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Posted on 01/13/2010 6:49:46 AM PST by deport
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry raised more than $7 million in the last six months and goes into the final stretch of the GOP primary for governor with $11.6 million in the bank.
The total represents an escalation in fundraising in his re-election bid against Republican challenger Kay Bailey Hutchison.
The deadline to file reports with the state for the latest fundraising period is Friday. Neither campaign has yet filed, but a person close to the Perry camp confirmed the amounts he will report.
The contest between Perry and Hutchison for the Republican nomination in the March primary is expected to cost the candidates as much as $25 million each.
So far, Perry has raised about $16 million total to try to fend off Hutchison's primary challenge.......
Although she has led Perry in early fundraising, beginning with a $6 million transfer from her Senate account, Hutchison has struggled in recent months and trails in the polls.
For example, the Texas Association of Realtors committee and beer and wine wholesaler Bg Distribution of Houston have each contributed $50,000 to Perry. Homebuilder Bob Perry (no relation) has given $25,000 through the political lobbying firm Hillco, and the Texas Restaurant Association has donated $5,000.
A Perry appointee to the agency that regulates bars and restaurants solicited political contributions from restaurateurs.
Hutchison will report receiving $50,000 in November from the Texas Farm Bureau, which opposed Perry's efforts to build toll roads. She has also received contributions from political committees for AT&T, Valero Energy and Union Pacific railroad..............
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(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Texas will not compete for coveted education money
Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce Wednesday that Texas will not compete for a highly coveted piece of the $4 billion federal education grant program known as Race to the Top, state officials say.
A major policy announcement is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at a Houston education center.
Texas could snag as much as $700 million, if it were to win one of the select few awards aimed at fostering education reform.
Many states have been going to great lengths to improve their chance at winning some of the grant money. Not Texas.
Both Perry and Education Commissioner Robert Scott have harshly criticized the program’s rules, and Scott suggested that one provision was a harbinger of a federal takeover of public schools.
Scott, reached Tuesday evening, rebuffed a question about the grant application and quickly ended the call. A Perry spokeswoman did not respond to an e-mail request for comment on the decision Tuesday.
The governor’s justification for not competing is that too little money is on the table to implement significant reform in a state with 4.7 million students, the officials said.
The decision not to apply also fits nicely into the anti-Washington narrative that has dominated Perry’s gubernatorial primary against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. It provides him another opportunity to tell the Obama administration that Texas doesn’t want its intrusion in state matters.
Only a handful of states are expected to get money in the first round, for which the applications are due Tuesday.
A year ago, Texas was quite bullish on its chances of winning one few awards.
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For any other state, they would be tremendous.
I hope he bury’s Progressive RINO Kay Bailey Hutchison whose admendment to a bill blocked building the border fence.
Huthchison & Perry are disappointing candidates for Texas.
Agreed...
..but I’ll Vote for Perry over bailout Hutchinson any day..
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Don’t like Perry but at least he hasn’t been in DC for years and years being infected with Liberaltosis.
I wish Debra Medina could get name recognition.
Did you see the media pushing the meme that Texas is not giving away enough food stamps? lol.
Its like we don’t have enough poor people or something.
My thoughts on Texas:
Hutchinson would roll Bill White. She’d probably roll Friedman too (even if I still listen to his music)
Perry could probably beat Friedman (maybe not) but I could see him having real problems with White. Of course White has a real weakness in that he brought the Katrina evacuees to Houston.
Then again we’re talking about one of the weakest governor’s mansions in the country. I’d view keeping the Texas House as the important thing because the numbers are really close and somehow a Dem is pro tem even though Republicans control the chamber.
Perry ain’t exactly conservative but he is head and shoulders over Kay
Perry will win this one by a wide margin. Why KBH even entered this race is a mystery.
A slice of poll in the governor's race |
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| 11:45 AM Tue, Jan 12, 2010 | Christy Hoppe/Reporter Christy Hoppe/Reporter"> A congressional campaign telephoned Republicans in the GOP heartland of Midland-Odessa-Llano area last week. For fun, they asked their 300 likely voters (registered and having voted in the three last GOP primaries) what they thought of the governor's race. The numbers don't bode well for Kay Bailey Hutchison. Of those sampled, 45 percent favored Rick Perry and 26 percent rang in for Hutchison. There's a large margin of error of 5.6 percent in either direction. Of course, compared to Houston or Dallas, this is not an area that produces buckets of voters, but it is a slice, a snapshot and an interesting tidbit. |
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Because like all Washington pukes she lives in a delusional world. The old women needs to stay home and look after those kids she and Ray adopted a few years ago and give the nanny's a break.
Let them stay in Haiti, better to give them food stamps there, the prices are probably lower.
Have you seen KBH’s ad railing against toll roads and the Trans Texas Corridor? LOL!
Yeah, unfortunately, that's not the likely scenario. Obama and Rahm love their crisis moments. What better way than to force massive immigration under the guise of humanitarianism, feed the federal government welfare machine and gain a huge voting block for doing it?
Miss b!tch has no chance after what she did on the healthcare bill. She’ll go down in flames.
Hey Azalea City, In that you’re from Alabama why would us Texans give a shitte what you think?
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