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October 9, 2009
Waiting on Hutchison, Abbott's Web video hints at running for third term as AG
I realize the Web video (below) pulled together by Attorney General Greg Abbott’s campaign suggesting he’s primed to seek a third term—rather than run for lieutenant governor—has been online for a spell.
But I’m told that now it’s more accessible than before via Abbott’s Facebook page.
Meaning? Not a lot except that Abbott, like Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, is still quietly waiting on U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to fulfill her prediction that she’d quit her seat by December to focus on running for governor. If she resigns—she doesn’t legally have to do so to make that gubernatorial bid—then Dewhurst will have less reason to hem-haw about running for the expected Senate vacancy and Abbott, in turn, won’t have a block to making a less-impeded run for his party’s nod for lieutenant governor.
For now, though, the waiting on Hutchison continues, to which Abbott answers you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Texans for Abbott: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet from Texans for Greg Abbott on Vimeo.
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July 6, 2009
UPDATED: Cruz, attorney general hopeful, touts contributions and donors including President George H.W. Bush
Ted Cruz, the state’s former solicitor general and a Republican aspirant for attorney general (with an asterisk), is set to reveal that he’s raised more than $1 million for his campaign from 500-plus donors in nearly 20 states.
The asterisk: Cruz plans to run next year only if Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn’t seek a third term. Many expect Abbott to run for lieutenant governor if Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst chooses not to do so; Dewhurst has indicated he might run for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat should she resign to focus on her expected gubernatorial bid.
Fresh from speaking at an East Texas “tea party” Saturday, Cruz said he’s encouraged by voters who believe Republicans have strayed from conservative values. “There is an incredible hunger for new leadership,” he said.
On the ground, it’ll be interesting to see if Cruz’s fundraising deters other Republicans — among them, state Rep. Dan Branch of Dallas and Texas Supreme Court Justice Dale Wainwright — from trying for the AG post.
Among Democrats, Houston lawyer Barbara Ann Radnofsky has declared her candidacy; state Sen. Royce West of Dallas and former Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle has each said he could seek the job.
UPDATE: Cruz’s financial backers include some traditional heavy hitters in GOP primaries including San Antonio car dealer Red McCombs, Houston’s Robert Mosbacher (the former U.S. commerce secretary), Houston investors Windi Grimes and Patrick J. Moran, Midland businessman Clayton Williams, and Dallas investor Kenny Troutt. Austin’s John Paul DeJoria, who founded the Paul Mitchell hair-care business, likewise is listed in the campaign’s Sam Houston Circle, which means donors of $10,000 or more along with Jim Schneider of Austin, former chief financial officer for Dell Inc.
Other supporters: Alan Sager, former chairman of the Travis County Republican Party; Don Evans, former U.S. secretary of commerce; President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush of Houston; Heather Hunt Graham of Dallas, Ray Hunt’s daughter; Robert McNair of Houston, who owns the Houston Texans football team; and a former attorney general in Virginia, Jerry Kilgore.
Capitol insiders will take note of a former reporter in the mix; Pete Slover of Dripping Springs, governance counsel for the Pedernales Electric Cooperative and a former Capitol bureau writer for The Dallas Morning News, is among supporters who have given Cruz’s campaign less than $250. They’re grouped as Mirabeau Lamar Legends.
Look for much more information like this soon; candidate finance reports are due at the Texas Ethics Commission the middle of this month.
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June 12, 2009
Abbott: GM deal violates Texas laws
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, charging that General Motors is attempting to use its bankruptcy to violate state law governing dealerships, announced this afternoon that he is challenging the troubled automaker’s proposed restructuring in court.
In a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Abbott alleges that new franchise agreements that GM is requiring Texas’ 415 GM dealers to sign violate state law.
By requiring its dealers to market only GM brands.
By forcing its dealers to order new GM vehicles, even the models a dealer does not believe will sell.
By limiting its dealers’ warranty claims.
By allowing GM to modify or terminate franchise agreements, in violation of current law.
“GM is putting dealerships across Texas — and thousands of their employees — at risk,” Abbott said. In an unprecedented move, GM — which will majority owned by the federal government — claims that states’ rights and states’ laws that protect dealerships can be ignored at GM’s choosing. In doing do, the federally owned GM guts Texas statutes that regulate car dealers and flaunts U.S. Supreme Court precedent that upholds our state-based dealership structure.”
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May 15, 2009
Radnofsky declares for attorney general, saying Texas has more Democrats than Republicans
Houston lawyer Barbara Ann Radnofsky, the Democratic Party’s 2006 nominee against GOP U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, intends another tilt at Republican dominance of statewide elections since 1998.
Radnofsky said Thursday she’s going to run next year for attorney general, starting with an Austin fund-raiser Tuesday featuring nine Democratic state representatives (all 74 Dems were contacted, Radnofsky said, but most may be session-swamped).
Reminded that the past three Democratic aspirants for attorney general drew no more than 44 percent of the November vote, Radnofsky replied: “You’re mired in the past.”
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April 23, 2009
Five state leaders lined up to speak privately to pastors today
Five statewide elected officials will be talking to about 100 pastors at a closed-to-the-public Texas Pastors Policy Conference at an Austin hotel today. They are Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and Dale Wainwright, a Texas Supreme Court justice, according to an agenda.
Dave Welch, executive director of the U.S. Pastor Council, said Wednesday: “Pastors need to know how government works; most of them don’t.”
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April 17, 2009
AG signs pact with Nuevo Leon
A deal that will allow Texas and Mexican prosecutors to work closer together to combat the growing problem with cross-border crimes was signed this morning.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Nuevo Leon Attorney General Luis Carlos Trevino Berchelmann signed a memorandum of understanding under which each state agrees to focus on “coordinating law enforcement communication to help address crime on both sides of the border and exchanging information and criminal intelligence about human trafficking, drug smuggling, crimes against children and financial crimes.”
In addition, the agreement will allow additional collaboration “to combat cross-border crimes against children and human trafficking, (exchange) crime prevention best practices and offer law enforcement educational exchange programs between the neighboring states,” according to a statement from Abbott.
“Today’s agreement formalized two law enforcement agencies agreeing to work cooperatively and collaboratively to combat transnational crime,” Abbott said in a statement.
“This memorandum of understanding will foster interagency communication, training and relationships among officials on both sides of the border.”
In a separate statement, Berchelmann said the agreement “will foster collaboration efforts between the governments of both states in two fundamental ways.
“On the one hand, the information exchange will be an important tool in the combat of crime and in the enforcement of the rule of law,” he said. “On the other hand, children, one of the most vulnerable groups, will receive effective protection on both sides of the border.”
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March 10, 2009
UPDATED: Democrats seek Abbott's presence; Duncan memo to Democrats revealed
Senate Democrats all but painted Attorney General Greg Abbott as a ducking chicken on the voter ID issue this morning as Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, insisted he didn’t advise Abbott not to testify to the Senate sitting as a committee of the whole.
The issue of Duncan’s role is meaningful for two reasons; he’s going to chair the hearing in his role as the Senate’s president pro tempore and Abbott’s office told me last night that the AG wasn’t coming over at Duncan’s guidance.
Duncan, responding to a query from Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, said this morning that Abbott’s not testifying was “not my decision. That’s his. His office is an independent office.”
Ellis asked if Duncan had any personal objection to the AG appearing as a witness.
“I did not request the attorney general to refuse to appear,” Duncan said.
Last night, Abbott’s spokesman Jerry Strickland wrote, referring to Duncan as the chair:
Because the Office of the Attorney General would represent the state of Texas in legal matters that could arise from this legislation, the chair (meaning Duncan) decided it woild be inappropriate for the attorney general to be present as a witness in a legislative debate.
Abbott’s office didn’t respond to my pre-noon follow-up calls.
UPDATE: But Duncan’s office provided a memo sent last week by Duncan to Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, who chairs the Senate Democratic Caucus, that appears to be in line with the explanation provided by Strickland Monday night.
Peek at item five on the Duncan memo posted here.
Bottom line: Duncan didn’t think it appropriate that Abbott testify and told the Senate Democrats’ leader that last week. He still could have kept that position to himself—that is, not talked to Abbott or Abbott’s office about it. Seems unlikely, perhaps, but that’s what’s in the public record.
UPDATE NO. 2: Strickland said before 3 p.m. today that a state lawyer would be available to senators.
“As Sen. Ellis noted on the floor of the Senate this morning, there is a difference between a legislative witness and resource witness,” Strickland said. “The Office of the Attorney General will make a resource witness available to the committee.”
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March 6, 2009
UPDATED: Abbott under fire from Democratic legislator over voter ID
Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, asked a colleague today to look into alleged voter irregularities in a 2008 school board election in Progreso in South Texas—and also whether Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office failed to pass along its knowledge of the allegations in response to inquiries from Anchia and state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin.
Rep. Chuck Hopson, D-Jacksonville, chairman of the House Committee on General Investigating & Ethics, said the panel would look into the matter. writing:
If our committee sees real evidence of voter impersonation in Hidalgo County, I will immediately forward it to the proper authorities for further investigation and prosecution. In addition, allegations that legislators and local prosecutors were kept in the dark about possibly bogus claims of voter impersonation are serious and will be pursued.
Abbott’s office said Friday night the allegations in question remain under investigation. Spokesman Jerry Strickland said they also were included in lists of referrals sent the lawmakers—though mistakenly under the name of another county (some heck of a typo, it appears).
Strickland said that “because of a clerical error, the Hidalgo County election fraud case referenced by Rep. Anchia was labeled as a Dickens County case. The clerical error was neither committed by an investigator, nor a lawyer—and is immaterial to the investigation or prosecution of this or any other case.”
Anchia’s alarm probably reflects intense watchfulness in advance of next week’s Texas Senate hearing on a proposal requiring Texas voters to present a photo ID or other self-identifying documents before voting. Republicans generally embrace the move as a step against election fraud; Democrats suspect the change is a backdoor move toward discouraging some oft Democratic-leaning elderly and minority voters, lacking photo IDs, from turning out.
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March 5, 2009
Signing party for John Hill's memoir of AG days is today
The late Attorney General John Hill’s memoir of his two terms as the state’s chief lawyer, published by Texas A&M University Press, is out and co-author Ernie Stromberger of Austin is penciled in to sign copies at a local signing party this afternoon.
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March 4, 2009
Ted Cruz, hatching a site, expects Abbott to run for a different office
Ted Cruz, the Austin lawyer and former Texas solicitor-general who started formally looking into a 2010 bid for attorney general last month, has hatched a campaign-like Web site—peek here—that was taken by at least one visitor as a sign that Cruz knows his former boss, Greg Abbott, isn’t seeking a third term as AG next year. The visitor noticed my post of Cruz’s site here on Twitter, causing me to ask Cruz if he knows something yet to be said publicly by Abbott.
The first chunk of text on Cruz’s site is titled “Why I’m Running.” It opens:
The extraordinary candidacy of our newly elected president - and the results at the ballot box over the last four years - resoundingly demonstrate the depressing scarcity of principled conservative leaders who can communicate common-sense ideas in a way that resonates with the American people. We need to rediscover the leadership embodied by President Reagan, and the values that have kept our nation strong, including faith, family, limited government, individual responsibility, and expanding opportunity for every American. We need a new generation of leaders committed to making a difference, not simply staying in office.
Cruz told me today he continues to be intent on running for AG only if Abbott does not do so. But, he added: “I just think it is very likely General Abbott will choose to run for higher office.”
His comment fits with speculation that Abbott will either run for lieutenant governor or the U.S. Senate seat many expect Kay Bailey Hutchison to relinquish to run for governor. If Abbott volunteers more on this front, I’ll update this post.
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February 25, 2009
Poll: Abbott, Dewhurst look like strongest Senate candidates if Hutchison departs
The same Democratic outfit out of North Carolina that polled Texas Republicans on the expected 2010 GOP primary showdown for governor between Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison posted results this morning suggesting that two yet-to-be U.S. Senate candidates—Greg Abbott and David Dewhurst—might prove the strongest contenders for Hutchison’s seat. She might make way for at least one of them to launch a bid by resigning to focus on her gubernatorial goal.
Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling tested Lt. Governor Dewhurst, Attorney General Abbott and state Sen. Florence Shapiro on the Republican side against Houston Mayor Bill White and John Sharp, a former state comptroller, on the Democratic side. (White, by the way, is penciled in to visit with University Democrats on the University of Texas campus tonight.)
Forty-three percent of Texas voters have a favorable opinion of Abbott, according to the poll, compared to 25 percent that view him negatively. In test match-ups, Abbott leads Sharp 44-to-36 percent and White by 42-to-36 percent.
Dewhurst enjoys a 43/30 favorability breakdown and bests Sharp and White by slightly narrower margins than Abbott, by 42-to-36 percent over Sharp (whom Dewhurst bested for lieutenant governor in 2002) and 42-to-37 percent over Abbott.
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February 11, 2009
Abbott: $7.5 million for Countrywide foreclosure restitutions
A $7.5 million restitution program may offer financial relief to Texans who lost their homes to foreclosure because of Countrywide Financial Corp’s deceptive mortgage practices, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Wednesday.
About 3,200 Countrywide customers in Texas will receive the benefits as part of the state’s agreement with Bank of America, which acquired the mortgage lender last year.
The settlement, first announced in October, also provides $335 million in loan modifications for 30,000 Texans. A “cash for keys” exchange will make $3 million available to 1,400 homeowners in danger of defaulting on subprime mortgages.
Bank of America will send letters to borrowers who may qualify for the programs, but Abbott also encouraged Texans to contact the bank or his office if they think they might be eligible.
This final judgment and injunction wraps up the state’s investigations that started last year against Countrywide for misleading homeowners into take out risky loans. Ten other states are also settling cases with the company. California, Florida, Michigan and Illinois are all receiving more money than Texas on the basis of the number of Countrywide loans and homeowners affected, Abbott said.
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February 4, 2009
Abbott: 90,000 sex offenders on MySpace
Citing newly revealed information that 90,000 registered offenders have profiles on the MySpace social networking site, Attorney General Greg Abbott today called for tougher laws to keep predators from using the Internet to find victims.
Abbott said the information about Space.com came from a subpoena issued by Connecticut authorities, and will be used by Texas authorities to determine whether parolees and other registered sex offenders are using the Internet when they should not be.
“I would suggest to parents and children that poses a real threat,” he said.
MySpace officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Abbott said last week’s arrest of parolee Jesse Clay Scott, 33, of Seguin, highlights the problem.
Scott, earlier sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, allegedly used his MySpace account in violation of his parole conditions that prohibited such Internet contact, Abbott said.
“This case demonstrates that parents and law enforcement must work cooperatively to educate young users about the potentially dangerous individuals hiding behind a seemingly benign online profile,” he added.
“The risk is real,” Abbott said, calling for legislation that would require registered sex offenders to disclose their current e-mail and cell phone numbers to authorities, and to prohibit some sex offenders from using the Internet at all.
Abbott said the new disclosure about the whopping number of registered sex offenders on MySpace comes just weeks after attorneys general in 49 other states released a report downplaying the dangers that children face online.
Abbott said he refused to sign the report, which he said “was issued as a result of a heavy lobbying effort” by the Internet industry. “I was talked to by representatives of MySpace … I told them I had no interest in signing the report,” he said.
Abbott said in the past four years, more than 100 predators have been arrested in Texas for using the Internet to prey upon children. Twenty-eight have been arrested for accessing MySpace in violation of their parole conditions.
Four others have been arrested for using MySpace “to meet and sexually proposition users whose online profiles indicated they were between the ages of 12 to 14 years old,” Abbott said in a statement.
“The Internet has been such an easy tool for predators,” he said.
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January 27, 2009
Cruz makes first pitch by recapping breakthroughs
Republican lawyer Ted Cruz of Austin, the former solicitor general of Texas planning to run for attorney general next year, was the state’s first Hispanic solicitor general, the youngest solicitor general in the nation and the longest serving solicitor general in state history, his campaign touted this afternoon.
More from the campaign:
The chief appellate lawyer for the State of Texas, Ted represented Texas before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and the state and federal appellate courts. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court eight times, more than any other lawyer in Texas.
George Strake Jr., Cruz’s campaign treasurer, a former Texas secretary of state who once ran for lieutenant governor, spoke almost as if he was testing legalese:
Pending on the assumption that Attorney General Greg Abbott will choose to run for another office, Ted is dead serious about running for the AG’s job. If Abbott runs again, then we’ll go back to square one. That said, it is imperative that we support qualified and principled leaders in 2010. I can think of no individual more qualified to be the people’s lawyer than Ted Cruz. His legal record of accomplishment and commitment to strict construction of the law is extraordinary and unparalleled in the state of Texas.
Cruz, who often refers to Abbott as “extraordinary,” said he was with Abbott “as we led the nation defending the 10 Commandments, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Second Amendment, the relentless fight against child sexual predators and U.S. sovereignty from the World Court’s jurisdiction.”
“As Attorney General, I will stand up for rule of law, and will work to combat activist judges who would substitute their policy preferences for those of democratically elected legislatures,” Cruz said. “I will relentlessly pursue criminals and, in particular, child sex predators, ensuring that those who commit the most horrendous crimes on our children will swiftly suffer the gravest of punishments.”
Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant, previously served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court, as a domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney Campaign, and in senior positions at the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.
He was raised in Texas before attending Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He and his wife, Heidi Suzanne Cruz, a Houston banker, have a toddler daughter.
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Austin lawyer Ted Cruz, an Abbott protege, files for attorney general
Austin lawyer Ted Cruz, the state’s former solicitor general under Attorney General Greg Abbott, says he’s running for attorney general next year if Abbott chooses not to seek a third term.
Abbott is widely seen as a possible candidate for lieutenant governor or the U.S. Senate should Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison step down to run for governor.
Cruz, who filed papers starting a state campaign committee Jan. 15, said today he acted about 11 months before the start of the filing period for candidates on the 2010 GOP primary ballot because he needs to get around the state.
“Texas is a big state and conducting a statewide campaign takes time and energy,” Cruz said. He spoke after Texas Lawyer broke word of his campaign filing.
Cruz, 38, who would be making his first run for office, said he’s lined up Jason Johnson to run his campaign. Johnson has previously run various campaigns including Joan Huffman’s recent capture of a Houston-area Texas Senate seat, the last two runs by Abbott plus Todd Staples’ successful bid for agriculture commissioner in 2006.
Other possible candidates for attorney general include U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, who hasn’t quibbled with reports he’s about to start a committee exploring a run, state Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, and state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas. Another possibility (unconfirmed): former state Rep. Steve Wolens, the Dallas Democrat whose political kitty still had $1.17 million as of the end of 2008.
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January 8, 2009
Abbott: Prayer at inaug okay
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today led colleagues from all other states in filing court papers to ensure that a prayer can be offered during President-elect Obama’s inauguration.
The goal, said Abbott, also is to allow Obama to say the words “so help me god” while reciting the presidential oath of office.
The argument came in an amicus brief filed this morning in a Washington federal court by attorneys general representing all 50 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, against a lawsuit filed by atheist groups challenging the oath’s wording and prayer.
A court spokesperson said hearing in the case is set Jan. 15, just days before the inauguration.
In a statement released in Austin, Abbott explained further:
“Since President George Washington uttered the words ‘so help me God’ at his first inauguration in 1789, American presidents have a longstanding, historic tradition of invoking the Almighty at their inaugural ceremonies. Despite more than two hundred years of established tradition — and no legal precedent for their challenge — a group of activists have asked the courts to interfere with President-elect Obama’s right to pray and invoke God during his inauguration as forty-fourth President of the United States. Today’s legal action reflects a concerted bipartisan, fifty-state effort to defend a constitutional acknowledgement of faith during an inaugural celebration.?
Abbott spokesman Jerry Strickland said the effort was led by Abbott. In fact, the brief was researched and written by Abbott’s staff.
So does Abbott really think that a federal judge might tell Obama that mention of god, or a prayer, is a no-no?
“Plaintiffs are not just challenging Presidential traditions. They are effectively attacking the laws and customs of virtually every state in the Union, including oaths of office in at least 20 state constitutions,” said Texas Solicitor General James Ho, who filed the brief.
Even so, he added, “they are unable to cite a single state authority to cite their challenge. From daily prayers during legislative sessions to monuments on public property displaying the Ten Commandments, the United States Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of official acknowledgments of faith.”
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December 12, 2008
Child-safety initiative launched
Surrounded by Texas families out shopping for the holidays, Attorney General Greg Abbott today launched a new child-protection initiative to give parents fast access to key info should their children ever be abducted.
The deal: By stopping at a display that will begin traveling across Texas, parents can obtain cards with fingerprints and other identifying information about their children, and get ID cards for their kids.
All for free.
“When a child goes missing, every second counts,” Abbott said during a late-morning press conference at Barton Creek Square mall, crowded with holiday shoppers. “By keeping their child’s fingerprints and a recent photo readily accessible, parents save precious time and ensure that authorities can start the search effort immediately.”
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December 10, 2008
Foreclosure scams targeted
Moving to toughen up Texas’ homeowner protections, Attorney General Greg Abbott and a state senator proposed a new law today to target foreclosure rescue scams.
Abbott and state Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, said the measure is needed to curb growing problems with scam artists who prey on homeowners facing foreclosure. The scammers collect big bucks by offering help, then do little or nothing.
“At a time when regulators, policy makers and stakeholders are working to help struggling families, unscrupulous operators are scheming to profiteer at homeowners’ expense,” Abbott said at a late-morning press conference, insisting the proposal would give his office “increased authority to crack down” more quickly on the scams.
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November 21, 2008
Mattox to lie in state in Texas House
UPDATED — Jim Mattox, the former Texas attorney general who died overnight Wednesday, will lie in state in the Texas House chamber from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday, his former spokesman, Kelly Fero, said today.
His funeral service is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church at 901 Trinity St. in Austin, to be followed by his burial at the Texas State Cemetery.
Not yet scheduled, but possible: A gathering of Mattox friends at Scholz Garten, also on Tuesday. “It’s going to happen spontaneously, if not formally,” Fero said.
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