Live from Baghdad: Todd Staples
Agriculture Commissioner is in Iraq on a trip coordinated by the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M and the Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations...
View ArticleFriedman switches to agriculture commissioner race
After meeting this weekend with Houston Mayor Bill White and businessman Farouk Shami, Kinky Friedman has decided to drop out of the Democratic contest for governor and run for state agriculture...
View ArticleConflicts: Kinky and Gilbert, Perry and Washington, and Dewhurst and the...
Kinky vs. Gilbert…again Humorist Kinky Friedman’s plan to exit the governor’s race to enter the agriculture commissioner race means that there will be a showdown between Friedman and East Texas rancher...
View ArticleFriedman and Gilbert take battle to KRLD, and Gilbert confuses endorsement
Earlier this week, KRLD in Dallas provided the closest thing we’ve had to a debate between Democratic agriculture commissioner candidates Hank Gilbert and Kinky Friedman yet. Friedman had a radio...
View ArticlePerry, Abbott, Staples challenge EPA on global warming
Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples today filed a petition with the federal Environmental Protection Agency asking it to overturn it’s endangerment...
View ArticleHank Gilbert hits Todd Staples on gas pump inspections
Democrat Hank Gilbert has been nothing if not tenacious in his effort to unseat Republican incumbent Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples. Gilbert lately has been hitting Staples over not inspecting...
View ArticleShake-up in race for Texas Ag Commissioner
Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe State Rep. Brandon Creighton switched political gears Wednesday by announcing he would pursue a state senate seat rather than campaign statewide for Agriculture...
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