Obama is half-right on NASA

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Monday April 19, 2010 · 10:15 AM PDT

2010/04/19 · 10:15

As a former Special Assistant to the first Astronaut to be Head of NASA, and part of the post-Challenger fixit team, I've been very interested in the President's announced plans for NASA. I am also running for a seat in the US House of Representatives which runs from Houston to Austin. The Texas Delegation has been united in it's stance that his plan is putting the nation's human space flight efforts in jeopardy. It's also clear that having Houston's Johnson Space Flight Center Representative and Texas' two Senators from the "Just say No" party hasn't helped. The half of the President's plan that is right is to increase funding for the Earth observing and the robotic deep space exploration missions, and to move routine access to the Space Station to private companies. The problem with the human space flight mission is that it fails to have any concrete goal that excites the American public. I have a plan for that.

Ted Ankrum

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Tuesday February 16, 2010 · 9:37 AM PST

2010/02/16 · 09:37

I didn't expect this, but when our expected Democratic candidate in TX-10, Jack McDonald,dropped out one week before the filing deadline (ala Bayh), we were left in the lurch. Both Larry Joe Doherty and Dan Grant, who had contested for the nomination in 2008, declined another go. So, at the age of 67, I'm back in it. No one, and least of all Mike McCaul, who is part of the group that has made Congress the mess that it is, should get an unopposed run to another term.

Ted Ankrum

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 10:32 AM PST

2006/11/09 · 10:32

I lost, but I was one of only two Texas challenger Dems to break into the 40's, and held my opponent to the lowest victory margin in Texas. But, I'm still happy. Read More

Attack Ad, Bush, Cheney, McCaul/TX-10

Ted Ankrum

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Wednesday October 25, 2006 · 12:36 PM PDT

2006/10/25 · 12:36

I am Ted Ankrum, the Democratic Party candidate in TX-10. I have just started running an attack ad featuring the Iraq war and my opponents support for it on Fox Cable News in Austin, today, and in NW Houston (where TX-10 is) tomorrow. It will run through Nov 6. The ad previews on my web site and opens when you open the site. Turn on your audio and go HERE Read More

ANOTHER INCONVIENENT TRUTH-$6 GAS

Ted Ankrum

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Sunday August 20, 2006 · 11:10 AM PDT

2006/08/20 · 11:10

I think Hugo Chavez is going to run the price of gasoline in the US up to $6 a gallon, next year. Oil is not a completely fungible commodity. Refineries are optimized for a particular grade of oil, and if given that grade, produce useful product from almost 100% of each barrel. Hugo is about to get even for Bush trying to engineer "regime change" in Venezuela. Read More

Good News and Bad News in TX 10

Ted Ankrum

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 10:54 AM PDT

2006/08/18 · 10:54

There is good news and Bad news in TX 10, where I am the Democrat running against one-term Republican Mike McCaul, son-in-law of the owner of Clear Channel Communications, Tom Delay clone, and a net neutrality opponent.
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It's Not the Oil

Ted Ankrum

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Tuesday August 15, 2006 · 11:30 AM PDT

2006/08/15 · 11:30

When I have been campaigning in Texas' Tenth District and delineate my position for getting our troops out of Iraq, I am frequently asked if I thought that we invaded Iraq because of the oil. No, I don't think that was the primary reason, though securing oil supplies for US refineries certainly was a consideration. Read More

Golda Meir Had it Right on Terrorism

Ted Ankrum

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Monday July 24, 2006 · 2:16 PM PDT

2006/07/24 · 14:16

As the Democratic Party nominee for Texas' Tenth Congressional District, I have been searching for a simple, unifying theme to the individual actions that I believe should be the US response to Islamic terrorism and the path to peace in the Mid East. I believe I have found it in a quote attributed to Golda Meir, Israelli Prime Minister during the Yom Kippur War. She is reported to have said: "Things will not get better until they love their children more than they hate us." I would like to change the perspective of this quote and rephrase it as: "Things will not get better until we all love our children more than we hate our enemies". Read More

Ted Ankrum says "We Won", and on Extremists

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Monday July 03, 2006 · 12:45 PM PDT

2006/07/03 · 12:45

I'll be campaigning tomorrow in my Distrct which runs from the Houston suburbs to the Austin suburbs (TX 10), so I thought I'd post my Independence Day message today, the 3rd of July. When President Bush landed on that aircraft carrier deck some three years ago, to the banner "Mission Accomplished"; he was right. We had won the war in Iraq. Saddam was deposed. The Republican Guard had been defeated. The Kurds were free. We were confirming that there were no weapons of mass destruction. American troops performed superbly. Then, for some reason, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove decided that the US mission was to "Bring Democracy to the Iraqi's". Read More

Cut and Run--Bring it on!

Ted Ankrum

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Thursday June 22, 2006 · 11:57 AM PDT

2006/06/22 · 11:57

So Karl Rove celebrated his "release" from the Plame investigation by declaring that Republicans will win the mid-term elections by telling everyone that Democrats want to "Cut and Run". I'm the Democratic nominee for TX 10 and I say "Bring it on, Karl!" Read More

Energize America-A Candidate Acceptance

Ted Ankrum

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Monday June 12, 2006 · 2:03 PM PDT

2006/06/12 · 14:03

I have followed the development, on Daily Kos, of a comprehensive energy plan called Energize America--An Energy Plan for America's Future, or EA 2020, for short. I am the Democratic Candidate for TX 10, a "Delay District" runing from the Houston suburbs to the Austin suburbs, and I accept the EA 2020 Plan as my own. I have what might be the most comprehensive energy background and experience of any Congressional candidate and I think EA 2020 is a sensible and valuable path forward, which I pledge to support and try to implement, if elected. Read More

Karl Rove Shows His Genius, Again

Ted Ankrum

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Tuesday May 23, 2006 · 1:30 PM PDT

2006/05/23 · 13:30

I think Karl Rove has done it again! We were all taking comfort that there weren't any big wedge issues to mobilize the Conservative base, and now Karl has given them one: AMNESTY. And I think he has done it in a way that gets out the vote for Conservatives in the only institution held in lower regard than the President: CONGRESS. Read More

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