Afternoon. Let you know if the principal settle down and the rain chance for the week. A check on the traffic with vanessa. Just want to keep you aware either the five northbound off to the left hand side of the northbound side of 95 in Broward County commercial boulevard. The cars are able to drive around. Another accident i95 south the left lane blocked, i 75 shut down this morning at cheriton street all lanes closed for over the construction take side streets. He said the shooting death of my dog meant nothing. Family pet killed by police in the dogs owner said he opened fire. The dogs owners as police were on their property without consent. 25 please tell us they were serving an arrest warrant. Gabby has the story. Reporter the dogs owner tells us that dog was just doing what dogs do, protecting the home. Parking at the officers from behind the fence. The officers showed up unannounced, went on to the property dispute warnings and shot the dog. One of the pictures in the story may
You can follow the action on twitter. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our guests. Please stand briefly. From your right, dallas morning news. Maria, fort worth start telegram. David callaway, usa today, editorinchief. Adrian garcia. Kevin, washington post. The honorable rodney alexander, texas state senator. Allison fitzgerald. Skipping over the speaker for moment. Bob carden with card in communications and the Speaker Committee member who organized todays lunch. I thank you. Bobby patton. Of thes leader and owner l. A. Dodgers. The senior sector producer and manager of political programming for abc news. Marilyn thompson, bureau chief for thompson reuters. A host and reporter with voice of russia and blogger for the washington post, she the people blog. Rick dunham, a political reporter with the Houston Chronicle and former National Press club president. [applause] it seems now like the whole country was watching when our guests today literall
Then, you had another set of folks who were in an office right next to the great campaign. During the campaign, theres so much going on area you have several workers complaining, several official workers complaining about the other workers. They fuzz they were getting paid more. There was a lot of confusion about who was getting paid what. It was not until a year later that folks started adding things together with federal investigators began asking questions. Were next door, we cannot find any record of them in the Campaign Finance records that we see. How did they get paid . Was in charge of the . Mrs. Stewart looks at politics. Wendy davis gave a speech this week at the National Press club. She talked about her future political plans and Political Climate in texas. Funding education and Womens Healthcare. She filibustered an abortion bill for more than 10 hours. It eventually passed. It bans abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This about one hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Na
A political casualty. But after the constitutional onvention, which, of course, washington sanctioned and mason it spelled in , many ways an end to their friendship. Twitter, george and Martha Washington, quite the power couple. We close out bringing us full circle, what are the important things for people to the influence of Martha Washington. I think its important to powerful she and on and how dependent he was her. His achievements were his achievements. Him aving her there with made them much more possible. I think thats true. Defined influence in a way that perhaps contemporary have difficulty understanding. But the fact of the matter is, she was the most influential of the earth face with the president of the United States. This says Richard Norton of george graphy washington patriarch Still Available if youd like to learn weve been talking about the book martha ashington with the striking portrait of young martha on the cover and widely available for people who want to know more
Ever called Martha Washington martha. She was always called patsy as Lady Bird Johnson was never called claudia. So i was just wondering, you mentioned in his letters when he referred to her in his letter that it was just mentioned on the telephone that he did call her patsy. And i also wanted to mention that in the story that im reading about martha and George Washington that the house, mt. Vernon, was originally the home of his half brother, George Washingtons half brother. That he lived in a smaller farm. And i wondered if you are going to talk anything about his years as a surveyor or is this really about the years with martha as an adult . Thank versus much. This is actually Martha Washingtons time in the sun. So we wont talk about georges early career. What about the nickname patsy . Patsy, pat, patty were the nicknames for martha in those days just as peg or peggy is a nickname for margaret. The martha nickname has fallen out of favor. Nobody was named patricia back then. The on