Probably on his speed dial.
The Houston Chronic is more liberal than even the Austin paper. (The Chronic was the paper had the "W" pigtail girl pdf file named as "brainwashed" on its website.)
Maybe because Houston has a "REAL" evacuation plan for incoming hurricanes.
I have no respect for either paper, but I almost fell off my chair when I read the following in an Austin American-Statesman editorial (September 2, 2006) about Democrats criticizing Wal-Mart:
The efforts of Democratic Senate leaders Harry Reid, Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton and others are cowardly, hypocritical, and ignorant of larger economic truths.