Texas Democrat Allan Ritter told associates he is switching parties next week. The move will give Republicans a super-majority in the Texas chamber.
Texas Tribune reported, via Free Republic:
State Rep. Allan Ritter, D-Nederland, is telling associates he will switch to the Republican Party next week. Ritter was not immediately available for comment.
That would give the GOP a 100-member supermajority in the Legislature’s lower chamber — a number that allows them to pass constitutional amendments and other matters without seeking support from the Democrats.
A Ritter switch would also give Speaker Joe Straus another vote in the House Republican Caucus, which could turn out to be the forum where the next speaker is chosen. Straus foes within the GOP say they want a leader who can get the post without depending, as Straus did two years ago, on support from the minority party. Straus says he has the majority of the Republicans on his side; a vote inside the caucus would prove it.
Ritter, who would have been a candidate two years ago had the Democrats had a majority, is now with Straus.
The East Texan is in a conservative district; in fact, after the Republican sweep in the latest election, his is the most conservative seat in the House represented by a Democrat. He was one of the survivors in the elections last month, a result that might have been different if the Republicans had found a candidate to run against him.
After deliberating through the afternoon Monday, the Travis County jury considering whether to convict former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay appeared to be questioning the money laundering charges against him and went home for the night without a verdict.
In a series of notes to state District Judge Pat Priest , jurors asked whether money laundering could involve transactions that started out legally.
By Kim Dixon and Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON | Thu Nov 18, 2010 7:27pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats said on Thursday they would vote to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the lower and middle classes only, setting up a clash with Republicans only two weeks after midterm elections.
The moves end days of hand-wringing by Democrats to find a common strategy before a December 31 deadline for expiration of tax cuts for nearly all Americans and a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives next year.
A clash over taxes augurs badly for any chance that the two parties will work together after this month’s elections on major issues like cutting the budget deficit and creating jobs.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said he believes he has President Barack Obama’s support in pursuing tax cuts for everyone except the wealthy, after some concern that Obama had been ready to deal with Republicans over cuts for the rich.
“The main thing we’ve learned is that we’re united in recognizing that we have to protect the middle class,” Reid told reporters.
Party strategists funnel donations from nonprofits into attack ads, records show
While President Obama and other Democrats have excoriated Republican “front groups” for using secret money to pay for attack ads, the party’s political committees have begun doing something similar: collecting cash from outside nonprofit groups that don’t disclose their contributors and using the money to pay for negative campaign commercials, campaign records show.
One group, Patriot Majority PAC — a Democratic political committee that has run a hard-hitting $1.7 million attack ad campaign against Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for Harry Reid’s Senate seat in Nevada — has gotten one of its largest donations, $250,000, from a left-leaning nonprofit that doesn’t release the names of any of its contributors, the records show.
Another newly formed political committee, America’s Families First Action Fund, which is running negative commercials against Republicans in House races across the country, recently got $1 million from a closely related nonprofit affiliate, the records show. Both organizations were set up over the summer by Democratic strategists, who emphasized in a memo to donors that contributions to the nonprofit could be kept anonymous.
While Harry Reid’s popularity is plumetting in Nevada, his Son Rory Reid appears to be fighting to maintain his hold on the Governor’s office.
NEVADA—In addition to becoming competitive in his bid for reelection in Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now nearly tied with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when it comes to unpopularity among voters nationwide.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters across the country finds that 56% have at least a somewhat unfavorable opinion of Reid, while 59% feel the same way about Pelosi. Continue reading “All in the family” »
Former United States Senator Ted Stevens was killed in a plane crash in southwestern Alaska on Monday night. Five of the nine people on board the small plane headed to a remote fishing lodge were killed in the crash, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said.
Apparently, Jim Deakin, Republican candidate for Senator, is apparently on the receiving end of mudslinging by the other candidates. I have not seen these attacks, but he issued this email statement about them. Continue reading “Jim Deakin not loosing his home” »
49% in Minnesota Favor Investigation of Alleged Illegal Voting by Felons
Nearly half (49%) of Minnesota voters believe state election officials should investigate allegations that felons voted illegally in the 2008 election.
To get this video I had to walk the three miles from my home to this location. That was okay because I needed the exercise. I had problems with my camera equipment (sorry for the audio). On the way home under a quarter moon, I turned for a split second and tumbled down into a culvert injuring, mostly, my pride. My old computer then had problems resolving the video and it keeps stalling and giving me problems.
Finally, just as I was about to complete the project, my power supply died. It took me all day to finally get my new dual-core online and make the video. I eventually got this final copy made.
After all of that, my first upload attempt failed. The second took hours to upload and, hopefully, it will now work. I know it is not the Ten Commandments, but after all of that I don’t want to hear it!
If you have trouble viewing, try right-clicking on the video and selecting ZOOM–>Full Screen from the menu.
The notion that governments derive their only just authority from the consent of the governed is a foundational principle of the American experiment.
However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.
Beat out by Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and (Waaa) Glenn Beck.
According to the conservative magazine Town Hall, Glenn Beck leads the list of the 100 Americans the Left Hates Most. His popularity—or rather, unpopularity—with the left is apparently because of his shift from CNN to the Fox Network where his ratings exploded.
Sarah Palin beat out Rush Limbaugh and George “Dubua” as the #2 most hated personality the Republicans have to offer.
The Tea Party Patriot, or terrorist according to Bloomberg, “…has presented a significant roadblock for the president’s progressive agenda,” according to the report. Continue reading “Teabaggers rank #7” »
Arizona’s U.S. Senate candidate, conservative J.D. Hayworth, collected about 180 signatures each and every day during the petition drive to place his name on the Republican Primary ballot, compared to about 45 signatures collected each day by Sen. John McCain.
The significance is staggering, given that McCain had an eight month head start in his signature collection campaign, beginning with his initial signature on June 1, 2009. Former Congressman Hayworth’s first petition signature — gathered at a Republican meeting in McCain’s home district — bears the date of February 8, 2010.
In less than four months, Hayworth collected two-and-a-half times the number of signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. It took a year for McCain to garner roughly the same number of signatures.
And each month during the collection period, Hayworth obtained 3,535 signatures compared to McCain’s 1,011.
One of the consequences of Communism, euphemistically called Socialism, is that we have public schools producing those whose profession is to dip into the public til. In public schools people are taught to be stupid and the government is to take care of them from cradle to grave. The message is clear. Don’t work. Vote “Democrat” to secure our “democratic form of government.” Except, the Constitution does not guarantee a “democratic” government.
That is so ingrained in the psyche that anyone can send an email or make a phone call to convince someone to send them $575.99 via Western Union to cover the cost of delivering your “prize.”
I would like to point out, at this time, that this is NOT an anti-Western Union article. They are just the messengers.
Take, for example, the one I received on May 20 and 8:03 pm. Someone claiming to be Peter Washington, with an accent, from Winners International called to congratulate me. Barrack Obama and General Hussein teamed up to send me $5.5 million dollars and a new 2010 Range Rover. I picked an orange Range Rover because that is my friend’s favorite color. He wanted to know how far I was from Phoenix and I responded that I was as far away as possible. Actually, I didn’t think of that at the time. I wish I would have. Peter claimed that this company was out of Las Vegas, Nevada. I was real suspicious, then, because—as we know—what money is …in Vegas stays in Vegas. The phone number that he gave was 1-876-281-0810. A 2005 article reads, “I won 5 million dollars, but to claim my prize I must first send $150.00 to a lawyer named Adrian Rhoden, Jamaica West Indies.” I guess inflation has hit even the scam business because I was required to wire $575.99. Continue reading “Barrack Obama is going to send me $5.5 million. Really.” »
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