Hank Gilbert, the Democratic rancher from Whitehouse, filed to run against Kinky Friedman in the race to become Agriculture Commissioner.
Gilbert said he will represent the small and mid-sized farm that have been locked out of decision-making in Austin by "big factory farmers and their high powered lobbyists."
The winner [...]
Collin County has used Diebold's electronic voting machines for several years now, and not without incident. In the 2004 presidential election, a Diebold machine "locked-up" at one polling place, and election officials were unable to get the vote counts from the memory card. The votes were finally counted a [...]
Tom Fahey writes, "House blocks introduction of home invasion bill," for the Union Leader.
Leaders of the New Hampshire House yesterday blocked the late introduction of a bill that would punish home invasion murders with the death penalty.
In rejecting the bill's late arrival, Democratic lawmakers said an identical proposal is moving ahead in [...]
Many gay activists across the United States are cheering the election of openly gay Mayor-Elect Annise Parker and her victory over Gene Locke in the Houston mayoral runoff--and [...]
Well Annise spoke candidly in her first press conference:
“Mr. Locke was a rookie candidate and he made a lot of rookie mistakes,” Parker said, noting that her staff has remained pretty much intact over the last seven campaigns, while the Locke camp suffered several upheavals.
Besides the change [...]
Last night, our own Texas city of Houston became the largest to elect an openly-gay mayor. City controller Annise Parker defeated former city attorney Gene Locke with 53.6 percent of the vote in the hotly contested runoff election. She takes office as mayor Jan. 1. While we have long way to go [...]
I’ll go through them one race at a time, with the unofficial vote totals minus Montgomery County for each. Once I have precinct results, I’ll go through those and do a more detailed analysis.
Mayor
Annise Parker – 81,971, 52.78%
Gene Locke – 73,331, 47.22%
This was perhaps a bit closer than one [...]
Finally Texans got it right. Houston the nations fourth largest city has elected Annise Parker as their next Mayor in a run off race with Gene Locke. Hopefully this will wake the rest of the state up that Texans are moving away from the Rick [...] With 89 percent of precincts counted, Parker holds a lead of nearly 8,000 voters, a divide that former City Attorney Gene Locke cannot make up with the relatively small pool [...]
If [...]
This was the top story on the 5 PM news.
The final 11News/KUHF Houston Public Radio poll shows Controller Annise Parker has a 13-point lead over former City Attorney Gene Locke.
In the poll, which was conducted this week by the Center for Civic Engagement at Rice University, likely [...]
The Houston Chronicle claims Lock is a deal maker in city politics. Wheeling and dealing in smoke filled back rooms is just what the city needs. It worked for Lee Brown didn't it? And Mayor Lanier. Right? So what is wrong with a little deal making like all politicians do?' [...]
As we know, Ned Holmes, the finance chair for the Gene Locke campaign, made a $20,000 donation to Steven Hotze’s Conservative Republicans of Harris County PAC just before Hotze sent out his homophobic mailer to voters. Holmes claims that the timing is coincidental because he’s a longtime supporter [...]
Fear has been eliminated from the human mind for the first time in a series of pioneering experiments that could open the way to treating a range of phobias and anxiety disorders with behavioural therapy rather than drugs.
Scientists have selectively blocked thoughts of fear by interfering [...]
Yes, it does indeed appear that Gene [...]
Muse has a very interesting post about Locke losing control of his campaign because of his interview on KHOU TV. Locke claims he knew nothing about his finance chair, Ned Holmes, $20,000 donation to finance the Steven Hotze hate mailer. According to his interview Locke was "disappointed" in [...]
