2006 Post Election Analysis using computer mapping will be on Nov. 16 at 5pm.   The admission fee is $10. but includes free parking, access to the gorgeous new Federal Reserve Bank on Allen Parkway (and its art collection), and a full buffet meal (including tea and dessert)–so it is totally worth it–plus the presentations!!  HOWEVER, rsvp is mandatory for admission to the Fed Reserve (designed by Michael Graves).

Advance registration is required to enter the facility.  Security officers will not grant access to anyone who is not pre-registered. RSVP to teda@houston.org.

Free parking is accessed via Gillette St. on the east side of the building. For a map: www.dallasfed.org/fed/direct_hou.pdf

Only the most jaded observer could resist the combination of Dick Murray and Max Beauregard dis­secting the dynamics of an election and spelling out what the results tell us about the future of local, state, and national politics. Beauregard will spend half an hour showing us how who voted locally, using slides to display small area patterns. Murray, an election night analyst familiar to generations of Houston TV viewers as an expert commentator who always knows what’s going on and why, will spend an hour rang­ing through key elections in Houston and across the country.

Local elections include Wong vs. Cohen, the most expen­sive Texas House race, and Vo vs. Heflin, a re­match of the ’04 contest that Vo won by 16 votes. Texas has a four-way gubernatorial con­test in which the most votes—not necessarily a majority—win. Nationally, Democrats need to pick up just 15 seats to capture control of the House and six to command the Senate, where three states now look like tossups. Who could resist the opportunity to hear these two renowned experts comment on how things turn out?

Networking with complimentary hors d’oeuvres at 5 p.m.; meeting 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Free for TEDA members; $10 per person for guests.      Call Edith Chambers at 713-844-3618      www.TEDA.org

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