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June 2009
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Recently in Miscellaneous CategoryI am back from the faraway land known as KVUE News Nighbeat (aka the night shift), where I was subbing last week. The nightbeat is a foreign place to me. So foreign that the most political story I covered all week was Austin's demonstration against the disputed election results in Iran. (Other hits from the nightbeat stint included man-who-might-have-tried-to-drown-wife in Colorado River and the Hazmat-scare-that-wasn't.) This was Austin, so the most oppressive thing was the heat... which reached the triple digits. About five hundred demonstrators showed up with "Where's My Vote" and other green signs, some... Governor Rick Perry says he'll be back in the office after breaking his collarbone in a mountain biking accident last night. We know this because he broadcasted the message from his computer using social-networking program, Twitter.
I have nothing but post-session depression to blame for my lack of posts. It's a phenomenon that I battle, sometimes after particularly interesting election cycles as well. Someone joked it was like being released from your captors after having developed Stockholm Syndrome. A couple of news items for ya, if you haven't already seen them elsewhere. **State Rep. Wayne Christian, who was publicly sandbagged by Land Commissioner Jerry Patte...
Speaker Joe Straus' press office just released a morning update on state Rep. Ed Kuempel, who was found unconscious late last night and transported to Brackenridge Hospital. The Quorum Report is reporting he had a heart attack. The Speaker's office says Kuempel is in intensive care, in stable condition. "The next 24-48 hours are critical," writes Straus spokesman Angela Hale, in a release. "His family has asked that colleagues and friends not visit the hospital at this time, but asks everyone keep Edmund in their prayers." ...Lawmakers adjourned a 12-hour floor session abruptly on Tuesday night, after state Rep. Ed Kuempel, R-Seguin, was found unconscious in one of the main capitol elevators. A capitol sergeant-at-arms found him with a faint pulse, according to The El Paso Times' Brandi Grissom.
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