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On Sunday PaulBurka posted on whey he thinks tuition deregulation, or dereg, could be “the problem for Tom Craddick” in the upcoming speaker’s race. The way Craddick rammed dereg through the Texas House in 2003 - along with his unwillingness to change on the issue despite the GOP’s shrinking ranks in the house - [...]
To give credit where credit is due, PaulBurka has some excellent analysis of the Texas Supreme Court races. Here are excerpts from Burka's analysis: "The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court is an intellectually corrupt court. By this I mean that it is infused with the appearance of impropriety and inequity. Who you are matters more than the law and the facts. It has become a wholly...
Will Lutz is the long-time conservative political observer who publishes the subscription-only Lone Star Report. He allowed TexMo’s PaulBurka to republish this piece of pertinent advice to the Texas GOP. Bottom line: a house built on lobbyists and earmarks is a house built on sand.
If you can figure out how the Speaker’s race is going to play out, you’re a lot smarter than we are. Last week, Burnt Orange Report said (and painstakingly documented) that Tom Craddick simply doesn’t have the votes to stay on as speaker, while Texas Monthly’s PaulBurka countered that if Craddick doesn’t have the votes, [...]
... who have filed to run against Craddick, apparently skipped the festivities.Earlier this week, PaulBurka excerpted of the Republican Party. Written by the , who covered state government for a decade, it hit on a range of ills afflicting the GOP, not the least of which is the party’s cold, hard addiction to corporate cash:In short, big money isn’t principled; it’s self-interested....
Well, I suppose one great post deserves another: Yesterday, we wrote about Burnt Orange Report’s incisive take that Tom Craddick is done as speaker. Today, Texas Monthly’s PaulBurka responds: “This is the big fallacy of the BOR analysis: It is based upon anti-Craddick votes. But the only way to beat Craddick is for somebody else to get [...]
PaulBurka Predictions Texas House: R 76, D 74 The Next Speaker of the Texas House will be: Tom Craddick How the heck does Craddick retain his Speakership with that math??? PaulBurka is concern trolling about Democrat unity -- which he does just as much as we promote Democrat unity, to be honest -- and predicting that the TX House will be split 76-74 Republican, with Craddick...
PaulBurka has the numbers: In 2004, 346,729 voters either early or absentee voted, representing 28.16% of registered voters. In 2008, 508,070 have already voted, representing 42.05% of registered voters.
The title alone in today's liberal NY Times says it all: What I Will Miss About President Bush , by Robert Draper, Ari Fleischer, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jacob Weiberg, Scott McClellan and PaulBurka. Written by allegedly intelligent men, some of them professional writers (Draper, you may recall, is Bush's official biographer) and two former press secretaries (McClellan and Fleischer), this...
Get Texas Election Results via Twitter Tuesday. Sign up now here . PaulBurka says Hispanics aren't voting . He's probably partly right, but as they tend to vote on Election Day, we won't know until tomorrow night how right or wrong that is. Off the Kuff muses on projections for high turnout tomorrow. From the Texas Weekly chart , we know that the Top 15 represents 61.3% of registered...
... by the TDP to advocate for the Democratic slate of Supreme Court candidates. Allow me to quote PaulBurka here: The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court is an intellectually corrupt court. By this I mean that it is infused with the appearance of impropriety and inequity. Who you are matters more than the law and the facts. It has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Texans for Lawsuit...
The following is an unpaid advertisement for texasmonthly.com. There’s a new Election Daily video up on our homepage that you simply must watch. Or just go and click on it and then walk away from your computer. Mama needs some traffic. On today’s video, I talk with my driver PaulBurka, ticking off poll numbers and [...]
... found themselves in decades ago when their hold on Texas began to ebb. But it’s not just Kronberg, PaulBurka of Texas Monthly is seeing something similar : I regard this race as a hard choice. I don’t think Noriega is ready for the Senate, but he has come a long way since he first announced his candidacy. At the same time, I find myself in agreement with the Chronicle’s view — unstated,...
