New chamber president focuses on hard work, new ideas
Ronnie Baker / Staff photo – Plano Chamber of Commerce President Jamee Jolly.

Carnahan Not Meeting Expectations in Mo.
Up is down in this cycle’s Senate race in Missouri.

Koster vs. Larsen: Congressional candidates locked in fierce rematch
Rick Larsen and John Koster come from the same hometown, graduated from the same high school and share a career choice of politics. One other thing these Arlington natives have in common: a healthy dislike for one another.

Marriott Directs Cash to Republicans for Immigration Rules He May Not Get
By more than a 5-to-1 margin, campaign contributions from J.W. Marriott Jr. are flowing toward Republicans this year. For his generosity, the Marriott International Inc . chairman may find the party thwarting changes in immigration law his company wants.

Green Auto Announces Special Shareholders Meeting
DALLAS, TX–(Marketwire – October 13, 2010) – Green Automotive Company, Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : GACR ) announced today that the Company will have a Special Shareholders Meeting on Monday, November 1 st , 2010 at the Addison Conference Center, Addison, TX for shareholders of record as of September 30 th , 2010.

THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Commentary
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Terminator, aka the Governator, is not happy. And you shouldn’t be either.

Iranian women study Bay State
They had never met a lobbyist before. Or a female judge. Or a state lawmaker.

Liquor Commission chairman finally gets hearing in bar case
The long-awaited hearing on whether to remove state Liquor Commission Chairman Mark Bodi, of Manchester, from office will start before Gov. John Lynch and the Executive Council on Monday morning and could run through the week. Sessions are already set for Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings and Wednesday afternoon in the Legislative Office Building. As The Telegraph first reported in February …

Longtime Texas auto industry lobbyist Fondren dies
Associated Press – October 13, 2010 11:05 AM ET AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gene Fondren, a former state lawmaker who became a lobbylist and led the Texas Automobile Dealers Association for more than…

DREAM Act lobbyists are spotlighting heart-wrenching stories of high-achieving teens brought to this country when they were toddlers. But instead of arguing for case-by-case dispensations, the protesters want blanket pardons. The broadly-drafted Senate bill would confer benefits on applicants up to age 35 and the House bill contains no age
ceiling at all. The academic achievement requirements are minimal. Moreover, illegal aliens who didn’t arrive in the country until they turned 15 – after they laid down significant roots in their home country – would be eligible for DREAM Act benefits and eventual U.S. citizenship. And like past amnesty packages, the Democrat plan is devoid of any concrete eligibility and enforcement mechanisms to deter already-rampant immigration benefit fraud.

The DREAM Act sponsors have long fought to sabotage a clearly worded provision in the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that states:

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.” Ten states defied that federal law and offered DREAM Act-style tuition preference to illegal aliens: California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Washington. The last time the DREAM Act champions tried to tack their scheme onto a larger
immigration proposal, they snuck in language that would absolve those ten states of their law-breaking by repealing the 1996 law retroactively–and also offering the special path to green cards and citizenship for illegal alien students.

Despite the obvious electoral advantage this plan would give Democrats, several pro-illegal alien amnesty Republicans crossed the aisle to support the DREAM Act, including double-talking Sens. John McCain, Richard Lugar, Bob Bennett, Sam Brownback, Norm Coleman, Susan Collins, Larry Craig, Chuck Hagel, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mel Martinez,
Olympia Snowe, and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (who champions even greater illegal alien student benefits than those proposed by Democrats). After paying lip service to securing the borders, McCain promised DREAM Act demonstrators this week that he supported the bill and would work to “resolve their issues.”

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