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Texas State Representative Terri Hodge pleads guilty to federal charge and agrees to resign from public office»

In a surprising development this week, Texas State Representative Terri Hodge entered a plea of guilty to fraud and false statements on an income tax return. She faces a maximum statutory sentence of three years in prison, a $100,000 fine, and restitution to the IRS.

As a condition of her plea with the government, Hodge, who was elected to the Texas House of Representatives, District 100, in 1996, and re-elected to the same position in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008, has agreed to resign her office and never seek or hold future public office.

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Trumpet Awards dinner an evening of elegance»

The 2010 Trumpet Awards Sponsors and Honorees dinner held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta was an evening of elegance. The Who’s Who of the African-American business, law, arts, military, entertainment and civil rights were in attendance.

The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame included previous years inductees such as Tom Joyner, Congressman John Lewis, Xernona Clayton and many more. Atlanta has a rich history for being the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the late great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for whom Mrs. Clayton worked.

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Tea Party Slams Obama Voters»

Apparently the Tea Party wants Americans to be able to read, write and prepare presidential speeches in order to vote in any upcoming elections. Tom Tancredo, former Republican Colorado Congressman feels those who voted for Obama only did because of his skin color and probably do not know how to spell the word vote or even pronouce it.

You spell vote, B-A-R-A-C-K-O-B-A-M-A. Read more…

Dallas Mayor Pro Team endorses Farouk Shami for governor»

Friday night at the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Greater Dallas 45th Annual C.A.W. Clark Human Relations Banquet Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway announced his endorsement of Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Farouk Shami.

“After hearing his message about jobs, economic development and helping the smaller people, I decided to support him,” Caraway said.

Jackson’s doctor sentencing postponed?»

Today was the day for Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s former personal doctor, to turn himself in and face the music of prescribing the late pop icon a deadly combination of drugs. Murray’s attorneys claim he does not want the embarrassment of being handcuffed in public. Didn’t you kill Michael Jackson though? Read more…