The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a pleasant fall equinox as it brings you this week’s roundup.
This week on Left of College Station, Teddy analyzes at what positions Chet Edwards and Bill Flores take on American foreign policy, and looks at what the polls look like as the primaries end and the general election begins. Left of College Station also covers the week in headlines.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notes that Texas remains 6th in the nation as poverty levels soar. What are republicans doing about it? Defunding education and health care, two of the most important pillars of success for Texans.
It’s been a terrible week for Todd Staples. It’s rare that the failure of a public official is so glaringly obvious. It’s exceedingly rare for the coverup of that failure to be bungled quite so badly. Then again, it’s not often that said public official is facing Hank Gilbert.
Off the Kuff commented on the proposal to create an elections administrator in Harris County.
Both Rick Perry and Todd Staples committed their own comedies of errors, preserved forever on video. See PDiddie’s Brains and Eggs and LYAO.
Dembones at Eye On Williamson highlights the less than truthful attack of Diana Maldonado’s opponents, Maldonado fires back over debate flap.
At TexasKaos, lightseeker takes on the overblown conventional wisdom of a Republican landslide in November. Give a read: Self-fulfilling Prophecy and Midterms.
Neil at Texas Liberal used a picture he took this week of an unattended lifeguard station in Galveston to show how the Tea Party/Republican Party would govern America.