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Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Last week, I took Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst to task for his ridiculous assertions that he, Rick Perry, and Joe Strauss didn't need the stimulus dollars to balance the budget. (David Dewhurst Spinning Lies that Texas Didn't Need Stimulus Dollars to Balance the Budget) Today, State Representative Jim Dunnam, who is Chair of the House Select Committee on Federal...
Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Just a great retort by state Rep. Jim Dunnam (D-Waco) to GOP Lt. Gov. David Dewhursts Op-Ed last week, Texas a fiscal wonderland? Now that’s pure fantasy. Up is down. Left is right. Black is white. It applies to Alice once she fell down that hole and walked through the looking glass. It applies equally to our Republican [...]
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
What Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says: Given recent comments about our state's budget, I feel it is time to separate fact from political fiction. The fact is, in stark contrast to the U. S. Congress, the Texas Constitution requires the Legislature to balance the state budget every two years, and that ...
Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst wrote an op-ed in today's Austin American-Statesman where he attempts to spin a lie that Texas didn't need stimulus dollars to balance the budget. From his op-ed : Given recent comments about our state's budget, I feel it is time to separate fact from political fiction. The fact is, in stark contrast to the U. S. Congress, the Texas Constitution...
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FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... So funny that a few hours later the newspaper’s editors felt compelled to run a post correcting Dewhurst’s claim. To make it even funnier, the truth was spelled out in no uncertain terms by the Republican chairman of the Senate Budget Committee in the Fort Worth Business Press on Monday: “In order to balance the budget this biennium, which is $182 billion, we used $14 billion in federal...
TTC News Archives (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Isett's chair to be filled Sunset panel to have new chief 10/4/09 By Enrique Rangel Amarillo Globe-News Copyright 2009 AUSTIN - Soon, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, the presiding officer of the Texas Senate, will appoint a new chairman of the Sunset Advisory Commission to follow Rep. Carl Isett, R-Lubbock. The powerful legislative panel evaluates about two dozen state agencies every two years...
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst spoke to students at the University of Texas about energy and told them Texas does not really exist. But he then added more to the statement. "Texas doesn't actually exist," Dewhurst said. "It's a state of...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... State Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, one of two senators recently tapped by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to monitor food stamps, said that adding employees might be a good long-term solution but isn’t an immediate fix. “I’m not sure that getting 250 or 500 people in there who don’t know what they’re doing is really going to solve this problem,” Williams said. “The only way out is...
TTC News Archives (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Commentary Texas a fiscal wonderland? Now that's pure fantasy 10/27/09 Jim Dunnam, Texas House of Representatives Austin American-Statesman Copyright 2009 Up is down. Left is right. Black is white. It applies to Alice once she fell down that hole and walked through the looking glass. It applies equally to our Republican leadership in Texas. Watching Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst...
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
At least that seems to be the implication in Lt. Governor David Dewhurst's Op-Ed yesterday in the Statesman entitled, How Texas Lives Within Its Means : “Given recent comments about our state’s budget, I feel it is time to separate fact from political fiction. The fact is, in stark contrast to the U. S. Congress, the Texas Constitution requires the Legislature to balance the...
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
postcards from the lege. which points out that this morning Dewhurst said in the A-AS that it is political fiction that stimulus dollars were neceesary to balance the budget. Oh.......
Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
There will be hard choices when in comes to balancing the state budge in Texas in 2011. With sales tax revenue slipping, and no federal stimulus, hard choices that wereavoided in 2009 will have to be faced in 2011. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst penned an Op-Ed for the AAS today, where he wants to set [...]
GregsOpinion.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... if it comes down to an election where he has no money to make his case, I think we all know that David Dewhurst (or even Greg Abbott) would love to drop a million or two defining the entire slate with his views.
Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... to monitor food stamp problems . But from the looks of it more help may be needed. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has tapped state Sens. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, and Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, to monitor problems with the state’s food stamp application processing, Zaffirini said today. [...] Zaffirini said she thinks the state should be collaborating more closely with food banks....
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Jason Embry notes that if Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison waits until January to officially resign, there could be a profound effect on the Republican ballot. If she announces a resignation date during the filing period (Dec. 3 – Jan. 4), then perhaps Republican candidates can make their adjustments accordingly. And the move that would set everything else in motion would be for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst...
