Tag: Texas

Ice storms?

One bloggers opinion: Don’t get me started on how the “It’s Gonna Freeze! Get your portable radio and flashlights” mentality of television newscasts in markets where it rarely snows/sleets is nothing more than a conspiracy to drive people to the grocery stores to ramp up their profit margins so they can buy more TV commercials.
– Vince Leibowitz

50 most influential Christians

ChurchReport.com has released it’s list of the 50 most influential Christians in America. I wonder how that’s decided.
Joel Osteen from Houston is number one.
I still crack up when I see/think of the Texas Monthly cover with him on the front and “On the eighth day God created Joel Osteen”

Susan Combs interview

I just finished an interview with state comptroller candidate and current Ag Commissioner Susan Combs. I like her. She’s smart, sounds like she knows what’s going on — and I agree with (what I feel is) her belief in the role of the state comptroller.

The comptroller shouldn’t set the state’s budget rules and legislation, but give the executive and legislative branch the most complete and accurate information possible.

I’m afraid our current Comptroller Carole Strayhorn hasn’t done that.

Strayhorn is too interested in setting policy and deciding how the state should run the budget, rather than getting complete acurate information to the people who were elected to make those decisions.

And about that “steamy romance book…” she said it was just genre fiction that she had an opportunity to write and joked that she was dissapointed now that her current opponent has brought it up and its getting tons of free publicity, the publisher has closed and she’s not getting a dime from new books sales.

The book was written in 1987 and was brought up in her 92 and 97 elections and no one cared. I think she’s surprised it’s in any way an issue now.

I’m not a coward

According to DallasBlog.com, Gov. “McDreamy” has agreed to join the Oct. 5 debate hosted by local PBS affiliate KERA Channel 13.

Apparently Perry stood up to the challenge after being called out by a former wrestler.

Perry’s announcement comes after former Minnesota Gov. Jesse “The Body” Ventura, a Friedman supporter (and former WWF/WWE Superstar), denounced as “cowardly” any candidate who refuses to debate.

I guess Perry was afraid Ventura might pull out his signature Body Breaker move.

Here’s a breakdown on a Ventura v. Perry matchup:

Jesse “The Body” Ventura:
1-Time AWA World Tag Team Champion (with Adrian Adonis)
2-Time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion
5-Time NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Champion (with Bull Ramos twice, Buddy Rose twice and Jerry Oates)
1-Time NWA World Tag Team Champion (Central States version) (with Tank Patton)
2-Time Mid-Southern Heavyweight Champion
WWE Hall of Fame inductee; class of 2004.
1-Time Governor of Minnesota
Height & Weight: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 245 lb (110 kg)
Trained by: Eddie Sharkey

Gov. “McDreamy” “The Pit Bull” Perry:
3-Time State Legislature
2-Time Agricultural Commissioner
1-Time Lt. Governor
2-Time Governor of Texas (after the title was vacated by George W. Bush when he won the Leader of the Free World title belt)
Height & Weight: unknown
Trained by: Politicians

Boy if we could just throw politicians into a wrestling ring, I’m sure we could get rid of voter apathy. At least in the 18-30 male demographic.

Chris Bell comments on Kinky and Strayhorn

Chris Bell and me at a campaign stop in Waxahachie

I talked with Jason Stanford, a spokesperson for the Chris Bell campaign and he got a comment from the candidate for me (it was technically for the paper, but thought it was worth sharing here):

“Today shows why this race will come down to me and Rick Perry. While the independent candidates have to get non-voters to sign petitions and spend millions build statewide networks from scratch, I’m campaigning across South Texas and uniting a proven grassroots army called the Texas
Democratic Party.”

With four candidates this fall it should be interesting.