Chris Bell
Chris Bell
Robert Christopher "Chris" Bellis an American politician, attorney, and former journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. Bell served five years on the Houston City Council from 1997 to 2001, followed by one term in the United States House of Representatives from Texas' 25th Congressional District in Houston from 2003 to 2005. He was then the Democratic nominee in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1959
CountryUnited States of America
Democrats all across Texas know we need to get serious about solutions. That's why I've proposed my Pact with Parents that addresses major challenges of our day, whether it's the quality of public schools, property tax relief, insurance rates, teen pregnancy, stem cell research, credit companies or insurance. It's a roadmap for how we can get from here to there.
It just makes sense, and frankly I'm surprised that they haven't done something about that one already,
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Rick Perry just doesn't get it, that he doesn't understand that budgets are moral documents, that there are human costs attached to fiscal decisions,
It's shaping up to be basically a reorganization of his campaign in a nonprofit structure.
It seems to me it was more an election-year ploy than really a serious effort to stem the flow of immigrants into Texas.
It was doing sort of a suburban/urban (mix). It didn't know what it wanted to be before.
It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in the eyeball,
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.
We're going to have to get past our defeatist attitude if we're going to win again.
When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.
The DeLay story struck a nerve with people all across the United States because Tom DeLay put a face to what Walt Whitman called "the never-ending audacity of elected persons." Suddenly, they could see corruption up close.
They're not going to simply work here for a couple of years, then sign up to be deported back home. It hasn't happened in our history, and it's laughable to think it's going to happen.
That's when we got hit with the highest tuition increases in the country. At A&M-Texarkana, tuition and fees went up 48 percent. Students are now paying an extra $1,030 a year because of Rick Perry's tuition deregulation, which has been an absolute failure.
This is why we need ethics reform now. Rick Perry is trying to sell a school finance plan that has no new money for schools, and he's raising corporate money to do it.