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Please donate books for children!

If you have new or gently used children’s book, please take them to the Retired School Personnel Booth at the Earth Day gathering tomorrow at Veteran’s Park on Harvey Road. They will be distributed to children in Brazos County and to agencies that have children in waiting rooms. Every child should have at least one book to call their own.





CASEY: PERRY PLEDGE TO RUN IN 2010 PUMPS UP WHITE'S CAMP

Houston Chronicle
April 18, 2008

Some Republicans groaned at Gov. Rick Perry's announcement that he plans to seek another term in 2010, but Mayor Bill White's camp reacted with glee. White has made no effort to hide the fact that he is looking to run for governor after being term-limited out of the mayor's office next year. And Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the biggest vote-getter in Texas history, has been more than hinting that she plans to "come home" to run for the same office. She outlined to Texas Monthly last November a plan to resign the Senate in 2009 to make the race, while saying it was too early to make a formal announcement.

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HUTCHISON RESPONDS TO PERRY TOSSING HAT INTO RING

Says she is encouraged by support but says it is too early to announce

April 17, 2008
3:02 PM

Responding to Governor Rick Perry's informal re-election announcement in Grapevine today, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, "I am encouraged by the growing number of Texans asking me to return home to run for Governor to provide leadership for our state. It is too early to make an announcement about the 2010 race. Right now I remain committed to serving the people of Texas in the United States Senate and helping our Republican candidates win crucial elections this fall."

Hutchison has spent the last several months privately assuring supporters that she will run for Governor in 2010.

(c) Copyright April 17, 2008 by Harvey Kronberg, www.quorumreport.com, All rights are reserved





Probe Sought In Alabama Prosecution

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 18, 2008; A09

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee yesterday invited Karl Rove, a onetime White House adviser, to testify about his possible involvement in building a corruption case against former Alabama governor Don Siegelman (D).

Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (Mich.) and three other Democrats on the panel also wrote to the Justice Department's inspector general and the chief of the department's Office of Professional Responsibility, requesting that they open an investigation into what they claimed was a pattern of "selective, politically motivated prosecutions."

Siegelman, Alabama's governor from 1998 to 2003, was convicted by a jury two years ago but won release from prison last month while an appeals court considers his request for a new trial. He said he was targeted by highly placed Republican officials who wanted to block his reelection race against the state's incumbent Republican governor.

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said last month that prosecutors conduct investigations of public officials "without fear or favor, and utterly without regard to the political affiliation of a particular public official."

Rove attorney Robert D. Luskin previously told a television network that his client would testify if asked. Yesterday, however, Luskin said that Rove would follow normal procedure and seek guidance from the White House before agreeing to appear.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703607_pf.html





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