- Map: How Democratic Turnout Tumbled Across Texas
- Davis Campaign Marked by Failed Tactics, Muddled Messages – the messages were clear and don’t appeal to majority of Texas voters. Until Dems stop trying to sell ice cubes to Eskimos, defeat will be the result. Maybe this is an example of why so many on the Left don’t like or understand business and the free market – they can’t understand that all is voluntary and thus one must appeal to what other people want, not tell them what they want and coerce them into buying it.
- Democrat War On Women Ends With A Whimper
- Wendy Davis Lost, But Here’s Why She Really Won – beyond insanity
- Texas Democrats left to explain what went wrong
- Davis is Latest to Fail With “Austin Insider” Attack
- Analysis: Texas Democrats are running on empty
- Battleground Texas Got Curb-Stomped | RedState
- Pratt: Do Texas Democrats have a political party?
- Republicans make inroads with Latino voters in midterm elections VIDEO
- Abbott fails to make gains he hoped for in heavily Hispanic RGV – I’m not sure the data presented backs up the claim
- Abbott Announces Transition Plans; Border Security a Top Priority
- Editorial: Abbott’s mandate tempered by challenges– silly and typical lefty editorial
- Obama congratulates Texas’ Abbott in phone call
- Texas Gov.-elect Abbott’s toughness a calling card
- Patrick puts transition team in place
- Should City Voters Pick the Ag Commissioner? – the ever-present predictable stories about how the voters shouldn’t elect this or that official. No surprise Democrat Charlie Stenholm is “concerned”.
- Lubbock native, Phil Johnson, grateful for public’s support in Texas Supreme Court re-election bid
- SD7: Wasting no time, Senator-elect Bettencourt announces new staff
- HD83: After landslide, Dustin Burrows ready to start working, take advice from colleagues
- HD94 race demonstrative of media/pundit manipulation
- SREC Member/Prospective Lege Candidate Becky Berger Agrees to Pay $100,000 to Settle Claims of Financial Wrongdoing
- Hinojosa, Hurd to be most vulnerable Texans in U.S. House next year
- Midterm Elections: Results Cheer Governors Eyeing 2016 Runs
- George H.W. Bush to receive award from European Parliament
- ———-Texas government / issues————
- Longtime Texas House Journal Clerk Julia Bass passed away
- Advocates ready to renew call for new sources of revenue for Texas transportation needs
- State lawmaker gauging public opinion on divisive Trinity toll road
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes first court appearance on criminal charges
- Indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry in court for heated pretrial hearing
- Perry to Make First Courtroom Appearance
- Gov. Rick Perry in court: ‘I would do it again’
- Judge to rule next week on whether special prosecutor was properly sworn in for Perry felony case
- Texas Officials Approve Water Funding Rules
- Craddick: Railroad Commission will continue permitting in Denton, not ruling out action against ban
- Texas Reaches Ebola Monitoring Endpoint
- Atheists sink voluntary anti-bullying, anti-drugs education program in Texas schools
- Texas cites Puerto Rico homosexual marriage ruling in own fight to uphold ban
- Homosexual advocates claim marriage laws costing Texas business – hmm, Texas has lead the nation in job creation for twenty years with the last few being a massive.
- Judge signs orders to return banished sex offenders to Texas
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Sen. Cruz: Don’t Enable Obama’s Executive Amnesty in Lame Duck
- Ted Cruz: ‘Under no circumstances’ will I run for majority leader
- Boehner/McConnell: Now We Can Get Congress Going
- Obama Wrote Secret Letter to Iran’s Khamenei About Fighting Islamic State
- Expecting Executive Amnesty, Conservatives Call For Short-Term CR
- Boehner: Obama ‘Playing with Matches’ on Amnesty, and ‘He’s Going to Burn Himself’
- Cong. McCaul: “The American people expect us to get the country moving again.”
- Hensarling backs Boehner for Speaker
- Rep. Smith disappointed by Obama’s executive order “threats”
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Mills: U.S. Shale Oil Production: The New Oil Order
- Economist predicts Dallas-Fort Worth economies will grow faster than U.S. through 2019
- Investors plan big for newly purchased Dallas Design District properties
- Argentine oil field safety firm relocating to Wichita Falls
- Not cold enough – High Plains farmers still awaiting freeze, assessing rainfall’s effects
- Rolling Plains cotton harvest stalled by recent rain
- APFA tells American Airlines and US Airways flight attendants: This is as good as it gets
- It’s ‘Game On’, as Cinemark looks to boost non-movie revenue
- Average retail gas prices drop to $2.75 in Texas
- BAE laying off 190 in Fort Worth after South Korea cancels F-16 contract
- GE Oil & Gas announces plan to invest $60 million to upgrade Lufkin foundry
- GE unveils Lufkin Industries foundry expansion plans
- —————Statewide general——————
- Brown County Elections Administrator arrested for DWI
- Dallas ISD bus crash: At least 3 injured, 6 hurt
- Body Found at Imprisoned Terlingua Woman’s Home
- Midland Man Arrested After Meeting With Underage Boy to Have Oral Sex
- 2 women, 66 and 88, dead in Odessa home during report of gas leak
- McLennan Co: Online Solicitation Sting Results In 20 Arrests
- Texan gets maximum sentence in Alabama dog fighting case
- Smith County Courthouse evacuated Wednesday
- Rash of bomb threats targeting schools plagued East Texas on Wednesday
- Lindale’s Miranda Lambert makes history at 2014 CMAs VIDEO
- In Drilling Towns, More Traffic Means More Deaths – then let’s stop and starve. Just another example of how the Left sees almost everything in negative terms.
- Former Houston playboy files motion for new trial on DUI manslaughter charge
- Killer claims homosexual panic after beating boyfriend to death
- Nordheim inherits the waste, and few of the profits, from the South Texas oil boom.
- 9 Injured After SUV Crashes Into Houston Restaurant
- Texas medical professionals found guilty of fraud
- Ex-Longhorn, major leaguer Brad Halsey, 33, dies in fall
- Officials: Missing child from Maryland found in Kyle
- Meats from 18-wheeler that crashed given to local charities
- Jail Locked Down as Inmate Claims to Have Ebola in Corpus Christi
- Stranger tries to break down door with homeowner inside
- Recent rash of Dallas break-ins concerns homeowners
- Crews respond to pipeline fire in Smith County
- Pipeline fire no longer threat in Flint/Gresham area
- Pecos County Investigating Death of Oil Field Worker
Political and other Texas news for 11/6/2014
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