As Hamous noted in this post, quite a few LST members participated in their precinct conventions after the elections last night and many of those are heading on to the district conventions as delegates. Great work, this is where change starts.

Some politicians realize the value of precinct conventions and some are ignorant to that. As anyone who heard the commercials for Allen Fletcher, Sen. Dan Patrick understands this and used a network of precinct chairmen to oust an incumbent House member. Another man that understands their value is my state senator, Mike Jackson.

Sen. Jackson was at our precinct convention last night and was an active participant in the resolution process. It’s great to have a senator that understands how hard people work and tries to limit government intrusion into our lives. He voted against the obnoxious business tax and often receives praise from free market and conservative groups. His criticism often comes from the likes of liberal blogger Vince Leibowitz at Capitol Annex for “only sending out five press releases in the last year”.

From personal experience, I know that if you approach Sen. Jackson with a real problem in a cordial manner, he will listen to you and either tell you yes, I’ll help, or no, not this time. Nothing wishy-washy about him, just straight up truth. And by the same token, whenever I’ve yelled at him, he’s yelled right back. Wish there were more of those guys around.

Sen. Jackson is going to be going up against a well funded Democrat lawyer in November and is going to need the help of all conservatives in Senate district 11. Let’s say no to hype and yes to solid conservatism.

Jeez, this is almost too humiliating for even me to enjoy [especially painful blows to the gut highlighted in bold by LST]:

Everybody who is anybody in television news — with one glaring omission — showed up for last week’s twentieth-anniversary blowout for 48 Hours, which, after 60 Minutes, is CBS News’ most durable magazine program. On hand for the party in the twentieth-floor lounge at 230 Fifth Avenue were CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, CBS News president Sean McManus, 48 Hours executive producer Susan Zirinsky, former CBS president Sir Howard Stringer, and former news president Andrew Heyward.

Missing was Dan Rather.

The original anchor of 48 Hours — who, along with Stringer, got the show off the ground in 1986 with a highly rated pilot, “48 Hours on Crack Street,” and pushed the network suits to put it on the weekly schedule — wasn’t invited. In an awkward phone call before the celebration, Zirinsky explained to Rather that he couldn’t come under the circumstances.

The 76-year-old Rather, who had read about the party on the Internet, is, of course, suing the network for $70 million, alleging wrongful termination and a host of other abuses. He left CBS in 2006 after being forced out of his 24-year anchor job at CBS Evening News (along with fourteen years anchoring 48 Hours) amid a scandal involving allegedly forged documents used in Rather’s notorious pre-election 2004 60 Minutes report on President Bush’s National Guard service.

Almost.

Talk about speaking softly and with a small stick. Dem voters underwhelmingly voted to send The Chosen One up against conservative Republican Sen. John Cornyn in November. He received 50.97% of the vote statewide against three “challengers” that raised enough money combined to fill one of the fuel tanks on my truck.

Wow. What a showing by The Chosen One. Oh, heck, I almost forgot, I was asked by someone close to his campaign to refer to him as LTC. TCO. That’s Lieutenant Colonel The Chosen One for those of you in Pasadena.

I mean, come on! Hand picked by both the party establishment and the most popular liberal blogs, the guy barely avoids a run-off against a school teacher that has never run for office, a perennial loser that has a name like an actor and a guy that ran for both the Dem Senate nomination and the Rep President nomination. Like I said, what a showing!

And to top it of, the guy ran on strength of character and conviction based upon his very good armed services record. Then, this man of strength of character and conviction attends his Dem caucus meeting but refuses to side with either Obama or Clinton, instead holding out to see who the highest bidder will be!

Texas voters will have a clear choice in November in the race for U.S. Senate. LTC TCO or conservative Sen. John Cornyn. It doesn’t get much clearer than that.

As a public service to our readers, LoneStarTimes.com would like to share the following photographs, to better help our readers in TX CD 22 identify the candidates they have to choose from in the GOP run-off election on April 8th.

Here’s Rice University grad and former Naval aviator Pete Olson:

Here’s dermatologist and former Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs:

LST has thus far been unable to secure an endorsement of Sekula-Gibbs from the Pelican, but will be happy to publish any that is provided by the campaign.

Good luck to both candidates!

Subtle:

In Monday’s episode, titled “Aftertaste”, the medium (“Allison DuBois,” played by Patricia Arquette) suspects an ex-POW Arizona state senator is involved in a murder she sees in her dreams. Through a series of psychic flashbacks, she discovers that the senator (“Jed Garrity,” played by Gregory Itzin), as a young Army captain held by the North Vietnamese, proposed to his cellmates that they kill and eat a dying American soldier rather than starve to death. “Garrity” drew the short straw and committed the actual murder himself by strangling the dying soldier.

Next up, corporate executive “Rick Caney” will ascend to the vice-presidency on a steady diet of puppy smoothies.

The Honorable Dr. Ron Paul crushed his opponent in the race to represent the people of Congressional District 14.

	Total Votes	Percentage
Ron Paul	37,220	70.18%
Chris Peden	15,813	29.81%

Folks, that margin of victory isn’t just about name recognition. Obviously, the voters of CD-14 like the way Ron Paul is representing them.

Something Must Be Done! 

Tiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee.

Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of “self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width,” after picking up 15 of the bags on a recent Sunday afternoon stroll through a West Side park.

Health Committee Chairman Ed Smith (28th) said the ban is part of a desperate effort to stop what he called “the most destructive force” in Chicago neighborhoods.

“We need to use every measure that we possibly can to stop it because it is destroying our kids,” he said.

Yeah, I’m sure that’ll work.

Next up, Chicago will stop the DWI problem by banning glassware, the kidnapping problem by banning car trunks, and the bank-robbery problem by banning big canvas sacks with dollar signs on them.

Perusing the threads, here is a list of LSTers continuing on in our political process:

American Woman
tedtam
Southerntragedy
Nat Pierce
Cajun Maverick
raiderdav
Saoder (and wife)
Meglet
Shinerblonde
luv2hammer
duhmoose
jhopkins
Ghost Rider
Rorschach
Butch
Jaime
Bigjolly
JohnBernardBooks
Hamous

Feel free to add your name to the list. If you submitted resolutions that passed please post them here. Congratulations and thank you for getting involved. I’ll see you at the convention!

Final Vote Tally:

	Total Votes	Percentage
Kelly Siegler	58,141	41.32%
Pat Lykos	43,928	31.22%

This one should be an easy call. Name recognition and long time political hack versus someone that knows what the heck they are doing. Prediction: tossup.

Final Vote Tally:

	Total Votes	Percentage
Allen Fletcher	9,233	52.23%
Corbin Van Arsdale	8.443	47.77%

Message sent. It should also be noted that this race had one of the highest turnouts by percentage of registered voters in the Harris County Republican primaries, almost 17%.

 

Knockout blow! 

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