Kramer, Davidson, Hope, and NowlinTexas Sierra Club director Ken Kramer, who's pushing lawmakers to tighten a particular set of water-saving laws, quoted by the Associated Press: "It may be hard for legislators dealing with school finance and health care to think about toilet performance issues. It's actually a critical piece of legislation." District Judge Mark Davidson, telling the Houston Chronicle that, at $128,000 a year, judges don't make enough: "It sounds like a lot of money, and it is. But any of us can resign the bench and instantly double our income." Rep. Ruben Hope, R-Conroe, asked if he's interested in running for the Texas Senate if Sen. Todd Staples, R-Palestine, decides to run for Texas Agriculture Commissioner: "Why would I want to trade one $600-a-month job representing one-third of one county for another $600-a-month job representing 17 counties, when I would have to raise $300,000 to $400,000 to get there?" U.S. District Judge James Nowlin of Austin, ruling in favor of abortion foes who protested against a clinic near a school in Waco, quoted in the Waco Tribune-Herald: "So it appears that the good people of Waco really are just trying to protect themselves and their children after all. And the First Amendment looks no worse for wear to boot. As for the plaintiffs, well, there is a great big world out there filled with scores of non-school zone abortion clinics. If that doesn't have all the makings for a fine family summer vacation, well then..."