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Posted on 02/03/2010 7:57:42 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
The "tea party" movement is showing its strength in Texas, where activist Debra Medina is siphoning votes from two much more familiar names running for the Republican nomination for governor. The Houston Chronicle's profile of Medina is worth a read.
With less than two weeks remaining before early voting begins, Medina's campaign appears to be gathering steam; the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows her drawing 16 percent of the vote, versus 29 percent for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who's trying to make the move from Washington to Austin, and 44 percent for the sitting governor, Rick Perry.
The Medina threat is clearly making an impact on her rivals; AP quotes Hutchison alluding to the possibility of a runoff, required if no candidate gets a majority on March 2. (Hat tip to Taegan Goddard for spotting that one.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.cqpolitics.com ...
It would be exciting if Medina were to actually make it into the runoff. I hope she has a money bomb before the priamry.
RINO Freepers checking in to accuse Medina of throwing the election to the Dems in 5....4....3...2....
I’m as far from a RINO as you can get, so won’t say it - but the Dems do love it when we fall for these candidates.
Kay was a friend of mine 28 years ago when I helped her first national campaign in Dallas.
Since then she’s become very “Washington”. Perhaps she was that way before and I just didn’t see it.
I’d vote for Medina now.
Everyone who goes to DC comes home far wealthier than they were before.
Ask yourself why?
She’s smart and very impressive. She’s got my vote. I gave up voting for the”lesser evil” when I was presented with a choice between Dole and X42. I wrote in Alan Keyes.
If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you're still voting for evil.
Just a thought...
Saw they had a money bomb and I think she raised about 100k. That was Feb 2nd. Would be helpful to have another.
Knocking off KBH would be pretty funny. Course we still have to deal with K in the senate.
Medina, in a Rasmussen poll actually beats White in the GE.
What we don’t know is if she would beat the muslim billionaire if he was to beat White. LOL
How did that work out for ya?
Well if enough people fall for her she can be the candidate in November, right?
Did I hear that Pres George Bush has endorsed Medina about two weeks ago?
He's been in office for 10 years - shouldn't he have the courtesy to step down? What can he do in the next term that he hasn't accomplished before?
No.
GWB hasn’t weighed in and is unlikely too.
Cheney is backing KBH and Palin is backing Perry.
SHE IS FOR ELIMIINATION OF PROPERTY TAX AND GUN REGISTRATION
Those endorsements have me truly dizzy.
Me too, But that’s the way it is.
Who would Sam Houston vote for?
That was #41, GHW Bush that was said to be for KBH.
#43 hasn’t committed to anyone.
I disagree with the contention of the article that Medina is being backed by the Tea Party crowd. I’ve seen nothing that indicates that. Medina is being backed by the Ron Paul Libertarians, since she’s also a Libertarian.
Good question.
Perry has been a rat on taxes IMHO but he has kept the state healthy for work.
All 3 candidates support 2nd amendment rights.
Obviously your idea of exciting is totally different from mine. Medina talks a good game but we already have an orator and inexperienced President in the White House - we sure don’t need an inexperienced Governor in Texas. She needs to run for City Council, Mayor or something lower on the totem pole, let’s see how she votes and what her decision making process is and then maybe she can run for governor next time.
He’d probably vote for Susan Combs, whom I adore.
She’s like a Texan Maggie Thatcher. I’ve met her and love her.
Too bad she didn’t throw her hat in.
The fact that you are asking the questions as a non-resident of Texas is fine. Texas residents are asking the same ones with no answers. Eliminating property taxes is not doable unless we have a state income tax and raise sales taxes. Neither one of these dogs will hunt down here.
I am not familiar with her.
I hope to hear more in the future.
We need some new blood in some ways.
If that is the case, I would be very, very skeptical of her. A possible spoiler plant, or just upstart shot into the dark, and therefore easily bought after election.
And who might that be?
She certainly isn’t getting my vote. Word on the street that Ron Paul’s munchkins are pushing her. Kay Bailey should retire now and let Perry appoint a true conservative as her replacement - that would give us at least one reliable Senator. This is a huge state - keep thinking that someone will step up to the plate who is a true conservative to take on Perry but hasn’t happened yet - so Perry gets my vote. And then it’s on to take out Bill White who I am sure will have all of the DC crowd down here to help him. State is moving Democrat - lots of outsiders from other states moving here because they don’t like the political scene in their state but then they want to change us to be just like what they left. Go figure!
This is exactly what happened here in Arizona. The University also help the leftward swing along with socialist propaganda.
Pres GHWB
If Medina does not make the primary, can she possibly run against someone else, like Lloyd Dogget?
She seems to be drawing more votes from KBH.
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High praise. Do other Texas Conservatives feel the same way? If Perry wins maybe she'll run in 2014.
Most people fed up with Perry are for KBH so that makes sense.
I’ll second that...I was in contact with Medina’s campaign when they first started to gather some steam...asked why she was doing this. Bottom line it’s about her not the state. But then people are fooled are they not!
That does not make a politician...she will never be effective in office...just another wannabee loving the starlight...and said so..read her tweeters from the past months.
But I doubt you’ll do so. The fact you’re for her is evidence you haven’t looked at much. There’s a reason Palin and Chenny are not supporting her....rather other more responsible and effective candidates.
SHE IS FOR ELIMIINATION OF PROPERTY TAX AND GUN REGISTRATION
She’s gonna eliminate gun registration in Texas? Well do say...... LOL
See! Her followers are as uninformed as she is.
The most common phrase spoken to her during her nursing career was, "This thermometer tastes like $hit!"
Using your logic Bush was in office as President too long after eight years so it is a good thing that a no experience outsider having no track record replaced him? Kinda of wing and a prayer hopey changie thing?
In other words you are a Obama supporter?
Okay, now I understand.
Eaker...your right....Medina is about as qualified to be Governor as zero was to be President.....want to re-visit how that is working out!
We don't have any gun registration.
She's a moron.
GHWB is backing KBH also
I know it is sometimes difficult to assess our political candidates and with all levels of government putting us in deep doo...uh, debt, it has become extremely important to replace those in office.
I found this video of Debra Medina, challenger for Governor in the upcoming primary, in which she is very forthcoming with her plans and ideas to go another direction.
This is part 4,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRq1Wz87MFg&feature=related
and the next one, part 5 is even better as she explains with clarity and detail how eliminating property tax will explode the Texas economy. Part 3 is the beginning of her speaking to a group in East Texas and in it she explains how and why she decided to run for Gov in 2008 before the Tea Party, etc. movements.
I urge all who are making judgements about Medina’s positions listen to her explain it to a small group of supporters at a meeting in East Texas. Obviously she wants to make sure no gun registration law comes to Texans and she wants to regain Texan’s freedoms while improving the State’s economy. Her plan is to replace property tax with a consumer tax and she is relying on a study done by a respected state institution.
Please hear her explain it in her own words and then make a judgement on her and her plans for Texas. Thanks.
Yeah. Riiiight.
Dig this Medina ad:
“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)
She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”
No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.
She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.
So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.
No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.
The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties
*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
______________________ . Obama admits he's a Muslim:
Yeah. Riiiight.
Dig this Medina ad:
“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)
She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”
No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.
She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.
So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.
No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.
The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties
*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
______________________ . Obama admits he's a Muslim:
She's a Libertarian running on the Republican ticket. She is supported by the Ron Paul worship crowd and she herself has acted in the Ron Paul worship capacity.
She has demonstrated a lack of knowledge about Texas law and current ballot initiatives.
And her pandering to the Hispanics doesn't sit well with me, either.
I'm voting for Perry.
I don’t know about that.
'It’s a shame isn’t it, that Republicans continue to ignore Hispanics especially here in Texas?' Debra Medina
'Ignore them', Mrs Medina? Since when? What more do you want? Or shouldn't we ask?
Medina ad:
“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)
She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”
No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.
She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.
So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.
No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.
The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties
*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
______________________ .
Non-sequitur as the office of the President is term-limited.
In other words you are a Obama supporter?
OMG like totally freaking A yes! How'd did you find out? ROFL
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