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Greetings from Austin, Texas....

by: Ed Tracey

Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 13:28:12 PM EST


.... where I'm spending a few days of vacation. And seeing endless attack ads on TV between Rick "Goodhair" Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Be grateful we don't have that in the Granite State (more after the jump).
Ed Tracey :: Greetings from Austin, Texas....
By the way, I'm having a great time meeting up with local liberals (will have a major gathering tonight). If you're one of those who grumble about Texas - you may know that Austin is different, a blue heart in the midst of a Red State.

 Tons of great music, 6th Street becomes a pedestrian walkway at night with blues bars, Irish music bars, roots, country and disco. That and the BBQ and chili alone are worth a visit someday.

 And the local liberals have given me quite a history about Texas politics: the good, the bad and the ugly. They were duly impressed with the NH Legislature's thumping defeat of the marriage inequality bill, I should add.

 Catch up with everyone next week.

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Antone's n/t (4.00 / 2)


for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

Kenny Wayne Shepherd performs there tonight .... (4.00 / 2)
.... but have a Drinking Liberally meet-up to go to this evening.

  Also, I finished the (relatively) new biography of Molly Ivins on the flight down. Great introduction to her family life and of Texas politics in general.

 "We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain."


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my neice's bridesmaid (4.00 / 2)
is engaged to the soundman...

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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The one place I lived (4.00 / 3)
for any time outside of NH, back in the day when the best tamales in town were at the Green and White Grocery on E. 7th, Dolph Briscoe was the Gov (the one who ordered the Chicken Ranch shut down), and when the 6th Street scene was just starting to roar with Stevie Ray, et al. Quite a town, enjoy some BBQ for me, Ed!

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.


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