(Carole Keeton McClellen Rylander Your Ad Here) Strayhorn announces candidacy for (TX) governor

Houston Chronicle ^ | 6/18/05 | R.G. RATCLIFFE

[Diddle E. Squat]

Former Democrat mayor of Austin, abrasive, opportunist RINO, starts off her campaign by promising gov't handouts. Finger to the wind politician who specializes in criticizing the GOP to gain media attention, aka Carole Keeton McClellen Rylander Strayhorn Chafee Hagel DeWine McCain....

Can't wait to vote against her in the primary.

[Jarhead1957]

Three choices this year in Texas:

Big Mouth

Spineless Jellyfish

Kinky Friedman

[DrewsDad]

Mr. Perry would more easily handle a challenge from Republican Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, defeating her 68 percent to 17 percent in a hypothetical election matchup, according to the poll.

This was from a 12/03 thread.

CK Whatever isn't going to win too much GOP support attacking the redistricting sessions. Someone should ask her if she would have backed down to the runaway democrat tactics.

[sinclair]

Wish I could move back to Texas just for a chance to vote for someone named "Kinky". 

just kidding

[ArmyBratproud]

She's gonna get smoked. The only folks that will vote for here are closet dems and people who are so stupid that they would vote for that idiot Kinky.

[ArmyBratproud]

Rylander can't gripe about the budget. Her key job is to help address those issues. Including School Finance.

It was up to her office to help come up with plans. She didn't have any. All she would do was be critical of every plan....so she could get media attention and run for gov.

HOW LONG DOES THAT DUMPY WENCH THINK SHE CAN KEEP PUSHING THAT "TOUGH TALKIN' GRANDMA" LINE????????

That is all Rylander is.....talk. Perry got us a start to tort reform (worked his tail off for it)......made Texas #1 on business lists. And has cut wastefull agencies.

Rylander will only get the vote of ambulance chasers.

[ArmyBratproud]

Let's see....

Long Time Democrap

Current RINO

Does more to help Dems.

Daughter of a dean of ambulance chasers.

Spoke against tort reform.

AND IT SEEMS NOBODY CAN STAND TO BE MARRIED TO HER!

I'd say she is just running to help democraps.

She knows she won't win the primary.....she just wants to help waste funds......and give her true partners...DEMOCRAPS...a helping boost.

[deport]

From the American Statesman... It may turn into an interesting primary.

As expected, Strayhorn announces for governor

Comptroller vows to topple 'do nothin' drugstore cowboy'

By W. Gardner Selby
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, June 18, 2005

Carole Keeton Strayhorn withstood mid-day heat today to declare her candidacy for governor, promising a white-hot campaign against Gov. Rick Perry leading to the March 7 Republican primary.

With the north entrance of the Capitol as a backdrop, Strayhorn spoke from a platform placed on Congress Avenue, saying: "Now is the time to replace this do nothin' drugstore cowboy with one tough grandma.

Harry Cabluck/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn announces that she will seek the Republican nomination for Texas governor during a political rally outside the Capitol on Saturday.

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"Rick Perry has promised any challenger in his own words, and I quote, 'A bloody brutal campaign.' If that is the campaign he promises to wage, bring it on."

The second-term state comptroller, joined by her husband, Eddie, and family members, confirmed expectations with her declaration in front of some 500 cheering supporters. It came 18 hours after U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison released a statement revealing her intentions to seek re-election to the Senate rather than attempt a run for governor.

Strayhorn, 65, used her early political career in Austin — she was mayor and school board president — to climb to statewide office. Her political career has dipped and turned since she left the Texas Democratic Party to become a Republican in time to lose a U.S. House bid to Rep. J.J. "Jake" Pickle of Austin in 1986. The crowd observed a moment of silence as Pickle's death earlier today was announced.

Strayhorn subsequently lost to Barry Williamson, then of Dallas, in the 1992 GOP primary for the Texas Railroad Commission.

But the one-time schoolteacher whose father, Page Keeton, was the celebrated dean of the University of Texas School of Law, bounced back.

In 1998, the year Republicans took hold of all 29 statewide elected positions, Strayhorn narrowly bested Democratic nominee Paul Hobby of Houston to become comptroller. In her re-election bid four years later, she out-drew every other statewide candidate, winning 2.9 million votes to swamp Democratic challenger Marty Akins of Marble Falls.

If elected, Strayhorn would become the third woman to become governor. Miriam "Ma" Ferguson won two-year terms in 1924 and 1932, and Ann Richards, the former Travis County commissioner and state treasurer, served one term before losing re-election to George W. Bush in 1994.

Strayhorn will be trying to deny Perry a record 10 years as governor.

Perry had scheduled a press conference shortly before Strayhorn's, where he announced he was vetoing the public school finance budget and calling the Legislature back for a special session to address the issue. Asked about Strayhorn before her announcement, Perry said, "politics is just white noise in the background" of his call for a special session.

[Jedidah]

It is tempting, isn't it? ;-D

[COEXERJ145]

Perry might isn't perfect but he isn't a "spineless jellyfish" either. Tort reform and congressional redistricting are just two issues that come to mind where he stood up to the Dems and forced the issue to a good conclusion.

[Liberty Valance]

Carole Keeton Landrover

Governor "good hair" Perry

Richard "Kinky" Friedman

hmmmmmmm

[Dog Gone]

I will do everything I can to make sure this grandma goes home.

[MeekOneGOP]

Take a hike, Stray-Beech!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Strayhorn announces candidacy for Governor (TX)

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[deport]

I will do everything I can to make sure this grandma goes home.

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I assume she want have far to travel as my guess is she lives in the Austin area....

I can't see her defeating Perry especially now that he has vetoed the School funding and called the legislature back into session to do something about it. Not much more he can do about it other than use the bully pulpit to publicize the legislature's actions or lack thereof.

[SwatTeam]

I will do everything I can to make sure this grandma goes home.

Me too

[TADSLOS]

Warmed up Ann Richards leftovers

[Flyer]

Sigh. . . everyone forgets about John Worldpeace.

http://www.johnworldpeaceforgovernoroftexas.com/


But maybe it's on purpose.

[bayourod]

Does anyone know her spokesman Mark Sanders? Was he on the SREC in the 1980s?

[deport]

Not a lot of help but from Strayhorn's web site release when she hired him.....

Sanders began his career with the Houston Post. He has worked for the Republican Party of Texas, Kent Hance, President George H. W. Bush, Rob Mosbacher, Jr., the 1996 GOP National Convention, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, three years as Special Assistant for Communications for Comptroller Strayhorn, and gubernatorial nominee Tony Sanchez.