The View From The Mainland
Since I've been in China, keeping up with what's going on in the world of Texas politics has been exceedingly difficult, mainly because of time constraints (too many things to see/do, not enough time to read up on candidate filings). Also, I cannot read any blogger.com supported websites because I think the Chinese government blocked them a few years ago (pesky dissidents). So this is all I've gathered from my combined seventeen minutes on the internet this week:
- Noriega's in for real now, while a new senate candidate jumped into the fray.
- Karl Rove will be back in Austin Thursday night to speak to a GOP group. He won't have a media availability but the remarks will be open press.
- Senator John Cornyn, R-TX, and Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, introduced their retooled open government bill in the US Senate. Not sure whether it says anything about email retention policies.
- More recent polling shows Obama's built on his lead in Iowa. That state is so impossible to poll, we'll see what really happens come January 3rd.
For those of you who are bored at work, our pictures from China that have nothing to do with Texas politics are here. We'll be back on a more regular blogging schedule next week.
