Politicians like sheep

Texas - Texas Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn sued Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams, a Perry appointee, last Friday, claiming Williams' plan to manually examine her petition signature by signature instead of using a statistical sampling method violated her constitutional rights. Williams also refused Strayhorn's request to be allowed to turn in an initial batch of signatures and then add to that before May 11. Carole Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman have until May 11th to get 45,540 signatures from registered voters who did not participate in the primary election.
Texas - A Texas prosecutor rejected a request by watchdog groups to investigate whether Christian activist Ralph Reed, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia, violated Texas lobbying-registration laws. Travis County Attorney David Escamilla cited a two-year statute of limitations on misdemeanors. According to the watchdog groups, Reed may have violated Texas law by failing to register as a lobbyist while working to shut down Indian casinos that would have competed with one run by a client of his associate, Jack Abramoff.
Washington - The fiction: Edwin Buckham created the U.S. Family Network, a nonprofit organization, in order to promote a pro-family political agenda in Congress.
The reality: Edwin Buckham created the U.S. Family Network in order to funnel corporate funds to DeLay's advisers and finance ads attacking Democrats. The groups revenue was mostly acquired from clients of Jack Abramoff and Edwin received a third of all the money collected.
Washington - The Senate Judiciary Committee adopted an amendment that allows charitable groups to avoid prosecution when providing medical care, food, shelter and counseling to undocumented immigrants. And in the same breath the committee approved the increase of Border Patrol agents in order keep undocumented immigrants from receiving medical care, food, shelter and counseling in the U.S.