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"This funding bill, which was endorsed by business, medical associations, and even legal organizations, will be Perry's ticket to another term in Austin."

I am not so sure about that.

Are you aware of the results of a recent meeting of the approximately 450 Republican precinct chairpersons in Harris County? In that recent meeting they unanimously passed a resolution urging Gov. Perry to reject HB3.

It is very difficult for a Republican candidate running for a statewide office to win without carrying Harris County (the largest county in Texas). Gov. Perry is not a hero among the conservative base in Harris and surrounding counties. Don't underestimate their desire to express their disappointment in November.

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Gov. Perry is not a hero among the conservative base in Harris and surrounding counties. Don't underestimate their desire to express their disappointment in November.

Yeah, yeah. I read about Dan Patrick and his "revolt." Except he has no solution of his own, does he? He just doesn't like what Perry, John Sharp, and the GOP legislature came up with.

They'll vote for Perry, unless they want a very liberal Democrat (Ma Strayhorn) or a candidate who will make Texas a laughingstock (Friedman).

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Harris County is only the first County Party to pass resolutions regarding this new tax legislation. There will be more, because grassroots Republicans know that the Republican voting base is not buying Gov. Perry's razzle dazzle bait and switch taxation. They are the ones that will have the much tougher job of turning out the vote in November, thanks to out of touch Republican officeholders in Austin and in Washington.

It isn't the voters that might stay at home in November that Gov. Perry (and other Republican candidates) should be worried about, it is the grassroots volunteers that will stay home during the campaign, that they should be worried about. Nobody wants to do the grueling job of door-to-door block-walking or phone bank calling, if you don't believe in the candidates yourself.

Mass media campaigning is not nearly as effective (or efficient) as motivated volunteers.