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September 18, 2024 10:23 AM
Commissioner Ramirez accuses Chair French of using party resources to attack him after defying O’Hare on college campus voting
FORT WORTH
–– The Tarrant County GOP intra-party fighting ramped up this
week as the county party passed a resolution condemning County Commissioners Manny
Ramirez and Gary
Fickes for defying County Judge Tim O’Hare, a fellow Republican, when
they voted to keep five college campuses as polling sites.
Some “conservative”
activists and Rep. Nate Shatzline vocally supported O’Hare’s
proposal but the vast majority of those who testified at a public meeting last
week strongly objected, arguing among other things that expanded voting opportunities
were good for candidates in both parties.
The two
Republican commissioners joined with Democrats Alissa Simmons and Roy
Brooks to preserve the 51 voting long-standing voting locations.
After O’Hare
and Ramirez ended up on opposite sides of the vote, the knives came out.
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September 18, 2024 10:19 AM
As
the Harris/Walz ticket roared out of the Democratic Convention, it was fired
up, confident...and probably, at best, in a dead heat given the Electoral
College advantage for Republicans and a recent history of polls underestimating
GOP strength. As much as the pundits
called Harris’ debate performance a decisive victory over an angry and
defensive Donald Trump, there’s really no indication that this race will not be
a November nail biter. So why is a
comparison the Harris campaign with the patron saint of underdog candidates,
Harry S. Truman in 1948, apt? Popular
history focuses on Truman's famous "give 'em
hell" campaign vitality, but it was the impact of the almost forgotten
powerful Democratic down-ballot strength that year that was crucial in lifting
his chances. In a 1948/2024 comparison,
in this year’s swing states, the roster of experienced and popular statewide
Democratic candidates, along with the presence of reproductive rights referenda
on the ballot, could once again provide the Democrats with a decisive edge.
In
the political history of presidential elections, few stories are as mythic as
Truman’s non-stop campaign across the country, the legend that propelled him to
victory. He gave more than 250 speeches,
many from the rear platform of trains, that covered more than 20,000 miles,
where he was seen by as many as ten million people. He railed against what he
called a Republican “do-nothing” Congress while his opponent, New York Governor
Thomas Dewey, seemed to wait for his inevitable victory. Truman barnstormed
across Ohio, thought to be hopeless for him, whereas Dewey, despite pleas from
the state party, made a single speech in Cleveland.
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September 17, 2024 4:18 PM
An apparent push to find a sole GOP alternative to Phelan seems to be shaping up; members thought to be solidly on “Team Phelan” say they’re being excluded with at least one exception
It’s
not clear how many will attend, but Quorum Report has confirmed
that a not-so-secret gathering of some Texas House Republican
members is planned for Friday morning with a goal of figuring out which of them
could potentially mount a credible challenge to Speaker Dade Phelan.
This
is after several GOP lawmakers – and one Democrat – have announced against the
Beaumont Republican but have yet to gain any significant traction with their colleagues
and ahead of the November election when the partisan makeup of the chamber for
next session will be settled.
So,
what’s the deal?
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September 17, 2024 7:41 AM
Sources also tell Bloomberg that federal prosecutors in Texas had drafted bribery and obstruction charges against state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) before the US Justice Department took over the case in early 2023
Bloomberg
Law
reporter Ryan Autullo has
the scoop:
Federal
prosecutors in Texas had drafted bribery and obstruction charges against state
Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) before the US Justice Department
took over the case in early 2023, according to a person familiar with the
investigation.
Now
almost two years later, the probe into Paxton’s alleged bribery and misuse of
office has continued, including in a recent deposition of Aaron Reitz,
Paxton’s former deputy for legal strategy and now Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s
chief of staff, another source said. Appearing before a grand jury on Aug. 6 in
Austin, Reitz answered prosecutors’ questions about Paxton’s termination of
whistleblower employees in 2020, a source said.
Reitz’s
testimony shows that prosecutors are moving forward in interrogating Paxton
aides after a federal appeals court ruled in June that they must testify
because they aren’t entitled to attorney-client privilege.
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September 16, 2024 3:48 PM
The challenger, Averie Bishop, has pointed to polls showing the Dallas County race to be within a point or two
The
polling memo is
here.
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September 16, 2024 3:43 PM
The county argued the applications were already mailed out and so Paxton is late on this
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September 15, 2024 7:30 PM
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September 13, 2024 8:42 PM
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September 13, 2024 1:34 PM
Power players, lobby moves, staffer moves, and more
The
first and perhaps only presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala
Harris is now in the rearview mirror and some Texas-centric issues were
front and center for much of it. Immigration, abortion, and oil and gas production
were hotly debated by the major party nominees, even if the candidates’
comments on fracking were meant more for Pittsburgh than the Permian. Jeremy
Wallace and I will break it all down for you on the latest edition of the Texas
Take Podcast, which will drop here
later today.
Meantime,
some power players around here are dropping career news in the pages of Quorum
Report today.
You
know the drill: The most efficient and effective way to inform the Texas
Capitol community about where you’ve landed on the board is to send the
scoop to ksbraddock@gmail.com and use
POTM in the subject line. Send it whenever you like and
it’ll be in the next edition of People on the Move published on
Fridays.
Here’s
the latest POTM:
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September 12, 2024 4:24 PM
The GOP commissioners both bucked Judge O’Hare in a bipartisan vote to keep voting locations in areas where students may turn out in big numbers in November
FORT WORTH
– Tarrant County Commissioners Court defied County Judge Tim
O’Hare today after Commissioners Manny Ramirez and Gary Fickes
voted with Democrats Alissa Simmons and Roy Brooks to include
college campuses as early voting sites among the 51 voting locations.
The
special meeting came after commissioners failed to pass on a 2-2 vote on the
list of 50 proposed sites last week. Ramirez was not present at that meeting.
O’Hare was
criticized for scheduling today’s special meeting while Simmons and Brooks were
out of town. Ultimately Simmons and Brooks, who were in Washington, D.C. for an
event by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, attended
virtually.
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