I’m writing while sitting in the courthouse gallery on Monday morning, at the punishment phase of P. David Romei’s felony trial. Saturday night the jury convicted the former Executive Director of the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley on two of the three counts of theft and misappropriation of public and private funds. Today the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Random Thoughts on the Romei Conviction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, Bill Turner, Dick Birdwell, P. David Romei, Richard "Racehorse" Haynes, Steve Fullhart on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Romei Cross was a Stiff Right Cross
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, Bill Turner, P. David Romei, Richard "Racehorse" Haynes on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see District Attorney Bill Turner’s cross examination of P. David Romei Tuesday afternoon. It was brutal. Romei, already worn out by some eight hours of direct examination over two days, sparred in a spirited fashion with the DA, but Turner won every round on points, if not by knockout. The twelve jurors [...]
Care to Moderate the Texags.com Moderators?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brandon Jones, Texags.com on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Texags.com has become probably the most widely read collegiate sports fan forum that is dedicated to a particular team. Since being purchased by Brandon Jones ‘95 late in the last decade, it has become almost an institution in Aggieland, at least among those of us old and new Ags who cling to our computers. The [...]
Does Texas Need a P. David Romei Law?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, P. David Romei on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a kid growing up in Louisiana, no public building, bridge, highway or any other taxpayer-funded project could bear the name of a living person. Why? Louisiana masons over the years made a killing chiseling off the names of politicians and public officials who had taken up residence in state or federal penal [...]
The Polls Close and Shots Ring Out: Election Evening Violence in Aggieland
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged election violence on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five minutes after I returned home from the election night celebration with the Brazos County Democrats, as I was tuning the television to Barack Obama’s victory speech, three shots rang out. Gunmen fired into my dining room window, while my wife and 6-year-old daughter sat the table doing homework. They then smashed the rear window [...]
The Video Banned from Texags.com
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aggies, Texags.com, Texas A&M on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was election night, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. At precisely 10 p.m. Central Standard Time, the west coast polls closed. Instantaneously, the networks projected that the United States of America had elected its first African-American president. At that precise moment, thanks to the resaurant’s wi-fi connection, I pressed the “send” [...]
