GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Candidates for 2008

This is as we know it....we will update you. We have a good slate of candidates to work for. So get ready.

Candidates

U.S. Senate
Richard J. (Rick) Noriega
Ray McMurrey
Rhett R. Smith
Gene Kelly

President
John Edwards
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson
Joe Biden
Chris Dodd

Texas Supreme Court Place 7
Sam Houston
Baltasar D. Cruz

Texas Supreme Court Place 8
Susan Criss
Linda Reyna Yanez

Texas Supreme Court-Chief Justice
Jim Jordan

Railroad Commissioner
Mark Thompson
Art Hall
Dale Henry

Texas House District #17 (north Brazos County)
Donnie Dippel
Latreese Cooke

Court of Criminal Appeals
Susan Strawn, place 3
J. R. Molina, place 4

Brazos County District Attorney
Bill Turner





2008 candidate lists

A list of candidates for the March 4 primaries can be found at the Web sites for the state political parties:

Republicans: http://www.texasgop.org/site/PageServer?pagename=candidate_filing

Democrats: http://www.txdemocrats.org

Libertarians: http://lptexas.org/candidates.shtml





Kick Off for Ray McMurrey

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Candidate for U.S. Senate
Ray McMurrey
Kick Off in Brazos County
Lincoln Center, College Station
5:30-7:30 p.m.





Don McLeroy and Maggie Charlton on KEOS!

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
KEOS
6-7:00 p.m.
Science in the Classroom-or something like that
Don McLeroy and Maggie Charleton
Come be part of the audience or listen at 89.1 FM





“How To Win in 2008”

Democratic Campaign Seminar
Saturday, January 5, 2008
9:00-3:00 p.m.
Register online at www.democratswin.com

URGENT!! If you are interested in being a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in August, 2008 you must be trained. This is new. For more information please call Kay Sweat, Senate District 5 Committeewoman at 979-540-8293 (you must dial the 979) NOW!!!!





From the Verified Voting Foundation

http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6529
Texas: Voting System Allows "Corrections"
by Warren Stewart, Senior Project Director, Verified Voting Foundation
November 20th, 2007

A Houston Chronicle article last week described how, following the November 6 election, Harris County election administrator Johnnie German “used high-security codes to tap into the Harris County elections computer system last week and change some of the results manually.” It seems that the Hart Intercivic voting system used in Harris County allows anyone with access and a passcode to modify vote totals from an election without leaving any record of the modification.

But it gets worse. According to Dan Wallach of Rice University's Computer Security Lab, who served on the task force that recently studied the Hart system as part of the California Secretary of State’s electronic voting system review , the "encryption key" code can be extracted from voting equipment at any precinct.

The necessity for modifying the vote totals in Harris County was the result of confusion during early voting caused by split precincts resulted in 293 voters in Emergency Services District No. 9 being given the wrong ballot and therefore being unable to express an opinion





Presidential Primaries

The wave of presidential primaries kicks off tomorrow with the Iowa Caucuses. Which, if you're wondering, win the award over this holiday season for highest proportion of news stories on the subject to actual news available about it. I'll tell you one thing: I don't know if Iowa will be more or less important this year because of all the stories covering whether Iowa should be this important, but I love politics, and even I'm getting a little sick of never-ending coverage on minor variations of the same information.

The current big thing buzz-wise is the Des Moines Register's most recent poll, which showed a 32/25/24 split among Obama, Clinton, and Edwards, respectively. However, the poll showed that 40% of test-takers are independents — which strongly favored Obama. Does this mean that the state is going to have a much higher independent turnout than the typical 20%, or that the independent vote in the poll is heavily overrepresented? We'll know in just a bit over 24 hours.

Additionally, Nader's supporting Edwards, Kucinich is supporting Obama and asked his supporters to pick him as the second-choice candidate, McCain's showing signs of being back in the race so Romney is attacking both him and Huckabee, and Thompson has actually been busting his tail in Iowa — not that it's likely to do much this late, but you never know.

If you need a refresher on what's been going on in the past few weeks so you can look good in front of your friends at your caucus-watching party tomorrow, head on over to the Des Moines Register and check out their caucus coverage.





Brazos County Democratic Party
P.O. Box 4568
Bryan Texas 77805
979-779-5600 Fax 979-779-5601

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman, Democrat, President of the United States of America