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Archive for June 11th, 2009
Sign up for Perry’s Leadership Summit
June 11, 2009On Saturday, June 20th, volunteers from all over Texas will gather in Austin to discuss the upcoming campaign and ways to get involved. Governor Perry will take part and introduce informative presentations from members of the Texans for Rick Perry campaign staff.
During the event, you’ll learn about Organization, Social Media, Polling, Fundraising and many other areas of the Perry effort. You’ll leave the event better equipped to help Gov. Perry keep Texas rolling as the best state in the nation.
Spots are filling up quickly, so please RSVP early for this four-hour event (11:30am – 3:30pm) by filling out the form below on our website. As always, thanks for your leadership, commitment and service to the state of Texas.
Please bring a laptop if you have one. The event is without charge and is for Perry supporters only; lunch will be provided. Additional details will follow for confirmed attendees.
UT Wages War Against YCT Students
June 11, 2009More on the table leg weapon story from yesterday from my column with the Texas Insider:
“An orientation leader stretched out his arm, clutching the severed leg of a table, to create a physical barrier from the four of us and the steady stream of students. We were perceived as a physical threat because we wished to offer an alternate conservative viewpoint to the new students of our University,” explained Becker.
During my time as a campus activist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, I saw my fair share of strange behaviors on campus from the left, but the university and its staff always believed in the right to free speech, no matter what students believed. In fact the orientation leaders asserted to the YCT chapter that they were passing flyers out in vain because no student would really want to read the conservative side of things.
“The point we would like to make, and that every proponent of free speech would agree on, is that the particular message or effectiveness of the speech does not matter, it is the speech itself which is intrinsically protected under the Constitution,” said Becker.
The orientation leaders owe an apology not just to YCT, but also to the UT Austin student body, for hypocritically trampling on free speech rights. Worst of all, this was at a diversity training event.
DC Interns
June 11, 2009As a former DC Summer Intern I have a newfound appreciation of this blog, link courtesy of my fellow former DC Summer Intern, Allison.
An intern had been with the office for a few weeks, and the Legislative Director wanted to give her a substantial assignment to work on:
LD: What issues are you interested in?
Intern: [thinks for a moment] Yes.
LD: Um, no, I mean, what legislative issues do you find interesting? Do you like health care?
Intern: Yes…. I mean…. No. Because health care deals with sick people, and sick people make me sad.
