Texas’ unemployment rate of is at 8.1%, the state budget is
in the tank , the illegal alien population costs Texas about
$5.9 billion yearly.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS180781+11-Mar-2009+PRN20090311
because he does not care about Americans an unemployment here how many does he have working for him
Does Texas have any plan by which the people can make or propose laws? If so, how does it differ from other plans? Is the plan a part of the state constitution, or has it been established by legislation? Thanks in advance!
do you mean dose texas have a constitution? if thats your question the answer is yes
If you are talkin United States Senators they are Kay Baily-Hutchison(The Senior senator) & John Cornyn. Both are Republicans
if not, can i write him in?
I believe he is on the ballot. If he isn’t you can always write in any name you want.
How honest do you think the Texas Board of Education is behaving?
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(Reprinted from CFI newsletter)
Texas? New Science Curriculum: Win, Lose, or Draw?
By Clare Wuellner
On March 27th, the Texas State Board of Education approved the science curriculum. The good news was that the wording “strengths and weaknesses,” which required students be introduced to erroneous “evidence” that seemingly weakened the theory of evolution, was voted out of the science curriculum.
The bad news was that they made nine amendments that were just as unscientific as teaching “weaknesses” of theories, but that will hopefully not do as much damage. (For a complete breakdown of the amendments and an evaluation of their potential use and abuse, see Paul Murray’s “Cultural Noise “ blog entry for April 1st 2009.)
Because the damage these nine amendments will do depends on how textbook publishers respond and how the 2011 State Board of Education weilds its responsibility, both anti-science and pro-science folks see potential for a “win.”
Between now and January 2011:
* Texas will have a gubernatorial election (the governor appoints the SBOE chair);
* seven of the fifteen SBOE members will be up for re-election;
* Don McLeroy’s nomination to chairman of the SBOE will not be confirmed because the Senate is not likely to give the 2/3 majority vote required. This is wonderful news! BUT what is likely to happen now is that Gov. Perry will nominate one of the other young-earth creationists to be chair during the summer, when the Senate is not in session, thus circumventing the approval process. Bottom line: we don’t know who the new chair of the SBOE will be;
* there are at this writing seventeen bills introduced in the Texas Legislature that could have serious impact on the SBOE, the science curriculum, or both (an excellent resource for tracking these bills is at http://www.tfn.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Bills2009);
* pro-science organizations, like CFI Austin, will be campaigning for the best possible interpretation of the new science curriculum standards in textbooks; and
* unfortunately anti-science organizations will be campaigning equally hard for the interpretation of the new science curriculum standards to be as pro-creationist as possible.
So, there you have it in a nutshell. There are too many variables for anyone to predict an outcome. For now, the battle rages on.
Clare Wuellner is the executive director of CFI/Austin
lmao McLeroy is my representative. He’s the one I had to petition to stop creation from becoming, *gag*, science. Who cares what happens in Texas? Everyone should. The textbooks in the united states classrooms are chosen here! Wake up, America!!!
Yes, Gee, the purpose of religion is truly over. People need to understand that this is a good thing! We are evolving!
Arlen Spector left the Republican Party for the Democratic – who has gone the other way? Anyone in recent years?
It was awhile ago, but Ronald Reagan did.
Back when Andrew Jackson was in office (the last time all debt was paid off) and shut down the central bank(s) the Republican party was called the Democratic Republican Party. Why did they drop the Democratic part. They still believe in democracy don`t they or it harder to restrain people with a democracy, or is it that when you believe the human is ultimately bad you cannot have a democracy.
lol ok if you say so
you really might want to look at your liberal politicAL party
Barbour, a former chair of the Republican National Committee and a longtime uber-lobbyist, has a record rife with corruption and cronyism that includes exploiting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to profit his allies. Here are some lowlights:
Family members and lobbyists profited from Katrina tragedy: Among the beneficiaries are Barbour’s own family and friends, who have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from hurricane-related business. A nephew, one of two who are lobbyists, saw his fees more than double in the year after his uncle appointed him to a special reconstruction panel.
Owned controlling interest in 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming company: For nearly two hours on election day 2002, subcontractors for the telemarketing firm GOP Marketplace tied-up Democratic and union phone banks with repeated hang up calls. Multiple GOP officials eventually either pled guilty to or were convicted of criminally violating federal communications law. Barbour’s investment group, Helm Partners, was not only a major investor in GOP Marketplace, but it also held a controlling interest in the firm.
As a lobbyist, he represented firm indicted in Tom DeLay’s money laundering scandal: As a lobbyist for Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Barbour represented The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care Inc., a corporate coalition of 14 of the country’s largest for-profit nursing home companies. The Alliance wrote a check for $100,000 that ended up illegally funding Republican candidates for the Texas statehouse in 2002. The check was eventually used as evidence in the case that led to indictments for money laundering against former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX).
A former tobacco lobbyist, he killed Mississippi’s successful anti-smoking program: From 1998 to 2002, Barbour’s lobbying firm was paid a total of $3.8 million by the tobacco companies. As governor of Mississippi, he led an effort to defund and ultimately kill the state’s anti-smoking program, considered to be the nation’s most successful anti-smoking programs.
Directed large amounts of reconstruction funds to wealthy homeowners: Barbour and Mississippi’s two Republican Senators steered an unprecedented $23.5 billion in federal reconstruction aid, but by waiving a HUD requirement that 70 percent of the funds are supposed to be allocated to low- and moderate-income people. Barbour badly skewed the funds towards wealthy homeowners, with only 25 percent reaching the poorer segments of the population.
thanks Kscott? I was just cutting and pasting. Do you actually have a comment?
On July 7, 2009, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will conduct a hearing to review proposals to build a clean energy economy and reduce global warming pollution. Perhaps the most prominent of all the witnesses will be Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS).
Barbour has long been at the intersection of special interest lobbying, elections, and campaign cash. He represents cash and carry politics at its worst.
• The oil & gas and utility industries were major contributor to his Mississippi gubernatorial campaigns, providing over $1.8 million in campaign cash. [National Institute on Money in State Politics, Accessed 7/2/09]
• According to the Center for Responsive Politics, coal companies and electric utilities lavished over half a million dollars on Barbour’s firm during his last two years as CEO and chairman, in 1998 and 1999. After taking time off to work on advisory committees for the presidential campaign of George B. Bush, Barbour returned to the firm in 2001. With the addition of new clients, including from the oil & gas industry, the firm made over a million dollars a year in dirty energy profits by the time he left again for his 2003 gubernatorial run, with $2.24 million in total for 2001-2002. [Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 7/2/09]
Republicans just don’t care who the step on or use. While I was checking his background I found some info that makes him even lower in my opinion:
In 1982, Barbour was the Republican candidate for United States Senate but lost to incumbent Democrat John C. Stennis.[3] During this failed bid for Senator a controversy arose at a campaigning stump. According to The New York Times, in the presence of the press an aide was complaining to Barbour that "coons" were going to be at a campaign stop at the state fair. Barbour warned the aide, in front of reporters, that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be "reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."[4]
Barbour has been accused of personally profiting from Hurricane Katrina recovery.[45] Barbour is an owner of the parent company of lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers Inc., and he receives a pension and profit-sharing plan benefits from it.[45] The lobbying firm has lobbied the state to give recovery contracts to its clients.[45] Some of the proceeds of the firm’s lobbying activities are deposited into Barbour’s investment account.[45] According to Barbour’s attorney, a blind trust executed in 2004 prevents Barbour knowing the composition of his investments in order to eliminate any conflicts of interest.[45]
Barbour has also received criticism for his refusal to approve a bill to increase the cigarette tax and decrease the grocery tax passed the state House of Representatives. Mississippi currently has the third-lowest cigarette tax and the highest grocery tax—while being the poorest state in the country. Barbour stated that the lack of revenue generated after the tax swap would quite possibly result in bankrupting the state government which was already fragile due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The House of Representatives could produce no figures to dispute this assertion. Also, in his successful 2004 campaign, Barbour ran on the platform that he would veto any tax increase.[46] The criticism was compounded by the fact that he broke his anti-tax pledge by advocating higher hospital bed taxes.[47]
Fred Thompson’s campaign finance investigation found that Barbour, as RNC chair, was involved in illegally raising money from overseas sources.[48]
In September 2008, Democrats accused Barbour of trying to influence the outcome of the 2008 Senate race by placing the candidates at the bottom of the ballot. Since Mississippi electoral law mandates the placing of federal elections at the top of the ballot, Barbour was ordered by a circuit court to comply with the ballot laws.[49]
In 1991, Barbour helped found Barbour & Rogers, LLC[5], a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm, with Ed Rogers, a lawyer who formerly worked in the George H. W. Bush administration. In 1994, Lanny Griffith (also a former Bush Administration appointee) joined the firm to form Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, LLC. In 1998, Fortune magazine named Barbour Griffith & Rogers the second-most-powerful lobbying firm in America.[6] In 2001, after the inauguration of George W. Bush, Fortune named it the most powerful.[7] The firm has made millions of dollars lobbying on behalf of the tobacco industry.[8]
2003 campaign
Main article: Mississippi gubernatorial election, 2003
After two decades in Washington, D.C., Barbour announced in 2003 his intention to run for governor of Mississippi. On August 5, 2003, he won the Republican gubernatorial primary over Canton trial attorney Mitch Tyner. Barbour’s campaign manager was his nephew Henry Barbour.
During the campaign a controversy arose when Barbour chose to speak at the Blackhawk Rally, a fundraiser for the Blackhawk "council school" in Blackhawk, Mississippi. Such "council schools", also referred to in Mississippi lexicon as "academies", were established by the White Citizens’ Council movement in reaction to the demands for racial integration by the American Civil Rights movement. The Blackhawk rally was hosted by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC or CofCC). The key element of Citizens’ Councils has traditionally been opposition to racial integration in public schools.
Well, the Texas senate is not very well paid. You will still need gainful employment, so the benefit is less to run especially if there is a chance to loose. There is also the issue of campaigning. It costs money and will require accepting donations. That means accounting and decent support. But if you notice a lack of Republican candidates, put yourself on the ballot next time.
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