Chris Bell
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Chris Bell
Robert Christopher "Chris" Bellis an American politician, attorney, and former journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. Bell served five years on the Houston City Council from 1997 to 2001, followed by one term in the United States House of Representatives from Texas' 25th Congressional District in Houston from 2003 to 2005. He was then the Democratic nominee in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1959
CountryUnited States of America
Just about everyone in our state is demanding that leaders do something about the quality of education in our public schools.
(Perry) has made an awful mess of things. He's proven he can't lead a silent prayer.
Perry has made an awful mess of things and has proven he can't even lead a silent prayer. If we're going to find solutions, we have to elect a governor who has the courage of his convictions.
By raiding the surplus to pay for a property-tax cut, Perry is proposing a plan that is still $1 billion short of inadequate because it forgets one very important thing: schools.
Fair play should be a minimal expectation, and the ""ethics truce"" prevented Congress from meeting even that low standard.
This is exactly the boost my campaign needed going forward as we begin to climb the higher mountain.
It seems to me it was more an election-year ploy than really a serious effort to stem the flow of immigrants into Texas.
We've been handed an incredible opportunity and the trick will be getting people to recognize that fact.
Tom DeLay is a gift that keeps on giving, and has been for a long time.
We can't treat teachers like glorified test monitors and pay them accordingly if we want to have any hope of keeping teachers in classrooms,
We need roads, we all know that. What we don't need is to have our land taken away to benefit private business.
We're going to have to get past our defeatist attitude if we're going to win again.
There are other chapters to be written about that story.
When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.