Doing My Part For The Left

It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s Weekly Blog Round-Up. This is your pre-Thanksgiving edition, so enjoy it while you bake your pumpkin pies, stuff your turkey, or whatever your holiday traditions are.
jobsanger notes that some racists seem to think this election gives them permission to [...]

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In Orlando, Florida yesterday, Hillary Clinton announced the new theme for the Obama Campaign and the Democratic Party while campaigning with Barack Obama. This is our year to speak out against the corruption and cronyism of the past 8 years under the Shrub Regime and elect Democrats from the White House to the Courthouse. [...]

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It’s Labor Day and it’s time for another weekly roundup of the Texas Progressive Alliance. Click on for the week’s highlights.
Is John McCain’s vice presidential pick some kind of joke? McBlogger’s Mayor McSleaze thinks it’s more like a situation comedy.
CouldBeTrue is happy for Webb County! Finally, the long sheriff’s primary is over and Martin [...]

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Texas Deferred Adjudication seems like a great systemn especially if you have received a traffic ticket or been caught for some minor infraction of the law such as public nudity or playing around with an adult in public. What is stunning is that the Texas Deferred Adjudication is also available to a repeat sex offender [...]

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This is taken from Burnt Orange Report and was written by Matt Glazer.

Dean Rindy had this to say (bold added for emphasis):
The Senate race in Texas has been bland and quiet lately, so we decided to have some fun and launch our own ad. We want to puncture the myth of conservative machismo. For [...]

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I had the pleasure of introducing the readers to Annette Taddeo a few weeks back.  Now we have a chance to vote for Annette and help her become the next Progressive Patriot.  Here is the email I received from Sen. Russ Feingold and the Progressive Patriots Fund.

Cast Your Vote Today!
The Progressive Patriots Fund is hard [...]

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With a little help from his teammates, Michael Phelps set a new record in Olympic History. He is the only athlete to win 8 medals in a single Olympic game in the history of the modern Olympics.
The race was such an exciting culmination of an exciting week. Congratulations to Michael Phelps and his [...]

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We all get many emails from friends and family we are suppose to forward receive goof luck or money and most of them are pure bunk and a complete waste of time and energy. Today I received an email from a friend with a story inclosed that was so sweet I wanted to share [...]

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Michael Phelps tied Mark Spitz record of 7 gold medals in one Olympics. This is the first race in Beijing that Michael did not set a world record but I believe winning the gold was better than setting another record.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

Phelps Ties Spitz Record With 7th Gold

Michael Phelps has caught Mark Spitz, 36 years [...]

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and does nothing but pocket the money it seems. While the Republican Party of Texas has had a field day with the tails of Rep. Vo’s(D) problems with the apartments he owns they have not mentioned the fact that Sen. Corona has taken thousands from condo owners while do no maintenance on the properties [...]

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