Results tagged “congresswoman”

No, not that Pelosi, but her daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, will stop through Houston tomorrow as part of theThe Texas Freedom Network 2007 Faith & Freedom Speaker Series. At Downtown's Christ Church Cathedral [1117 Texas Ave.], the producer will screen her award-winning film Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi followed by a conversation with Pelosi as she gives a firsthand account of her memorable encounters with prominent leaders of the religious right. The... more ›

Wow — it's still six months to Christmas, and yet we're getting gifts already: The AP reports that everyone's favorite golden-haired politico, Shelley Sekula Gibbs, is laying the groundwork for her campaign to return to Congress. Oh, yes. Sekula Gibbs (notice that she's dropped the hyphen, which she worried could be a problem during her write-in campaign for Congress last year) announced that she has some high-profile Republican supporters for her 2008 campaign, including homebuilder... more ›

Barbara Jordan – U.S. congresswoman, first African-American woman to serve as a Texas state senator, and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs – was a ceaseless voice for civil liberties and morality in politics. She is also one of Houston's own, born in the Fifth Ward. Today at Brazos Bookstore, Max Sherman talks about his new collection of Jordan's speeches, which also includes a DVD of her speeches Brazos Bookstore 2421 Bissonnet... more ›

If you're hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs "so are you nakie" to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor... more ›

So we were pretty excited when we noticed a KTRK report that promised an explanation from U.S. Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as to why her Washington office's staff walked out on her last week. And here's the blockbuster explanation, straight from the horse's congresswoman's mouth: more ›

Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It's getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we've seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he'd made his way around the world on the -ist tour. In Shanghai, Borat would be observing Inane Learnings of Penis Photos for Make Benefit Glorious Flat World of... more ›

Because Shelley Sekula-Gibbs is only going to be a congresswoman for a few weeks, we suppose she feels the need to make the news as often as possible: Earlier this week, Tom DeLay's staffers walked out on Sekula-Gibbs, and now Shelley is accusing those staffers of inappropriately wiping all the office computers clean before they left. We smell a developing Capitol Hill smackdown — no, not the one between Shelley's people and DeLay's people; we're... more ›

yesterday, apparently after finding the golden-haired Sekula-Gibbs a little hard to work with. more ›

When Houstonist missed Dave Chappelle's Block Party Tour last week at the Verizon, we had no idea we were actually missing one of the year's most inexplicable two-fer events. Yes, everyone's favorite congresswoman joined the comedian on stage for no apparent reason — we don't even know if there were any TV cameras around. The news comes to us from the Houston Press, which tells the story better than we could: Just before intermission, Chappelle... more ›

Houstonist knew it would happen. The pull of all those television cameras and reporters in one place was just too strong. That's right: U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee stopped by the Enron trial this morning. more ›

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