Political Tidbits & Natural Phenomena

Democratic goobernatorial candidate Chris Bell is demanding that Carole Keeton Cougar Rylander Strayhorn return $29,500 she received from members of the Zachry Family, which owns Zachry Construction Corp. Zachry Construction is involved in a partnership to develop the first phase of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which includes 4,000-plus miles of tollways. What bothers Bell is that this is the same project that Strayhorn has spoken out against publicly.
In other Grandma Cougar news: Kinky wants Travis County to investigate Strayhorn's use of state aides for her political speeches. Kinky's camp believes that it is inappropriate to have state staffers help with her campaign speeches while she is on duty as comptroller.
Sugar Land mayor David Wallace will run as a write-in candidate in the Nov. 7 general election in order to try to protect Mr. DeLay's congressional seat for the GOP. Mr. Wallace has already jumped into the fray by calling Democratic nominee Nick Lampson a liberal carpetbagger.
It appears that the YouTube spoof of Al Gore's global warming message was the work of a Republican PR firm and not a bored cubicle troll.
A recent Associated Press poll found the president's approval rating at 33 percent and this could spell trouble for the GOP in this fall's congressional elections.
Supporters of the defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are waging demonstrations in Mexico in protest of alleged election "errors" which they claim led to conservative Felipe Calderon's victory in the July 2 election. They demand a vote-for-vote recount instead of the partial recount previously ordered by Mexico's election tribunal.
It seems that there is a mountain in China that closely resembles a pair of breasts. We have dispatched a select team of staffers to confirm this phenomenon.

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By zachary in News on August 14, 2006 10:38 AM 0 Comments

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zach

yeah we've fallen into it as an alternative to using "vacant" seat mostly because it sounds cooler, but will be glad to avoid this in future posts.

THanks for posting the pics too.

citizen Able

A bit of nitpickery:

It is incorrect to use the possessive to refer to the seat as Delay's.

It cannot be DeLay's seat as he is no longer a congressperson.

He chose to cut and run.

July

Wow, the protest is pretty crazy and Obrador is crazy...his angle is to get the vote of the uber poor...all in all the guy is a fraud just like the rest of the other canidates and it's just choosing the lesser of two evils...other mexican industry insiders said that if obrador were voted in , this result would send the country into hyperinflation and the beginning of a downward spiral of the devaluation of the peso....i took some pictures here--

http://julioenriquez.blogspot.com/2006/08/mexico-city-i-heart-mexico-city.html