NYC Consigliere’s Corner Friday, February 12, 2010 “The most important political office is that of the private citizen” Justice Louis D. Brandeis Were it not clear before yesterday in the manner which Glenn Beck sandbagged and set a trap for surging Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina who was rising in the polls and closing in [...]

by Adrian Murray, Fort Worth 912 President on Feb 12, 2010 I was born in Dublin, Ireland 38 years after the 1916 Easter Rising in which a band of Irish patriots rose up against oppressive British rule of their country. After an initial success in taking over the Dublin General Post Office, the rebellion eventually [...]

by Abby Rapoport February 9, 2010 Anna Dragsbaek has worked quietly for years to build support for expanding the state’s immunization registry, a database of vaccines given to Texans. Now, Dragsbaek, the executive director of the Texas-based Immunization Partnership, is ready for the spotlight: She and her allies are asking lawmakers to include all Texans [...]

I like it that Sarah Palin talks about smaller government, and that her very existence makes the lying incumbents in Washington nervous. I like that she cultivates a persona of simple straight talk – even innocence. But the problem with Sarah is that, like so many Americans, she’s never really thought too deeply about the [...]

February 8, 2010 In this MegaVote for Texas’ 30th Congressional District: Recent Congressional Votes Senate: M. Patricia Smith, of New York, to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor House: Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act Upcoming Congressional Bills House: Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act House: Intelligence Authorization Act, FY2010 Recent Senate Votes M. Patricia Smith, of [...]

CAMPAIGN 2010 AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry is far from having the Republican gubernatorial nomination sewn up, but a new poll indicates U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is in danger of having the bottom fall out of her campaign. The political newsletter Rasmussen Reports released a survey of likely Republican primary voters showing Perry leading [...]

Everyone should understand that this isn’t another Interstate Highway. It not just a jumbo-sized highway. This Corridor project is a very wide, very flat, extremely limited access, mostly toll, highway-rail-utility corridor. To cross the Corridor at any point will require a quarter-mile long overpass. “If there is no access to the small towns, it will [...]