Posted on 05/28/2014 5:19:36 AM PDT by cotton1706
The 2014 Republican primaries have been good for incumbents and the GOP establishment over Tea Party candidates. Texas is having none of that. In Tuesday's GOP primary runoff elections, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst lost his bid for re-election to state Sen. Dan Patrick, a former talk radio host backed by Tea Party groups. This is Dewhurst's second big loss to the Tea Party — he was upset by Ted Cruz in the 2012 GOP primary for U.S. Senate. Patrick will face state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte (D) for the unusually powerful Texas lieutenant governorship.
The Tea Party also won in the race for state attorney general, with state Sen. Ken Paxton beating state Rep. Dan Branch for the GOP nod. And former U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe, backed by the conservative Club for Growth and Senate Conservatives Fund, unseated 91-year-old Rep. Ralph Hall (R).
The state's Democratic establishment fared somewhat better. In the uphill race to defeat Sen. John Cornyn (R), Democrats nominated Dallas dentist David Alameel over Lyndon LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers, who has called for President Obama's impeachment and campaigned with photos of Obama sporting a Hitler mustache. - - Peter Weber
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but is it always hot and dry down there?”
Actually no. We have had 7 inches of rain just this last week and probably more on the way. But it is always raining somewhere in Texas - hits in a torrent but sun comes out brightly shortly thereafter. Last winter was way too cool by my standard of it should never be colder than my age and it was rare to have to turn on the A/C, even during the middle of the day.
Yankee transplants are welcome providing they have left their liberal views behind, learn to quit talking with a funny accent and understand that we are the way we are just because that’s the way it is.
I spent one summer at NTSU and the humidity was horrid.”
But we save a whole lot of money on moisturizer and lotion. I live about halfway between Houston and Galveston. Thus far this year we’ve only had one day over 90 and way tooooo many under 70 to suit me, and humidity has been almost non-existent.
In the summer, it's hot. But, it's not necessarily dry.
West Texas has an arid climate. But, south and south central Texas are humid, thanks to weather patterns that bring in moisture from the Gulf.
East and northeast Texas are heavily wooded.
We are still married, happily I might add, and have been for 36 years. Actually he had left TX two years before we met and he made the promise before we wed. It wasn’t something I pulled on him after he said “I do.”
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