You can follow the action on twitter. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our guests. Please stand briefly. From your right, dallas morning news. Maria, fort worth start telegram. David callaway, usa today, editorinchief. Adrian garcia. Kevin, washington post. The honorable rodney alexander, texas state senator. Allison fitzgerald. Skipping over the speaker for moment. Bob carden with card in communications and the Speaker Committee member who organized todays lunch. I thank you. Bobby patton. Of thes leader and owner l. A. Dodgers. The senior sector producer and manager of political programming for abc news. Marilyn thompson, bureau chief for thompson reuters. A host and reporter with voice of russia and blogger for the washington post, she the people blog. Rick dunham, a political reporter with the Houston Chronicle and former National Press club president. [applause] it seems now like the whole country was watching when our guests today literall
Then, you had another set of folks who were in an office right next to the great campaign. During the campaign, theres so much going on area you have several workers complaining, several official workers complaining about the other workers. They fuzz they were getting paid more. There was a lot of confusion about who was getting paid what. It was not until a year later that folks started adding things together with federal investigators began asking questions. Were next door, we cannot find any record of them in the Campaign Finance records that we see. How did they get paid . Was in charge of the . Mrs. Stewart looks at politics. Wendy davis gave a speech this week at the National Press club. She talked about her future political plans and Political Climate in texas. Funding education and Womens Healthcare. She filibustered an abortion bill for more than 10 hours. It eventually passed. It bans abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This about one hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Na
Its the issue of the right of the states and the right of the individual when possible through jury nullification to nullify the unconstitutional laws coming out of washington, d. C. Its a neat issue to bring liberals and conservatives together. Because conservatives get a bad wrap because i believe in states rights, yeah, that means youre a racist. Thats the way thats their mentality. But i like the last paragraph of the declaration of independence because they talk about free and independent states as if they were countries they emphasize that in the declaration. So so this is what will have to happen is it might really happen when theres chaos. In detroit and things like that. Is there a government in detroit right now . I mean, is there a police force . Oh, yeah, theres a burglar outside of my house. I think ill call the police. Its over with. So when the federal government cant respond because the money doesnt work and they cant pay the military and the troops come home, thats the
To be with such an esteemed group of people. I have to tell you people get a little bit nervous when i approached the podium these days. You obviously know what happened on june 25 in the texas legislature, but in case you were one of the few people not Live Streaming it, i thought i would repeat the entire thing for you today. Lets get comfortable. In all seriousness, i am very honored and so grateful you are interested in hearing more from me. I am constantly reminded what a privilege it is to have of voice. Though i mean the voice figuratively, my initial understanding of the power of voice was quite literal. When i was a young girl my family tried to spend as much time as we could with my grandparents. They lived in the panhandle of texas. My grandfather made his living his entire life as a tenant farmer, and when he was in his mid60s suffered a massive stroke. From that point forward, he lived the rest of his life in a nursing home. He was partially paralyzed and had a very diffic
Ever called Martha Washington martha. She was always called patsy as Lady Bird Johnson was never called claudia. So i was just wondering, you mentioned in his letters when he referred to her in his letter that it was just mentioned on the telephone that he did call her patsy. And i also wanted to mention that in the story that im reading about martha and George Washington that the house, mt. Vernon, was originally the home of his half brother, George Washingtons half brother. That he lived in a smaller farm. And i wondered if you are going to talk anything about his years as a surveyor or is this really about the years with martha as an adult . Thank versus much. This is actually Martha Washingtons time in the sun. So we wont talk about georges early career. What about the nickname patsy . Patsy, pat, patty were the nicknames for martha in those days just as peg or peggy is a nickname for margaret. The martha nickname has fallen out of favor. Nobody was named patricia back then. The on