While Texas Legislators are furiously looking under every couch cushion to find more revenue this bienium, the Alliance for Clean Texas today highlighted a half dozen strategies that could help Texas close its $27 billion budget deficit. As lawmakers are loathe to talk about the dreaded “T” word (tax), groups like Public Citizen, Sierra Club, [...]
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Green Groups in Texas highlight new revenue streams
Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Consumers, Energy, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged 82nd legislature, Budget, budget deficit, green revenue, Texas Legislature on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Watch the “Story of Citizens United” video: Help rescue democracy
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged Annie Leonard, citizens united, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, democracy, The Story of Stuff on March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Corporations aren’t people and elections shouldn’t be for sale. If you agree, you’ll love “The Story of Citizens United v. FEC,” a new 8-minute animated short by Annie Leonard, of The Story of Stuff fame. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, we have overwhelming evidence of the damage done to our democracy. [...]
Lawrence Lessig to Speak on UT Campus Mon Feb 28, 6pm- we have your tickets!
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged Campaign Finance, Congress, Harvard Law School, Lawrence Lessig on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Harvard Law School, is coming to Austin to speak on the corrosive influence of Money in Politics, thanks to our good friends at the Coffee Party Austin. Seating is limited, and having a ticket will guarantee you a seat. However, if you do not get a ticket, there will be some [...]
Sunset chairman supporting Railroad Commission overhaul
Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Good Government, Sunset, tagged Texas Railroad Commission, Texas Sunset Commission on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Sunset Advisory Commission is putting the wheels in motion to overhaul the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC). And, the chairman of the Sunset Commission is telling two of RRC commissioners that their agency “badly broken.” Commissioner Michael Williams, the longest-serving member of the trio, has endorsed the overhaul. The Sunset Commission has recommended the Railroad [...]
Dumping on Texas for Fun and Profit
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Harold Simmons, Jim Hightower, Rick Perry on January 21, 2011 | 8 Comments »
SPECIAL GUEST COLUMN FROM JIM HIGHTOWER Originally posted at http://www.jimhightower.com/ Thank you, California. And you, too, Florida, Maine, Missouri, and the 32 other states that intend to send a very special gift to Texas – namely, their radioactive waste. Now there’s a gift that truly keeps on giving! Of course, Texas asked for it. Well, [...]
Harold Simmons: the political contributor who keeps on giving
Posted in Campaign Finance, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged David Porter, Harold Simmons, radioactive waste, Rick Perry, Texas Ethics Commission on January 20, 2011 | 10 Comments »
In December Texans for Public Justice reported that Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons had contributed $620,000 to Governor Rick Perry. TPJ’s publication Lobby Watch questioned how Perry’s appointees could objectively regulate Simmons’ nuclear ambitions. That question looms larger after Simmons gave Perry another $500,000 this in 2010. Having given him a total of $1,120,000, Simmons now [...]
Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged money laundering, Republican National Committee, Tom Delay on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Judge Pat Priest has sentenced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to three years in prison on the conspiracy charge he was convicted of in November. Delay was also sentenced to five years in prison on the money laundering conviction but Judge Priest allowed DeLay to accept 10 years of probation instead of more prison time. [...]
Texas may get a lump of radioactive waste in their stocking if billionaire donor to Governor Perry has his way
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County waste dump, Grinch, Harold Simmons, radioactive waste, waste control specialists, WCS on December 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
UPDATED: Thanks to everyone who commented! We’ll have a blog wrapup/ news release ASAP. VIDEO FROM OUR PRESS CONFERENCE ! And check our flikr photostream here on the blog for non moving pictures from this morning, if that’s more your thing. We now return you to your regularly scheduled snark, already in progress. ORIGINAL POST: [...]
Texas will get new 4 Congressional seats – redistricting reform needed, and Lord of the Rings references
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Redistricting, tagged Democratic, frodo, independent redistricting commission, jeff wentworth, mark strama, redistricting, republican, Texas, United States Congress on December 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Well, it’s official– and let the bloodbath begin. Texas has been growing (this we knew), but by enough to mean that we will get 4 new Congressional seats. Much of our growth has been occurring in suburbs and exurbs, and we’ve been losing relative population in rural areas, so it will be interesting to see [...]
Tom Delay GUILTY
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged money laundering, public citizen texas, republican, Tom Delay on November 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Tom Delay has been convicted of money-laundering by a Travis County jury. After three days of deliberation in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay‘s corruption trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Tom DeLay‘s defense team, presented five witnesses over two days, resting its case last Thursday. This was in stark contrast to the prosecution’s case, [...]
Delay jurors, take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Delay trial, money laundering, Pat Priest, Tom Delay on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As Public Citizen’s offices close for the Thanksgiving holiday, the jurors in the money-laundering and conspiracy trial of former U.S. House GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay had still not come back with a verdict.
Delay trial winds down with closing arguments expected on Monday
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged Dick DeGuerin, houston chronicle, Republican National Committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, Texas, Tom Delay, Travis County Texas on November 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Testimony in Tom DeLay‘s money-laundering trial ended on Thursday, without the former House majority leader testifying and neither DeLay’s chief political aide, Jim Ellis, nor John Colyandro, who ran Texans for a Republican Majority, testified because they are being tried later as co-conspirators. Closing arguments are set for Monday and with any luck we will [...]
Houston Redistricting Hearing
Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged Government, houston, redistricting, Texas Legislature, tx on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Come one, come all. The House Committee on Redistricting is taking public testimony at hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will help shape the districts for both the house and senate of the Texas legislature, Texas congressional districts, and districts for the election of judicial officers or of governing bodies or representatives of political subdivisions or [...]
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