

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    State Rep. Jonathan Stickland exposed State Rep. Larry Gonzales for putting politics before the families of military personnel. It was revealed Gonzales blackballed Stickland’s HB 202, designed to help the families of soon to be deployed military personnel. Gonzales was discussing his own bill related to military personnel, HB 1004, before the House when Stickland…

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    Leadership needed

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    Last week members of the House State Affairs Committee voted to give illegal aliens state issued drivers IDs. The move is another in a long string of moves signaling that Republicans in the Texas are in desperate need of some leadership. How bad has it gotten? Many Republicans are pushing a water slush fund that…

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    Sarah Davis’s cold, cold heart

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    Becca Aaronson, a Texas Tribune writer, demonstrated the coldness of the pro-abortion community when she wrote, “Abortion opponents believe fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks gestation because they reflexively respond to stimuli, but there is no scientific consensus.” “Reflexively respond to stimuli”? Wow. What a phrase. I ‘reflexively responded to the stimuli’ of my…

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