Vice President Joe Biden is in Austin this morning to tour the National Domestic Violence Hotline headquarters before proceeding to a fund-raising lunch. Austin Mayor Will Wynn will join him.
Biden wrote the 1994 National Violence Against Women Act, which created the hotline.
I'll tweet any updates during the event, which starts at 11 a.m. Blog post and photos to come in the afternoon.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's in Austin for a lunchtime fundraiser at the historic Driskill Hotel. Governor Rick Perry is set to attend, but his office says the event is closed press.
Perry is notoriously mysterious -- he doesn't do lots of political glad handing, there are only a few photos of him on the internet and he almost never speaks to the press, despite his statur...
Texas First Lady Anita Perry announced a new partnership with independent banks this morning, to drum up more money for the Governor's Mansion Restoration Fund. It's the fund made up of private donations that was started last year after the historic landmark was destroyed by an arsonist.
So far, more than $3 million has been donated or pledged to the fund, with about $1.5 in cash-on-hand. The total cost of rebuilding is still unknown, but a large sum will likely come from state appropriations.
A quick look at the Governor's Mansion Restoration Fund, so far:
I don't know how they swung it, but Austin band Spoon, which is a pretty big deal, is going to play an event for Democratic Railroad Commissioner candidate Mark Thompson.
Spoon will be joined by Gary Clark Jr. at Sixth Street venue The Parish sometime "in mid-October", according to the Thompson campaign.
"It will be a chance for Texas Democrats to enjoy some of the best new music from a Texas band that wants to do its part for Democrats and for balance on the Railroad Commission," said Cody Garrett, spokesman f...
My counterpart at the ABC affiliate in Houston, Miya Shay, scored some video of President Bush in Houston for a fundraiser this past weekend. Check it out.
An email between U.S. Senator John Cornyn's staffers and subsequently forwarded to supporters says that the Netroots Nation convention in Austin has helped bring in about $10,000 in the past two days. The subject line is "Nutroots":
"According to finance team, the fact that Dean and Pelosi came in to shill for Noreiga really fired up our supporters the last 24 hours. We have raised well over 10K and I think we could another 10k," writes Cornyn spokesman Kevin McLaughlin.
He adds, "Our guys at the convention told us Noreiga and his out-of-state buddies spent the morning attacking Senator Cornyn." >> Continue reading:"Nutroots" Helps Cornyn Raise Thousands
No more Monday fundraiser in Texas for Senator John McCain. The event, which was to be hosted be 1990 gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, got abruptly eighty-sixed after ABC News contacted the McCain campaign about a controversial Williams comment from way-back-when.
"These were obviously incredibly offensive remarks that the campaign was unaware of at the time it was scheduled," said spokesman Brian Rogers.
According to an AP story from March 1990, Williams compared rape to the bad weather. "If it's inevitable, ...
Last week two separate polls (Rasmussen and Research 2000) came out showing Democrat Rick Noriega just four points behind incumbent Republican US Senator John Cornyn. There are reasons to suspect those numbers, but the Noriega campaign proudly trumpeted both polls. Hey, a closer-than-expected race could convince on-the-fence donors to give.
But a "real race" helps Cornyn drum up the cash, too. Tonight, his finance director sent out the following message:
We don't put much validity in either poll, but Democrats certainly are. Liberal bloggers and Democrat partisans alike have pounced on the res...
Elise Hu is KVUE's Political Reporter and your dedicated blogger. There's too much politics in Texas to fit into a newscast, so the fun continues here. Email your ideas and feedback to ehu@kvue.com.
