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April 12, 2008

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Around Texas

Button wins GOP primary runoff to succeed Hill

Angie Chen Button won an expensive and bruising contest over Randy Dunning in the Republican primary race to succeed retiring state Rep. Fred Hill.

Daniel defeats Hobbs in House District 52

Georgetown insurance executive Bryan Daniel bested prosecutor Dee Hobbs of Hutto on Tuesday night in the race to be the Republican nominee to replace retiring Rep. Mike Krusee.

Macias Wants Primary Run Again

Nathan Macias is challenging the results of the March 4 Republican primary in court, after the District 73 state representative narrowly lost his bid for re-election.

Olson scores victory against Sekula Gibbs
Former Navy flier and veteran Washington political aide Pete Olson claimed a surprisingly easy victory Tuesday over Shelley Sekula Gibbs in the runoff for the Republican candidacy in the 22nd Congressional District.

Runoff Races Mostly Low-dollar Contests
As in the primaries, open seat runoffs have remained low-dollar. The lobby has involved itself slightly more than in the first round while staying largely below the radar screen.

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Presidential Election

Pollster finds no GOP rush to vote Democratic

Could it be that mischievous Republicans enabled Sen. Hillary Clinton to draw more Texas votes than Sen. Barack Obama last month?

Superdelegates in Texas divided between Clinton, Obama

Hardly a day goes by without Norma Fisher Flores of El Paso opening up a letter or an e-mail -- or getting a phone call -- from someone telling her which Democratic presidential candidate should get her vote.

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National News

What I Heard at the Petraeus-Crocker Hearings
John Cornyn
America's top military commander and chief diplomat in Iraq reported Tuesday that we are making significant progress there. They added that we cannot afford to squander our gains by losing our resolve. But was anybody really listening?

Why tax cuts mustn't expire

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman observed that "Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay."

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El Dorado Situation

CPS says teen who reported polygamist ranch is probably in its care

Child welfare officials said Wednesday that they're nearly certain the teenage girl whose complaint triggered the removal of 416 children from a West Texas polygamist compound is in their care but is too afraid to identify herself.

Children should be treated like refugees, expert says

A child protection expert says the children -- and the children of those children -- who are now in state custody should be cared for in the same way as refugees from Southeast Asia who migrated to the United States after the fall of Saigon.

Robert Novak

Sen. Hillary Clinton
(D) is on the edge. Though she still can be nominated super-delegates are poised to leap to Sen. Barack Obama (D) if there are any further problems for Clinton. Her slippage in the Pennsylvania polls is most worrisome for her.