The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is interesting and shows that Texas Republicans could lose the U.S. Senate race. Democrat liberal Colin Allred is polling neck and neck with Ted Cruz. I give a full rundown of the detail of the poll done by Public Policy Polling.
All the free media publicity around man-child Beto Pancho O’Rourke had Republicans working but this time around we don’t see the same work ethic yet Allred is polling better than did Beto.
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Texas manufacturing down; service sector okay but relative flat, and; retail continues its contraction.
The longshoreman strike shows what is, and has always been, wrong with the labor union movement: Unions have always been as greedy as they and their allies have painted business owners or “capital” to be. Press reports say that ILA [union] members currently have a base salary of $81,000, but large amounts of overtime can allow some to reach $200,000 for manual labor jobs.
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