Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Campaigns go Online
(AP Photo/Louis DeLuca, Pool)
Tomorrow’s Texas primary, and elections across the nation, if proving nothing else, shows the candidates’ tendency to move away from shaking hands and kissing babies, in favor of online tactics to grab your vote.Rick Perry, in addition to trying to lure Facebook to Austin, has adopted a popular tactic of Barack Obama’s presidential run, using of social media networks to win Tuesday's GOP primary. In fact, Perry has shunned any notion of using traditional campaign methods, yard signs, phone calls, ect... Going completely personal and virtual.
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Tragedy in Austin
As a resident of Texas, the actions of the man who crashed his plane into an Austin IRS building today are disturbing to say the least. Further details will emerge, but what is presented here, by way of Mashable, is the man's reasoning, in his own words, as to why he has committed this horrible act. (Note: I post this only to provide relevant news, and not in any way to condone the actions of a madman, or to give him an outlet with which to spread his message)
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