Push Junction – Texas Headlines and Press Releases

16 Mar 2012

• Kumbaya campaign by Dewhurst and Leppert?
• Police stop half naked wrong-way driver
• 14-Year-Old gets 10 yrs fatal unprovoked punch
• Casino group close to bailing out Straus family
• DPS outsourced border security to private firm via no-bid contracts
• BattleSwarm March 15 Senate race update
• Small business owners: reform Texas' business tax
• GOP candidates call for Voting Rights Act repeal
• Cruz not happy with UN messing with Texas
• Ted Cruz speaks out against 'Agenda 21'

15 Mar 2012

• Feds trampling women’s health, Tenth Amendment
• Former councilman indicted for online solicitation of minor
• Glen Rose ISD spends tax $$$ on flat screens in stadium
• Dewhurst launching TV ad Friday
• San Marcos Council member credited with Porn performance cries foul
• SA sends $25,000 taxpayer dollars to Hollywood
• Texas still has work to do on transparency
• After leaving race Anderson endorses Hancock over Smith
• Conservatives gather in Houston plan Santorum fundraising strategy
• Sen. John Cornyn still neutral on presidential race
• Is Texas Santorum country? Polling suggests it might be
• LED lights don't save SA money as promised
• Candidate Paul spends $31.55 per vote
• Beer Shakedown: cop guilty of taking driver's beer
• Presidential poll for Texas -- Rick Santorum leads
• Robert Duncan: 'raise more revenue'
• Texas may be factor in presidential primary after all
• 19-year-old runs for Garland School Board
• Paul supporters illegally try to become delegates
• Senate candidate Cruz speaks out against 'Agenda 21'
• Texas pays out big for workers' unused vacation time
• CORNYN: White House not transparent as Obama promised
• Genital exposing Planned Parenthood CEO steps down

14 Mar 2012

• Americans Elect signature drive begins in Texas
• Texas challenging Voting Rights Act
• Media gives up on Ron Paul
• Statewide effort calling out the Feds launched by Perry
• Perry stands firm
• ...won't raise taxes to fill health program hole
• Vicki Truitt gets defensive about trip details
• 5 shot at Jefferson Co. Courthouse
• Dewhurst may skip most Senate candidate forums
• Texas vs. California
• Paul finishes fourth in Alabama, Mississippi
• Joe Barton goes (too) big for Gingrich
• Can Gingrich keep Perry's 2012 hopes alive?
• Erickson blasts Dewhurst for adviser's support of health mandate
• RedState: David DewCrist’s Health Care Problem
• Jilson: activist calls Feds to bring attention to himself
• Everyone needs a $480,000 special ops rescue truck
• SA considers subsidizing Hollywood
• Make a movie about SA, get $25K in taxpayer money
• Paul Sadler: four super PACs exist in U.S. Senate race on GOP side
• Torres compares state Senate run with Obama's 2008 bid
• Gang leader flown to Houston on murder, racketeering charges
• Democrat bounces check, drops out of race
• Meyers backs down from primary challenge
• State judicial commission shuts door on transparency
• Former lawmaker Bobby Valles dies

13 Mar 2012

• Planned Parenthood branch CEO charged with indecent exposure
• Administrators avoid school budget cuts
• Debt at county and city levels balloon
• Rasmussen has Romney over Santorum in TX
• Dewhurst speaks of a health care trip -- to Paris
• Obama DOJ Permits Election Fraud
• Houston Dems try to bypass state law
• Combs endorses Santorum
• Six former Dallas County GOP party leaders endorse Dewhurst
• White House invades Texas for Hispanic votes
• Obama collects $2.7 million in Houston
• Mexian drug lord pleads guilty in Texas court
• ...here's the guy who hatched the idea
• DYK: UT has $1,000,000,000 in physical gold
• In TX Gore says 'democracy has been hacked'
• Tommy Williams draws a challenge
• Paul wins but still manages to lose
• George P. Bush: 'no firm plans' to run in 2014
• Farenthold fields 7 opponents
• 'Homeless Hotspots' rile SXSW goers

12 Mar 2012

• Pondering Penguin: hyper partisan political operative runs DOJ
• Obama DOJ objects to TX Voter ID law
• Texas Senate races
• Pennsylvania joins states requiring ultrasound before abortion
• Experts predict a low turnout, topsy-turvy Texas primary
• Lamar Smith gets unwanted PAC attention over SOPA bill
• Republicans gain Hispanic Rep through party swap
• Star Tech players arrested for unauthorized use of a credit card
• Latitude widens for withholding records
• Charlie Gonzales wants to examine why young people say USA USA
• Paul supporters plunge Denver meeting ‘into madness’ [VIDEO]
• FOX EXCLUSIVE: Gingrich-Perry Ticket in the Works
• Pro-abortion comic rejected by Star-Telegram, other newspapers
• Educrats emerge to challenge conservatives in primary