Statements about Elections
Says there is an upcoming vote to preserve benefits of Texas homestead exemption for seniors and the disabled.
Says his Texas election fraud investigations have resulted in 50 convictions.
Says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.
"In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party."
On resigning from the Texas Railroad Commission.
"Eric Holder is supportive of the NAACP's efforts to get the United Nations involved in our elections."
Says up to a quarter of African Americans don’t have government photo ID.
Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American.
Proposition 2 on November’s Texas ballot "does not cost state taxpayers any money."
Says Rick Perry co-chaired Al Gore’s campaign for president.
"Every month, another 50,000 U.S.-born Hispanics turn 18 and become eligible to vote."
"Governor (Perry), you were a Democrat, having worked for Al Gore as his campaign manager..."
Says U.S. House opponent Michael Williams does not live in and has never voted in the congressional district he’s seeking to represent.
Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas "gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991."
Says the Austin City Council "may give $4 million a year to subsidize a race track."
Says Rick Perry is "the guy that tracked" down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003.
Says that several times in the last 15 years, Austin City Council candidates have won seats after trailing by more than 4,000 votes in the election prompting the runoff.
"The turnout on May 14th was just 7 percent -- the lowest turnout in decades."
Says it probably costs more than $300,000 to run for a seat on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative board of directors.
Says the Hawaii governor "can’t find anything that says (President Barack Obama) was born in Hawaii."
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