With his campaign letterhead front and center, Mr. Jones addressed  - wait for it –  the lobby, which he affectionately referred to in his letter as “the third house”.  Jones was asking for money from lobbyists to beat stalwart commonsense conservative Charles Perry in District 83. The lobby, for those readers lucky enough not to…

Desperate to get the slot machines that they’ve been unable to get the democratic way, the racetrack lobby is hoping to get slot machines via cooperation with the naughty Texas Lottery Commission. The Texas Lottery Commission introduced  a scratch off game last fall that included a second chance internet drawing, even though second chance internet…

It should satisfy conservative Texans to see liberals working so hard to help moderates. The moderates are only their second favorite group, but conservative Texans have put Team Liberal at the political children’s table where they belong, with rubber caps on their forks. Ross Ramsey of the liberal Texas Tribune wrote a piece for the…

This week Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) endorsed liberal Republican Vicki Truitt for re-election over a conservative challenger. Truitt has consistently been assailed by conservatives since a 2009 effort to raise taxes. While TLR’s actions these days are not universally anti-conservative its endorsements, including that of Truitt, are a sign of changing motivations at TLR…

Seliger gave a rare clear glimpse into his political paradigm, speaking with some freedom about his big government moderate views in his “Texas Politics Project” interview. The University of Texas at Austin’s “The Texas Politics Project” is a series of friendly discussions almost exclusively featuring liberal and moderate politicians. Over three posts we’ll examine this…

Evan Smith, CEO of the Texas Tribune, while speaking to a group of environmentalists last month noted a mechanism deployed by liberals in 2011 to come to fruition in 2013: a false mandate to spend down state savings. Moderates and liberals want us to believe the Rainy Day Fund is gone so they can move…

Two of the popular talking points for campaigning Republicans worried about their conservative authenticity are: 1) the passage of voter ID and 2) the passage of the sonogram bill. Yes, these things happened, and against the maneuvering of many of the people bragging loudest about these accomplishments, but these two things also serve to contextualize…

Getting played by the establishment is like getting sold a car you didn’t need. Most of the time you either didn’t notice the play or you actually enjoyed it. That doesn’t change the fact that the salesman played you out of your money. The education hustle is on in the Texas ruling class. Really, it’s…

Tx libs turning BB guns on school funding Currently liberals are employing a deceptive school funding ploy. Despite highest – ever levels of education spending from the state, liberals and the media are claiming their funding has been brutally cut. Things are ramping up on the education front for liberals, to be sure, with longtime…