Karl Rove Shows His Genius, Again
I think Karl Rove has done it again! We were all taking comfort that there weren't any big wedge issues to mobilize the Conservative base, and now Karl has given them one: AMNESTY. And I think he has...
View ArticleEnergize America-A Candidate Acceptance
I have followed the development, on Daily Kos, of a comprehensive energy plan called Energize America--An Energy Plan for America's Future, or EA 2020, for short. I am the Democratic Candidate for TX...
View ArticleCut and Run--Bring it on!
So Karl Rove celebrated his "release" from the Plame investigation by declaring that Republicans will win the mid-term elections by telling everyone that Democrats want to "Cut and Run". I'm the...
View ArticleTed Ankrum says "We Won", and on Extremists
I'll be campaigning tomorrow in my Distrct which runs from the Houston suburbs to the Austin suburbs (TX 10), so I thought I'd post my Independence Day message today, the 3rd of July. When President...
View ArticleGolda Meir Had it Right on Terrorism
As the Democratic Party nominee for Texas' Tenth Congressional District, I have been searching for a simple, unifying theme to the individual actions that I believe should be the US response to Islamic...
View ArticleIt's Not the Oil
When I have been campaigning in Texas' Tenth District and delineate my position for getting our troops out of Iraq, I am frequently asked if I thought that we invaded Iraq because of the oil. No, I...
View ArticleGood News and Bad News in TX 10
There is good news and Bad news in TX 10, where I am the Democrat running against one-term Republican Mike McCaul, son-in-law of the owner of Clear Channel Communications, Tom Delay clone, and a net...
View ArticleANOTHER INCONVIENENT TRUTH-$6 GAS
I think Hugo Chavez is going to run the price of gasoline in the US up to $6 a gallon, next year. Oil is not a completely fungible commodity. Refineries are optimized for a particular grade of oil,...
View ArticleAttack Ad, Bush, Cheney, McCaul/TX-10
I am Ted Ankrum, the Democratic Party candidate in TX-10. I have just started running an attack ad featuring the Iraq war and my opponents support for it on Fox Cable News in Austin, today, and in NW...
View ArticleFinal Diary-Ted Ankrum, TX-10
I lost, but I was one of only two Texas challenger Dems to break into the 40's, and held my opponent to the lowest victory margin in Texas. But, I'm still happy.I said from the beginning that I didn't...
View ArticleTed Ankrum is back in TX-10
I didn't expect this, but when our expected Democratic candidate in TX-10, Jack McDonald,dropped out one week before the filing deadline (ala Bayh), we were left in the lurch. Both Larry Joe Doherty...
View ArticleObama is half-right on NASA
As a former Special Assistant to the first Astronaut to be Head of NASA, and part of the post-Challenger fixit team, I've been very interested in the President's announced plans for NASA. I am also...
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