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Just in case anyone still thinks Chris Bell has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning:

Republican incumbent Rick Perry has 100 times more money on hand for the governor’s race than his richest Democratic opponent, new campaign finances reports show.

With the Republican and Democrat primaries just two weeks away, Perry has $9.4 million in cash, while Democrat Chris Bell has $90,868.90 and Democrat Bob Gammage $23,648, according to campaign finance reports due Monday. The most recent disclosures list cash on hand, as well as contributions and expenditures between Jan. 27 and Saturday.

That’s the balance sheet. Let’s see how the income statement looks:

Perry’s report shows that his campaign raised $923,369 in the past 30 days and spent $407,579. By contrast, Bell raised $259,569 and spent $305,672, and Gammage raised $58,209 and spent $70,996.

Wow. Perry can significantly outspend Bell and still sock away 500 large in a month. Meanwhile, Bell’s boys might be able to afford pizza on election night. I have no idea why people think this guy is a legitimate gubernatorial candidate.

[Hat-tip: Perry vs. World]

Matt Bramanti | February 28, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Posted to Texas, Politics

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I installed the WP-Email plugin this morning, which puts a handy-dandy “Email” link at the bottom of each post, allowing you to send my posts the the few poor souls who might not have seen them. A couple test runs show that it works just fine.

Here’s the problem, though: When you click on it, you’re treated to a very, VERY ugly rendition of the post. I’ve tried to dig through the template to find out why it comes out so damn ugly, and I can’t make heads or tails of it. I’d appreciate it if someone with experience in PHP and CSS could help me figure this out.

UPDATE (3:00 p.m.): Thanks to niziol in the WordPress support forums for helping me out. Works like a charm now.

Matt Bramanti | February 28, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Posted to Tech, Blogging

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I’m back from Mardi Gras, and boy are my arms tired. So are my legs, head, stomach and liver. Photos, stories and analysis to come tomorrow.

Matt Bramanti | February 27, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Posted to Out and About, Reviews, Food & Drink

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Off to Mardi Gras. Back on Monday!

Matt Bramanti | February 25, 2006 at 10:43 am
Posted to Out and About

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I weighed myself tonight, and I am officially under 200 pounds for the first time since high school. 72.6 pounds gone forever.

Now I’m off to New Orleans, where I will drink and eat rich food. But it’ll all balance out, because I’ll likely be dodging bullets and hapless FEMA personnel the whole time.

Matt Bramanti | February 25, 2006 at 12:48 am
Posted to Personal

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At the Mattsapundit Research & Development Directorate, scores of underpaid Indian engineers have been coding day at night, and they’ve come up with a few technical improvements around here.

• The “What I’m Reading” and “What I’m Watching” features in the sidebar allow you, the enraptured reader, to learn and emulate my preferences in literature and film. Click on the book or movie title to be taken to Amazon.com, where you can buy the item, thereby funneling money into the Mattsapundit Beer Acquisition Fund.
• The “Print” link now at the bottom of each post brings up a clean, printer-friendly copy of that post, perfect for Xeroxing 500 times and stapling to telephone poles all over town.
• The new categorized blogroll lists my favorite spots from all around the blogosphere.
• I’ve also installed plugins under the hood to allow me to manually order links/categories, generate Google Sitemaps, backup the database, mass edit comments, weed out spamming scumbags and other cool things that you don’t get to see.

Coming upgrades include:

• An “email this post” link after every post.
• A better title image.
• A slick image uploading/resizing/posting mechanism.

Stay tuned, folks…

Matt Bramanti | February 22, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Posted to Tech, Blogging

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