Daily Archives: 01/18/2012

(Community Matters)

Happy 19th Birthday, Ben

our godson is a freshman at TCU and loving it

(Community Matters) Helping kickoff Austin Gives this morning

(Community Matters) Our dear friend Suzanne Tick’s work showing (earlier posting)

(Community Matters) started out as cocktails for two neighbors and their house guest – expanded as I ran into friends or exchanged emails. Invites weren’t deliberate but coincidental – guess that just works sometimes.

Fun evening Monday night with Bob Atchison & Rob Moshein, Albert Bartridge, Graham Schmidt, Tana & Joe Christie, Kip Keller & Michael Barnes, Chris Long, Michael Mitchell, Beth Broderick, Dennis Bailey, Marc Winkelman, Amy & Kirk Rudy, Karl Scholz, Eric Copper, Milinda Mitchell, Graham Reynolds and Chase Pilat.

(Community Matters)  FIRST LOOK – GQ’s “The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington (People with the last names Obama and Biden not included,” by Reid Cherlin, Rob Fischer, Jason Horowitz and Jason Zengerle: 1) Eric Cantor 2) Mitch McConnell 3) David Plouffe 4) Leon Panetta 5) Hillary Clinton 6) Ben Bernanke 7) David Petraeus 8) Kevin McCarthy 9) Pete Rouse 10) U.S. Chamber’s Tom Donohue 11) Tim Geithner 12) John Boehner 13) Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, Steven Law (American Crossroads) 14) Tommy Boggs, chairman, Patton Boggs 15) Dan Pfeiffer 16) Gene Sperling and Jack Lew 17) Chuck Schumer 18) Grover Norquist 19) Chuck Todd 20) Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser and speechwriter, and brother David Rhodes, president of CBS News 21) Paul Ryan 22) Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough 23) Heather and Tony Podesta 24) Chris Van Hollen 25) Paul Clement, partner, Bancroft

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