The religious right once again thought a campaign of fear and bigotry would work. Tens of thousands of dollars funded attack mailers sent out to Houston voters. The same voters heard dark warnings about gays taking over their city’s government. Families and children, they were told, were in danger. It was, in short, a classic […]
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Funniest Protest Signs of 2009
We couldn’t resist this. Check out Huffington Post’s compilation of the funniest protest signs of 2009. […]
President Obama vs. Charlie Brown?
Texas Republican Party Chair Cathie Adams isn’t the only right-winger to attack President Obama’s personal faith and make other bizarre charges about the nation’s chief executive. Plenty of other political figures and commentators on the fringe right continue to suggest (or claim outright) that the president is a closet Muslim, that he hates white people […]
Dunbar Issues Statement: She’s Out
Texas State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar has now released a statement explaining that she will not seek re-election to her seat next year. She used her announcement to endorse Brian Russell, an Austin attorney and State Republican Executive Committee member, as her replacement. Russell has already announced his intention to seek the seat and […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “They think because there are 92 precincts in McLennan County, we need to have 92 precinct chairs. What they fail to understand is about half of those precincts are minority precincts, and you’re not going to find any Republicans in them.” — M.A. Taylor, longtime head of the McLennan County Republican […]
