Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... and Comptroller Susan Combs are both known to have their eye on bigger things, as is Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, though all three are usually talked about as Governor hopefuls. But who knows? We could go from never having a contested Republican primary for a statewide non-judicial office to a free-for-all in multiple races next cycle. Whether or not the Democrats have broken through,...
Capitol Annex (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
I don’t know how we missed relishing in the fact that Lt. Governor David Dewhurst got booed at the GOP convention this past weekend, but since we did miss it, we thought we’d share it now: (Dewhurst was lustily booed later in the speech when he proposed putting Texans’ fingerprints on drivers’ licenses. We can’t remember the last time an elected Republican was booed at the state...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... without cause or approval, and 18 missed the mandatory testing without an excused absence.Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, one of the key figures in pushing the plan through the Legislature, was "encouraged" by the results Wednesday and feels the program's success should be measured by the number of students who never begin using steroids, said spokesman Mike Wintemute.A critic, Republican...
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The final results of steroid tests on student athletes confirmed the preliminary results by our Gary Scharrer, the UIL said today. The testing company found only two confirmed positive results out of 10,117 tests. At an annual cost of $3 million, some lawmakers want to end the program, a high-profile initiative of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
We have put together a database of this year's donations to Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, House Speaker Tom Craddick, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Comptroller Susan Combs and Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson. This database was built from reports...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst also are considering running in the Republican gubernatorial primary in two years, and Mrs. Hutchison leads the way in available campaign cash with $8.6 million on hand as of June 30. Mr. Perry had $2.9 million and Mr. Dewhurst had $803,878, according to their campaign finance reports.
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Exhibit A, courtesy Edd Hendee–a spreadsheet of CO property taxes. Compare with what you’re paying here. Remind me again–what’s Rick Perry’s, David Dewhurst’s and Tom Craddick’s excuse?
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... looks to be skidding toward a bloodbath in 2010, when insiders expect both Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, a hellfire-and-brimstone Christian conservative, and Senator Hutchison, who embodies the politer, Chamber of Commerce wing of the party (and says she's tired of Washington and wants to come home), to challenge Perry in the Republican primary. I don't know which insiders they...
Driive (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID DEWHURST It’s man against motherboard in this four-way flog of max-horsepower machines. Behold four machines sitting on the pointy end of a horsepower skyrocket that lifted off sometime in the 1980s and hasn’t hit the chutes yet. For now, anyone can buy these vehicles by flashing a valid driver’s license and a [...]
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
... largest among high schools in the country -- said the results validate their positions. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Monday he was pleased with the cursory results. "I pushed this important legislation through the Legislature because I knew it would deter our young people from wrecking their bodies and putting their lives at risk by using illegal steroids," Dewhurst said. "And...
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... we need to keep spending $3 million dollars a year to catch TWO kids using steroids? Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Monday he was pleased with the cursory results. “I pushed this important legislation through the Legislature because I knew it would deter our young people from wrecking their bodies and putting their lives at risk by using illegal steroids,” Dewhurst said. “And...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... the largest among high schools in the country — said the results validate their positions.Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Monday he was pleased with the cursory results."I pushed this important legislation through the Legislature because I knew it would deter our young people from wrecking their bodies and putting their lives at risk by using illegal steroids," Dewhurst said....
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
... saying that states should be free to pass death statutes for child rape.Texas Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, supporting death for “repeat child molesters," says, “Our top priority remains protecting our most precious resource — our children." (Huh? I thought in Texas it was oil.)Then there’s the FBI’s latest sweeping busts of child prostitution rings, which rescued 21 juveniles...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... state leaders criticized the Supreme Court's decision, it was especially a setback for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who put Jessica's Law at the top of his 2007 agenda. " Supreme Court rejects death penalty for child rapists ," by Diane Jennings in the Dallas Morning News. When Texas' leading politicians called loudly for the death penalty for repeat child rapists last year, they knew...
Sify (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... still in effect. Following the ruling, all become unconstitutional. In Texas, Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Wednesday that most Texans believe the death penalty is "an appropriate form of punishment for repeat child molesters. Our top priority remains protecting our most precious resource — our children." But the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, a nonprofit victim...
