When Annise Parker was campaigning for Mayor of Houston she was quite public about the fact that as soon as she gets into office she would be replacing the police chief Harold Hurtt, who came out and endorsed her opponent Gene Locke. Parker said she felt that while Hurtt is a good professional he didn't really know Houston... She also talked about how the largest police union came out against her and worked hard to defeat her. In this interview Mayor-Elect Parker talks about mending fences and taking HPD to the next level.
We caught up w/ Houston Mayor-Elect Annise Parker on our syndicated Hard Knock Radio show . She opened up to us about a variety of issues including how and why the political landscape of Texas is changing. She talked about the role Texas' big cities are playing in the political shift from Red to Blue and how Texas' burgeoning Latino population is impacting. She talked to us about how she's been dealing with the national spotlight her victory has brought to her and the city of Houston. She talked about what it means politically that Houston elected an openly Gay mayor.
We caught up w/ Houston Mayor-Elect Annise Parker on our syndicated Hard Knock Radio show . She opened up to us about a variety of issues including how and why the political landscape of Texas is changing. She talked about the role Texas' big cities are playing in the political shift from Red to Blue and how Texas' burgeoning Latino population is impacting. She talked to us about how she's been dealing with the national spotlight her victory has brought to her and the city of Houston. She talked about what it means politically that Houston elected an openly Gay mayor.
We caught up with Houston Mayor-elect Annise Parker on our syndicated Hard Knock Radio show. She opened up to us about a variety of issues including how and why the political landscape of Texas is changing. She talked about the role Texas' big cities are playing in the political shift from Red to Blue and how Texas' burgeoning Latino population is impacted. She talked to us about how she's been dealing with the national spotlight her victory has brought to her and the city of Houston. She talked about what it means politically that Houston elected an openly gay mayor.
Links below to Interview w/ Houston Mayor-Elect Annise Parker, Parts 2, 3, & 4.
WESLACO, Dec. 28 - State Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez joined leading members of the American GI Forum in the Rio Grande Valley in Weslaco on Saturday to strategize on how best to secure a VA hospital for the region.
The Weslaco Democrat announced he would be filing legislation next session to build upon the foundation laid by Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment passed by voters in November that allows the state of Texas for the first time to assist the federal government in the building and maintaining of veterans’ hospitals.
“We are researching ways to tap into the resources available through the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Emerging Technology Fund to help build and maintain a veterans’ hospital in the Rio Grande Valley,” Martínez said. “We laid the foundations last session with Proposition 8. Now it is time to get the hospital built.”
Martínez’s comments won immediate applause from the GI Forum leaders present.
“This is the sort of leadership we have lacked in Washington, D.C., all these years,” said Placido Salazar, national executive secretary of the GI Forum and a Vietnam War veteran who was born and raised in the Valley Delta.
“We should have had a VA hospital a long time ago. We elect our members of Congress and they forget where they came from,” Salazar added. “We need young leaders like Mando in Washington. They got the tax exemption for veterans passed and Proposition 8 passed.”
Read the full story here.
We caught up with some folks at the Rally for New Leadership in Austin recently, and asked them to share why they are supporting Bill White in his run to be the next Governor of Texas.
EDINBURG, Dec. 21 - Forget Bill White, Farouk Shami, Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison. The big political issue in the Rio Grande Valley in the first few months of the New Year will be Census 2010.
We caught this footage of Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Bill White speaking at the Rally for New Leadership at Scholz Garten in Austin, TX on December 6, 2009. Mayor White spoke about Texas values, his ability to bring politically diverse groups of people together, and the critical role education will play in the future of Texas.
Dear Mr. Obama,
I hear that you were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize recently in Oslo, Norway and that, in addition to that spiffy medal, it comes with 1.4 million tax-free dollars that you are going to “donate to charity.”
I just want to let you know that there are still some of us in the US who oppose the wars, even though you are president, and its nothing personal, but I vehemently oppose your wars and especially oppose the escalation of troops to Afghanistan and the fact that there has been no de-escalation from Iraq.
We continue our conversation w/ 21 year old Diana Lopez from San Antonio's Southwest Workers Union... Here she talks to us about the challenges she and other grassroots activists from the US faced when arriving in Copenhagen. The US is seen as the biggest problem in the Climate Change debate and thus initially many from the US were received skeptically... Diana and her fellow delegates broke through those barriers.
