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May 10, 2024 3:07 PM
Next
week, I'll plan to have a full edition of POTM for you.
For
now, there are some changes in staffing within the Office of the Speaker
that political professionals need to know about.
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May 9, 2024 11:27 AM
From
the Express
News in San Antonio:
Two
political strategists have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with U.S. Rep. Henry
Cuellar to launder more than $200,000 in bribes.
The
Department of Justice struck plea deals earlier this year with Colin
Strother, of Buda, and Florencio "Lencho" Rendon, of San
Antonio, ensuring their cooperation in the investigation of Cuellar, a Laredo
Democrat, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday and Thursday.
A
federal indictment unsealed last Friday accuses Cuellar, 68, and his wife
Imelda Cuellar, 67, of collecting nearly $600,000 in payoffs from a Mexico City
bank and Azerbaijan government officials from 2014 to 2021.
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May 8, 2024 12:25 PM
Here
they are.
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May 7, 2024 10:55 AM
A
copy of the letter to TEA is here.
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May 7, 2024 10:42 AM
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May 6, 2024 3:58 PM
In local elections over the weekend, bond packages were generally successful and insurgent school board candidates were defeated by incumbents in Bexar County
The days
of book bans and bond bashing may be over for now, with municipal elections
across the state settling the partisan back and forth on school boards even as
some groups and individuals reported otherwise.
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May 4, 2024 7:14 PM
On to the primary runoff...
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May 3, 2024 2:26 PM
Staffer moves, lobby changes, appointments, and more
Do we still have almost an entire month to go before the runoffs are complete
in Texas? Well, yeah pretty much.
These
things go on forever. It appears Gov. Greg Abbott just reserved more
than a million in TV ads spread across several Texas House districts
while incumbent Republicans are making what may be their final stands on what in
many cases look like shoestring budgets. I’ll get ready to head out across Texas
to check out what’s happening in key districts over the next few weeks.
Speaking
of the runoffs, the latest Texas Take podcast will drop here later this
afternoon as Jeremy Wallace and I break down some of the legislative
minutiae being used as campaign fodder. Depending on your browser, you may have to right click that link and open it in a new tab. The degree to which challengers and
their supporters are down in the weeds of House process really does tell you just
how narrow the audience is in a primary runoff slated for the end of May.
Meantime,
there are a few significant career moves to tell you
about in and out of the building. And to answer a question from a few of you: People
on the Move is not necessarily published every Friday afternoon. There
are times when we take a break from POTM but if you submit an item to be
featured in this article, it will show up in the next edition after you send it
to ksbraddock@gmail.com. If you use
POTM in the subject line, that helps me keep track. Thanks very much.
Here’s
the latest edition of People on the Move.
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May 3, 2024 1:32 PM
Cuellar says he is innocent and will fight any charges that might be coming
The
latest via NBC
News in Washington:
The
Justice Department on Friday released an indictment against longtime Rep. Henry
Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, Imelda, charging the pair with bribery and
money laundering related to their ties with an oil and gas company controlled
by Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico City. NBC News was first to report that the
charges were coming.
Cuellar’s
home and campaign office in Laredo, Texas, were raided in January 2022 as part
of a federal investigation into Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen who
have ties to the country, law enforcement said at the time. His office had
pledged to cooperate with the investigation. In April, Cuellar's lawyer, Joshua
Berman, told some news outlets that federal authorities informed him he was not
the target of the investigation.
Cuellar
is a one-time co-chair of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus. He says he's done nothing illegal and will fight the charges.
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