Eight Houston police officers have been suspended with pay while being investigated for allegedly beating up a burglary suspect. Their actions were caught on a video surveillance camera. The DA’s Office, HPD, and Quanell X have copies of the video tape. The FBI now wants a copy of the tape. Once the video tape goes [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Candid Cameras
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City elections, Houston Elections, Houston Police Brutality, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Mayor Annise Parker, National Politics, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spreading the Blame
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a headline from an AP story that is in a few state newspapers today: “Poor response to census may haunt Texas.” Here’s the lead sentence of the story: “Texas is among five states — New York, California, Arizona and Florida are the others — that are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats [...]
Dude 1, Varmint 0
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Illegal Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, Texas Governor campaign, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
"When I say Whoa! I mean Whoa! You long eared, fur bearing, flat footed varmint!” That was supposedly said when Yosemite Sam, err Guv Dude shot him a coyote in self defense – allegedly – a couple of months ago while jogging up in the hill country. Commentary figures he finally let folks know yesterday [...]
The Tax Return Cometh and H-Town’s Red Light Cameras Election
Posted in Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Mayor Annise Parker, National Politics, Texas Governor campaign, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today’s political chatter in the Lone Star State is about Guv Dude and the Former H-Town Mayor weighing in on the debates. The Former Mayor wants to debate right now. Dude says he wants the Former Mayor to release his tax returns first. Last year, the Annise Parker campaign released her tax returns and called [...]
The Arizona Factor
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Politics, Houston Term Limits for Mayor and Council, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
First of all, Commentary isn’t heading to Arizona anytime soon. Commentary also won’t be buying anything that is made in Arizona. Of course, I don’t even know what they make in Arizona. It is hard to say how this is going to play in November. On the news talk shows yesterday morning there was a [...]
San Jacinto Day
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National GOP, National Politics, President Obama, Texas Politics on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary grew up down the street from the San Jacinto Battleground and Monument. The elementary schools in our ISD were named after the heroes of the Texas Revolution – Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William B. Travis, Stephen F. Austin, Mirabeau Lamar, James Bowie and Lorenzo DeZavala that only Latinos like Commentary attended. We were taught [...]
Not Gonna Hear It
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Texas GOP, Texas Governor campaign, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In yesterday’s Chron there was an Op-Ed that was penned by two local educators warning us about the fiscal crisis in public education throughout the state. In a newspaper this past weekend, there was an article about our state legislative leaders looking at those goods and services that are currently exempt from the sales tax. [...]
Off Target Cover Boy
Posted in Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Dynamo Soccer Stadium, Houston Politics, Johnson Space Center, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s what Newsweek cover boy Guv Dude said this past weekend: "It was very disconcerting for me to see the president at Kennedy Space Center (in Florida) making the announcement about they’re going to increase some jobs there. Not one word spoken about the Johnson Space Center. The message there was: ‘You’re from Texas. We [...]
