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Nov. 11, 2011 News Feature
Headlines
"...by Democrat Karen Huber. Daugherty will vie for the GOP nomination against former Eanes ISD school board President Jim..."
Oct. 14, 2011 News Feature
It's the Stupid Economy
Fact-checking Perry's campaign against Texas' financial realities
"...the Texas Enterprise Fund. Even diehard friends to the GOP like Tom DeLay's attorney Dick DeGuerin were uncomfortable with..."
Aug. 16, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Reefer Roundup: 5/17/11
Your drug war news
"...we? Like this bit from Forbes: Kentucky Tea Bagger GOP gubernatorial candidate Phil Moffett has been taking heat from..."
May 17, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith
Point Austin: Making Women Suffer
The self-appointed defenders of life and family values are neither
"...statement." At the Lege, the spectacle of perennial House GOP backbencher (champion calf-roper and scourge of feral hogs) Sid..."
April 22, 2011 News Column by Michael King
The Hightower Report
"...with a public approval rating lower than Congress! The GOP majority is wailing that these poor millionaires are victims..."
April 8, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower
Point Austin: We Have Just Begun To Fight
The budget battles are only skirmishes in the long march toward democracy
"...Malfaro called attention to the many "cracks in the GOP" reflected in recent official statements. Both the Senate and..."
March 18, 2011 News Column by Michael King
Point Austin: News Not Fit To Print
Trying to find a silver lining ... anywhere
"...busy guy – and this is what the state GOP leadership considers our most urgent public business. I can't..."
Jan. 28, 2011 News Column by Michael King
Neil Lodges HD48 Challenge
But is this really about the House?
"...Two: The GOP needs 102 seats because it has to be absolutely..."
Dec. 20, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Republicans Denied a Supermajority (Again)
Austin Rep. Donna Howard's seat may mean as much to the state as it does to her district
"...48 in western Travis County by 16 votes over GOP challenger Dan Neil. Cue the inevitable recount, demanded by..."
Dec. 10, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Howard Wins Recount
Democrat retains seat by 12 votes
"...True, it's not much, but it denies the Texas GOP a supermajority...."
Dec. 3, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Point Austin: A Hill of Beans
Tom DeLay's story is a profile in political corruption
"...one brooding reaction to the ongoing trial of former GOP congressional Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Travis County prosecutors are..."
Nov. 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King
All Workman and No Play
House District 47's Republican candidate fights battles on three fronts
"...supporters of Libertarian Kris Bailey have been targeting the GOPer as a fake conservative...."
Oct. 29, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Today in Campaign Fail
Rick Perry takes a YouTube tumble
"...Preston showed poor knowledge of copyright law when the GOP ripped off The Great Pretender by The Platters for..."
Oct. 28, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
The Hightower Report
Franken v. Roberts; and Stomping on America's Workers
"...Every single GOP senator recently locked arms to block consideration of a..."
July 16, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower
Election Day Slam
GOP House races go negative (again) before today's run-offs
"...Capitol staffer Gonzales continued his fight to become the GOP's sole Hispanic state rep. Over the weekend he went..."
April 13, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
SBOE: Without Darkness, There Can Be No Light
Centrists on path to loosen right-wingers' hold
"...On the upside, GOP voters in District 9 (central East Texas) finally got..."
March 5, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Perry and White Gear Up for a Fight
November, hair we come!
"...– Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and former Wharton County GOP Chair Debra Medina – while White faced the sheer..."
March 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Dems for Governor: Bill White, et al.
White stands out as Dems' best shot
"...White is currently their best hope to break the GOP stranglehold on statewide offices...."
Feb. 19, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
'Chronicle' Endorsements
Our recommendations for the March 2 primaries
"...Of the two Dems vying to take on GOP incumbent Jerry Patterson in November, Uribe, an attorney and..."
Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board
Money Makes Campaigns Go Round
First finance reports for the primary season in Travis County
"...With two GOP House primaries in Travis County this March, and five..."
Jan. 19, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
And Then There Were 71
Frank Corte latest longstanding Lege GOPer to step down
"...far, only realtor Denise Barnhill has filed in the GOP primary in House District 122, but Corte said he..."
Dec. 29, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Four More Seats
GOP worries about redistricting motivating anti-DNC namecalling
"...Carolina, getting all shouty during Obama's speech yesterday, the GOP's getting a reputation for manners that wouldn't make their..."
Sept. 10, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Point Austin: The Capitol Circus Decamps
Did we learn anything more than the meaning of 'chub'?
"...which dissolved immediately in the Senate as the national GOP campaign for "voter ID" took up squatters' residence, undermined..."
June 5, 2009 News Column by Michael King
Chubbing Republicans Over the Head
"...sides noted fractures between the Straus wing of the GOP caucus and supporters of former Speaker Tom Craddick. While..."
May 29, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Carole's Greatest Hits
When Strayhorn was Rylander on the LRB, she screwed Travis County
"...empowered Texas Republican majority in order to gerrymander a GOP congressional majority, it slithered into law only after quorum-busting..."
April 17, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
This McCain's Not a Pain
Meghan McCain gives logical reasons why the GOP needs to drop its gay hate.
"...raising some hell, on a mission to educate the GOP on why they should drop their hate for the..."
April 14, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty
Point Austin: Removing the Mask
Hard times reveal the way things actually work
"...to fly with the prevailing winds from the hard GOP right – they start in Carolina and flow around..."
March 20, 2009 News Column by Michael King
Point Austin: Give Perry a Brain Scan
Governors who reject federal stimulus money need their heads examined
"...on their "voter ID" bill, part of a national GOP crusade against virtually nonexistent fraudulent voting. This pointless exercise..."
March 6, 2009 News Column by Michael King
Point Austin: MUD Rising
Canyon Creek voting-rights lawsuit goes to the Supremes
"...other-people's-money suburban development being used as a pawn by GOP-partisan foundations, notably the American Enterprise Institute and its Project..."
