The three-count felony indictment handed up by a grand jury in very-Republican Collin County against Attorney General Ken Paxton has sparked some wild conspiracy theories but yielded little, if any, consistency from some of Paxton’s fellow Tea Party patriots. Employees of Tim Dunn’s Empower Texans, a self-proclaimed conservative group, have tried to make the case […]
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One Would Think the Tea Party Would be Outraged by What the Texas AG is Said to Have Done
by Scott on August 12, 2015 in Joe Straus, Politics, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, Texas
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Tea Party Senator Calls for Unilateral Disarmament in Competition for Business
by Scott on July 17, 2015 in Dallas, Economy, Fort Worth, Politics, Rick Perry, Tea Party, Texas
Much of the chatter in the business lobby over the past few days suggests that Facebook executives were not happy at all with Tea Party Sen. Konni Burton’s argument that the state needs to “stop throwing our tax dollars to big business.” In this op-ed, the Republican from Colleyville argued that the City of Fort […]
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