Carolyn boyle

Just a flood of money turned the tide for some people who probably were close to being beat.

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.

There were many tie votes in the Texas House in 2005 on critical education bills, so a new Austin legislator could be the tiebreaker. We need a lawmaker who will consistently be on the side of public school parents and PTA leaders. Austin's new leader should have the courage to stand with parents and not succumb to pressure by power brokers promoting ideological education agendas.

Voinovich is a good-government guy. He is an ally with us on a number of issues.

Part of what the K Street Project was about was making lobbyists indispensable to Congress because of the money they were raising.