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No, Republican Rep. Warren Chisum is the head of the Texas House Appropriations Committee which is responsible for all state funding.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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He had learned the trick of hiring brains from his father and from John Chisum of the Jingle-bob.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Such horrifying sentiments surely must send shivers down the spines of Rick Perry and Warren Chisum.
James Moore: Rick Perry Is so Not Gay - Excerpted From Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush James Moore 2011
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"You can't have it both ways, and I know that's what they're trying to do," Chisum told the Texas Tribune.
James Moore: Rick Perry Is so Not Gay - Excerpted From Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush James Moore 2011
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And that probably disgusts Rick Perry and Warren Chisum, the West Texas lawmaker who wants to wipe out even the idea of gay marriage.
James Moore: Rick Perry Is so Not Gay - Excerpted From Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush James Moore 2011
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And in the talk by the camp-fire and chuck wagon, among forty-dollar-a-month cowboys who had not foreseen what John Chisum foresaw,
CHAPTER V 2010
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There was John Chisum, owner of the Jingle-bob, the Bosque
CHAPTER V 2010
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John Chisum was a cattle king who had foreseen the coming of the farmer and adjusted from the open range to barbed wire, and who, in order to do so, had purchased every forty acres carrying water and got for nothing the use of the millions of acres of adjacent range that was worthless without the water he controlled.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Young Dick learned precisely why and how John Chisum had become a cattle king while a thousand of his contemporaries worked for him on wages.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Ultimately, Perry and Chisum discovered their belief that god doesn't make mistakes, and that a person's gender is an immutable act of nature at the time of birth, made it possible for a transgender female to marry her lesbian lover and get VA health care to live happily ever after under the Lone Star skies.
James Moore: Rick Perry Is so Not Gay - Excerpted From Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush James Moore 2011
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