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24 Oct 2023, 7:41 am by Kate Huddleston
He was in the office for 45 minutes at the same time as Texas Republican Party chair Matt Rinaldi, who has disclaimed any meeting and disavowed Fuentes. [read post]
27 May 2021, 9:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This was the year the far-right wing of the party finally got its wish list they'd been denied in the 20 years since Republicans took power in Texas: The entire legislative session was about abortion, guns, jingoism, and "backing the blue. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 8:05 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  (Again, correlation.)The story at UF was a combination of a dynamic dean (Laura Rosenbury, now the President of Barnard College) and a state Republican Party that had not yet been overtaken by the anti-woke (or, as I prefer to call it, pro-coma) panic. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 12:08 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Right on Crime monthly newsletter includes this fascinating commentary about changing attitudes in the Republican party on criminal justice as reflected in the party's platform::Although the Republican National Convention is over, the GOP's 2012 platform includes some exciting policy shifts for criminal justice reform.Rejecting a "one size fits all" approach to crime and prisons, the GOP's 2012 platform includes new provisions that… [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 8:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In 2018, Texas candidates in both parties tended to view justice reform as a popular crossover issue with legs. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 1:08 pm
Garcia is a former police officer and a Houston city councilmember.Spoiling any pretensions of one-party dominance, however, former District Judge Pat Lykos, a Republican, appears to have pulled off a nailbiting upset over former Houston police chief Clarence Bradford in the Harris County District Attorney's race, possibly a result of voters' rocky memories of his tenure as Houston's top cop. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 3:58 am by SHG
No, Texas, he doesn’t really love you. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 12:40 am
Unlike voters in seven other Texas counties who were trying to cast a straight-party Democratic ballot when the flipping occurred, the Bexar County voter was not voting a straight-party ticket. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 1:46 pm by Stanley Radtke
“That will be the comeback vote, in all likelihood, for after the next break,” Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Senate Republican, said Wednesday. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 1:46 pm by Anonymous
“That will be the comeback vote, in all likelihood, for after the next break,” Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Senate Republican, said Wednesday. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 1:17 pm
It looks like both parties sent letters to the Secretary of State, and the Republican Party’s letter had a kind of placeholder (”John McCain and his running mate”) that they supplemented after Palin’s nomination. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 8:04 pm
Open dissent within party ranks provides Republicans with openings to exploit. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 7:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But the underlying opinions of the Republican base almost certainly remain the same.Some Texas business interests, on the other hand, are ready for the wave of nativism that's swept through the Grand Old Party to subside. [read post]
19 May 2008, 1:59 pm
"Everytime the RNC (Republican National Committe) and the DNC try new technologies, they're really scared," he says. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 1:26 am
Texas elects our judges, and in the case of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals we have elected a group who Texas Monthly has called "Texas' worst court," and who continue to affirm draconian sentences in the face of legitimate "actual innocence" claims.First DNA wasn't good enough to exonerate someone, now they're relying on narrowly construed technicalities to refuse to consider new evidence in a death case. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 11:00 am
But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 9:23 am
Dallas County has officially flipped and the 2010 countywide races will be a real transition point, one imagines, for that long-time Republican bastion.Overall, though, it was a Republican night in most Texas judicial contests, despite President-elect Obama's national whipping of Texas' much-preferred presidential choice. [read post]
29 May 2009, 1:22 pm
The Republican Party was the original home of the "Massachusetts Liberal. [read post]