Issues

Let’s start off by saying some positive things about Donald Trump.

It is a monumental loss. Antonin Scala was a brilliant conservative jurist. President Obama has the right to nominate someone, and the Senate has a right to reject that nomination if it alters the courts balance.

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis shows that genuine “swing states” are down. Forty-five of the fifty states have voted for one party or the other at least four times during the last five elections.

The Iowa caucus results are interesting as usual. For the Republicans, Ted Cruz outworked and outhustled all comers as TCR predicted months ago, winning most of the vote and he certainly punches a ticket deep into the GOP primary season.

At TCR, we have been interviewing and evaluating candidates for fourteen years. Over that time, there are a handful of candidates that basically blew us away. James Lloyd is the latest.

In a city that is almost 2-1 Democratic, Bill King, in the non-partisan Mayoral election came oh so close.

Just say “no” to career politicians like Sylvester Turner, and robotic supporters on Houston’s City Council or Mayor Annise Parker’s misguided “it’s about me” liberalism.

As we all celebrate and give thanks for living in a nation founded on individual freedom, we need to remember eternal vigilance is the price of that freedom.

The people have overwhelmingly rejected the over-reaching HERO ordinance by 61% to 39%.

It was an interesting election with Bill King and Sylvester Turner emerging in the Mayoral runoff. King was able to consolidate the “run government as a business” voters and Sylvester, the liberal Democrats.