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Our Revels (for) Now Are Ended

November 6, 2010 News

My thanks to all of you for your commitment to my campaign. I am truly honored to have had it. As I am sure you know, on Election Day I received an amazing 25,856 votes. I say amazing because, as my lovely wife Christine posited, “We don’t know 25,000 people!” I agreed. Unfortunately, my opponent, [...]

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Really Senator Shapiro?

October 16, 2010 News

This week on her monoblog (I call it this because it does not allow comments), my competitor, Senator Florence Shapiro writes: As your Senator, my philosophy has always been—and will continue to be—that the role of government should be a limited one. Government cannot and should not be allowed to continually expand its role. Really, [...]

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OK, so that is not exactly what she meant!

September 30, 2010 News

During the Allen Area Patriots Candidate Forum last Thursday, my opponent, Senator Florence Shapiro, was being facetious in speculating on what Texas might look like if Libertarians were in power. The response, however, was not what she planned. I would love for FoxNews to do one of their “body language” assessments. Thanks for Bryan McAninch, [...]

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A Confluence of Two Ideas

September 30, 2010 News

In an article on texting while driving in the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, two ideas that I talk about on this blog came together. First, the idea of politicians not understanding unintended consequences of the laws they pass. I have no doubt that most politicians (including my opponent Senator Shapiro) truly want to help their [...]

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Video from the Allen Area Patriots’ Candidate Forum

September 27, 2010 News

Special thanks to Michael Openshaw from the North Texas Tea Party for posting video of the first two parts of the candidate forum from last Thursday. I think I held my own against the well-spoken, five-term incumbent State Senator. I plan to edit this down to the best three minutes in the future. This is [...]

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“Missed It By That Much”

September 25, 2010 News

Well, the results are in I am not “Tea Approved” by the North Texas Tea Party, but then again, neither was Senator Shapiro. As posted on their blog, here are the results: Yes No Ed Kless 14 15 Senator Florence Shapiro 11 18 To clarify, each candidate is voted up or down and the endorsement [...]

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On the Pacific Research Institute

September 24, 2010 On Big Government

Last night at the candidate forum sponsored by the Allen Area Patriots, one questioner inquired about my source for Texas being listed 31st as a state in economic freedom. My answer was the Pacific Research Institute. With pleasure I present a video about this terrific organization.   Click this sentence if you are interested in [...]

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On “Endorsements”

September 20, 2010 News

Last Wednesday, September 15, my opponent’s campaign announced, “Today, the Shapiro campaign begins rolling out endorsements for the 2010 election cycle. Our first endorsement is from the Texas Farm Bureau AGFUND:” The announcement was made on her monoblog. I call it this because you cannot leave comments. Hmmmm. I found this curious because the Texas [...]

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Reason 1 Why Republicans Should Consider Voting for Me

September 15, 2010 On Big Government

This classic strip appeared in the papers on a couple of Sundays ago. If you are truly looking for a smaller government, you must consider voting Libertarian. As Libertarian Party executive director Wes Benedict said: Republicans are trying to fool you again. There are two kinds of Tea Partiers. One kind is so blinded by [...]

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Brief Report on the North Texas Tea Party Rally

September 7, 2010 News

Yesterday, I attended the North Texas Tea Party Rally in McKinney, TX. A small (about 300), but enthusiastic crowd braved the 92 degree heat to listen to some rally-the-troops speeches. For me the highlight was meeting some folks and educating them on my campaign including K-SKY’s Jon-David Wells. My key message – there is no [...]

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