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La Profesora Abstraída (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Wow. Brian told me this morning about reading Ann Richards's DNC speech from 1988 . It could have been given at this year's convention. I had the opportunity to hear Ann Richards speak twice while in high school. She could have you giggling one minute and crying the next. I'll never forget her pointing out that its the same company that makes Sara Lee desserts and uncomfortable girdles...
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South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Remember when politicians cared about public education? Oh, yeah. That's when Democrats and pre-Ron Reagan Republicans were in charge. Dan Richards, a son of former Governor Ann Richards, fought back tears as he spoke of the pride he felt that a building at South Texas College was being named after his mother. On June 2, 1993, Gov. Richards signed into law Senate Bill 251 to establish...
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the oldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, will appear on Larry King Live tonight on CNN, Garner Selby reports . After McCain's recent upswing in national tracking polls has been largely attributed to his selection of Sarah Palin, Richards may use her time on Larry King to lay out why Palin is the wrong...
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Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the oldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, will appear on Larry King Live tonight on CNN, Garner Selby reports . After McCain's recent upswing in national tracking polls has been largely attributed to his selection of Sarah Palin, Richards may use her time on Larry King to lay out why Palin is the wrong...
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Thought Theater (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Buenas noches, mis amigos! I am delighted to be here with you this evening because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds...
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Eleventh Avenue South (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... veteran political operative Karl Rove.In 1994, to engage in a whisper campaign against then-Gov. Ann Richards, a Democrat. The campaign started by attacking Richard's status as a single woman and then devolved into criticizing her appointment of several gay and lesbian Texans to government positions.The circumstances were ripe for Rove to encourage surrogates to ask around if she might be...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... end of a political battle and unemployed as a result. He had
been a campaign staffer for Governor Ann Richards in Austin, Texas, who
lost her re-election bid to none other than George W. Bush. But Jones
wouldn't be defeated. He reflected on the experience, licked his wounds,
came to Washington, and founded PoliTemps.
Now, PoliTemps is marking its 12-year anniversary, and Jones finds
himself...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... . Soccer Mom . . . Gidget Goes to St. Paul" is with us to stay. She has been described as a "young Ann Richards on steroids," and although Ann's liberal fans resent the comparison, just like Ann out of Texas - Sarah has come out of nowhere. One of my pet astrologers, Maxine Fiel, says Sarah has a combo of portentous signs - Mars is in its friendly relationship to Aquarius. She is almost...
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I Am A TV Junkie, A Blog For The Cl (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... she has the clout and the contacts to mount a one-woman show about one of her heroes, former Gov. Ann Richards of Texas, which she plans to write and perform next year. That's something I'd be interested in seeing. Richards was a pretty larger-than-life woman and I can't think of anyone who could do her personality justice like Holland Taylor. More on Richards from her Washington...
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UK Against Fluoridation (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Donations to the fighting fund: Hampshire Against Fluoridation Ann Richards 4 South Road, Hayling Island, Hampshire PO11 9AE Tel: 023 9246 3761 nofluoride@gmail.com Donations urgently needed please help us prevent this unpopular dangerous practice in Southampton. The last of our money is paying for more leaflets to counter the propaganda funded by the bottomless pit of money that the SCSHA and...
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Open Source (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Anna Deavere Smith: grace notes Anna Deavere Smith works barefoot on stage — the better to walk in the words of the people she’s impersonating; perhaps also to summon Walt Whitman, who said we’d feel his spirit “under your bootsoles.” Actress and documentarian, Anna Deavere Smith is all feeling, no bootsoles. Her new show is “a [...]
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I Love Beer (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Breaking news from Spoetzl Brewery: Continuing the line-up changes to their seasonal offerings, Shiner Dunkelweizen will be going the way of the dinosaur. Too bad — I'll miss that cool label with the bats emerging from beneath the Ann Richards (formerly Congress Avenue) Bridge. However, the replacement sounds interesting. From Spoetzl's PR man: Shiner will be releasing a new winter seasonal...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
... committee at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Gwynedd.Since 1956, he had been married to Ann Richards Cook. He kept up his interest in music, his wife said, and was a founding member in 1978 of the Pennsylvania Jazz Society. Their grandson, Brian Schultz, who plays drums in a band, took his first lessons from his grandfather. Mr. Cook was a Civil War buff and model-train hobbyist,...
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The Eagle Business (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... permitting process.Midland oilman Clayton Williams, who lost the 1990 governor's race to Democrat Ann Richards, pressed the commission to spend as much as $3 million to immediately begin hiring more people to process permits and more regulators to oversee activity in the booming Texas oil fields."You have less people and more work to do," Williams said. "You need more money."The commission...
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University of Florida News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
... last week to endorse Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Leverty, who worked for Texas Gov. Ann Richards for four years, believes NOW’s choice may resonate with some independent voters. NOW had not endorsed a presidential candidate since Geraldine Ferraro, the first female candidate for vice president, ran with Walter Mondale in 1984. Leverty said NOW chose Obama not to snub Palin but...
