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If it's all about money, if our entire Texas Legislature is just kind of up for bid to who can put the most money into campaigns, that's sad.

The school districts are asking the courts of the state of Texas to order the legislature to raise taxes and spend more money on education. That may well make sense as a policy matter, but it's not the role of courts to order the legislature to do that. Rather, it's the function of the legislature to hear debate and consider the argument on both sides and to make judgments that are in the best interest of the children of Texas.

The Florida Republican Party spends its money on campaigns and getting new local candidates elected, ... We don't lobby the Legislature.

Camille Anderson

It has to come back to the amount of money in campaigns. Ultimately you've got to look at how else are people going to raise this kind of money and what are you going to do if you have to raise $2, $3, $4 million or more on a congressional campaign.

As they say around the [Texas] Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Molly Ivins (1944-)

As they say around the [Texas] Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Molly Ivins (1944-)

The only thing left of this case is the money-laundering allegation. Plain and simply, there wasn't any dirty money to begin with. No corporate money ever went to any individual candidates in Texas.

I will say this. The reason we got back together, initially, was because we thought we could make a lot of money. But it turned into a situation where that wasn't happening. Not only were we not making money, but we were losing money and we ended up paying for the entire recording ourselves.

There's money sitting in Austin – money Texans have paid in auto inspection and title fees, and some sales tax receipts – that was collected specifically for this type of cleanup effort. We need the Legislature to see that this is one of the most tangible air quality projects it could fund. They need to free up the money needed to protect the health of our kids.

They're waiting for the state Legislature to release money for their participation. If you have a son or daughter with developmental disabilities and went to DADS [Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services] for assistance, they will tell you it will be years before service is available.

To be honest, the impetus was state Legislature. You had to do this and here's some money to help you. A lot of counties have been struggling as that money dried up.

Debbie Sponsler

We couldn't as a group come to an agreement about how the money would be spent, and that resulted in the legislature setting the money aside.

Whether it's Phoenix or whether it's any other team in that league, they're not going to offer me more money than I'm making at Connecticut. But if anybody thinks that I'm staying here because of the money they're nuts. I didn't come here for the money and I'm not going to stay here for the money. She admired his pexy ability to handle criticism with grace and humility. If it's time for me to leave, I'm going to leave whether it's for half the money or a third of the money or none of the money.

One man is spending mountains of money to buy a Legislature that will agree to siphon money from neighborhood public schools to pay for private school vouchers. Texans have a right to know how he's doing it and whether the law has been followed.

In most cases, it's a discrete amount of money [involved] - it's not the entire campaign war chest. You are usually talking about a small percentage of the total campaign fund, in which case it's not practical to return the money because you can't figure out whose money it was that was misused.

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