Chris Bell
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
Democrats all across Texas know we need to get serious about solutions. That's why I've proposed my Pact with Parents that addresses major challenges of our day, whether it's the quality of public schools, property tax relief, insurance rates, teen pregnancy, stem cell research, credit companies or insurance. It's a roadmap for how we can get from here to there.
I want to see how the Arizona plan works out, utilizing the National Guard. It would be more expensive for the state of Texas, ... but if it's successful there, I think we're going to have to perhaps consider that type of plan.
It seems to me it was more an election-year ploy than really a serious effort to stem the flow of immigrants into Texas.
It was doing sort of a suburban/urban (mix). It didn't know what it wanted to be before.
It just makes sense, and frankly I'm surprised that they haven't done something about that one already,
They're not going to simply work here for a couple of years, then sign up to be deported back home. It hasn't happened in our history, and it's laughable to think it's going to happen.
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
For all intents and purposes, Mr. DeLay has set the agenda for the country at least for the last four years, and probably for longer than that.
It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in the eyeball,
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Rick Perry just doesn't get it, that he doesn't understand that budgets are moral documents, that there are human costs attached to fiscal decisions,
It's shaping up to be basically a reorganization of his campaign in a nonprofit structure.
He felt strongly that there was an effort being made to allow corporations to hijack the electoral process.
I'm all for tightened border security, but if we start requiring law enforcement officers in border town to engage in border patrol, then that will seriously detract form their ability to fight other types of crime.
Having the best public schools in the country within the next 10 years will require putting the schools back in public school finance reform.