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Posted on 01/09/2010 8:04:20 AM PST by deport
The Republican race for governor has mostly been a heavyweight showdown, with the senior U.S. senator from Texas trying to knock out the state's longest-serving governor.
But Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry aren't the only Republicans in the race. Fiery GOP activist and gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, who has strong libertarian views and does not rule out seceding from the union, could affect the contest, even if she loses, as experts anticipate......
"I feel it in my gut," said Medina, a registered nurse from Wharton, just south of Houston. "I am not quitting. I am not taking my foot off the pedal. Not one inch."
Medina has been waging a low-budget guerrilla war against Perry and Hutchison — at the last reporting in July, she hadn't broken past $50,000 in contributions — using the Internet, social media and the heady enthusiasm of her volunteers to raise her profile. The strategy paid off this week , when Medina snagged a coveted spot in the upcoming statewide televised debate in Denton on Thursday with the two GOP stars.
Though she's critical of Hutchison and Perry, Medina sees her main rival as Perry and she reserves her harshest remarks for the governor....
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(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Sen. Cornyn denies asking Hutchison to drop bid for Texas governorship
Saturday, January 9, 2010 By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN – Sen. John Cornyn denied Friday that he had asked fellow Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to drop her bid to unseat Gov. Rick Perry this year and focus on keeping her Senate seat.
"I have not," Cornyn said after giving a speech on transportation at an Austin conference. "As you know, I am not involved in that race, the race for governor. We are working very hard fighting our battles in Washington, D.C., so I am not going to comment" on the governor's race.
Cornyn leads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and a Hutchison victory against Perry could give him one more race to worry about as the GOP seeks to add seats in the Senate.
A columnist for the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that he had heard Cornyn was "trying to persuade Ms. Hutchison to drop out of the governor's race [and] run for re-election to the Senate."
Cornyn's campaign committee quickly denied Cornyn had made any such request of Hutchison, and Hutchison's office declined to comment. Friday's remarks were the first directly from Cornyn on the matter. ....
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Texas gubernatorial hopeful Farouk Shami presses on in uphill climb
12:00 AM CST on Saturday, January 9, 2010
By GROMER JEFFERS Jr. / The Dallas Morning NewsAn underdog in the race for governor, Farouk Shami will go anywhere for votes.
And judging from the dynamics of the Democratic primary, he'll have to.
He pitched his campaign to a bustling meeting Thursday of the Dallas County Democratic Party's Executive Committee. There, he accepted bottom billing amid a horde of local candidates more interested in drawing for favorable ballot positions than listening to Shami's call for support.
By the end of his rambling, forceful speech, he had veteran Democrats whooping and applauding his words, even though many later conceded they didn't believe in his candidacy.
"I'm the man that will lead the way to change," he said. "I love Democrats." .....
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a ping for your candidate............
Mine also. My family in Austin (of all places) are strong supporters.
I’m still supporting her—and I don’t believe TX will elect that very liberal dimocrat......I think that’s just baloney.
I forgot to say thanks for the ping!
You’re welcome but not necessary as I know you support her and would be interested. Stay warm/safe out your way.
What are the polls showing in the Repub primary race, I haven’t seen any? Thanks.
I haven’t seen anything new but the last were showing Perry well ahead of KBH [low teens I believe] and Medina somewhere in the mid single digits. The campaigns are polling I’m sure but nothing from others that I’ve seen.
Highway findings insult Texans
San Antonio Express
1-9-10You don't have to be a researcher to know that Texas is falling further behind the transportation infrastructure curve. All you have to do is sit behind the wheel of a vehicle on U.S. 281 near Loop 1604, which wasn't even included in a list compiled by the Texas Department of Transportation of the 100 most congested road sections in the state.
It does help clarify the issue, however, when an unbiased study highlights Texas' transportation decline relative to other states, as the Reason Foundation's 18th Annual Highway Report does. The study ranks state highway systems in 11 categories. And the news isn't good for the Lone Star State.
For 2007, the latest year for which the study is complete, Texas ranks 39th in urban interstate congestion, 31st in the condition of urban interstates and 33rd in total disbursements. A telling figure is that the overall rank for Texas has dropped from eighth in 2000 to 17th in 2007.
The report raised hackles from state Sen. John Carona, chairman of the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee and a leader of the effort to reform transportation funding in Texas.
“Texas has the 11th worst urban interstate congestion among the states,” Carona said in a press release. “That's worse than New York, worse than Massachusetts, worse than Florida, worse than Pennsylvania, even worse than Oklahoma. Oklahoma!”
There was a time when Texans could boast a state highway system — a freeway system, actually — that was the envy of motorists in other states. Now, according to the Reason Foundation, Oklahoma has surpassed us and, as Carona noted, Mississippi is closing in fast.
It shouldn't require a slight to Texas pride to get Texas lawmakers to end the legislative diversions of highway funds and adequately fund the transportation infrastructure of a growing state. But if that's what it takes, let the insults keep coming.
Social conservatives' power at issue in Texas education board races
12:16 AM CST on Saturday, January 9, 2010
By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning NewsAUSTIN – Social conservatives on the State Board of Education are facing a make-or-break juncture in this year's elections after three years of key victories in their longtime efforts to turn public schools in a vastly different direction.
Battles are shaping up for three seats held by social conservatives, both in the Republican primary and with Democrats lined up to seek a pair of those seats in the fall general election.
On the other side, a GOP candidate with social conservative leanings is seeking to knock off a longtime Republican incumbent in West Texas. That could give social conservatives a shot at their first majority on the 15-member board.
The winners will help make critical decisions on such things as the new science and history books that will be used in Texas schools in the next decade. And since Texas is one of the largest textbook purchasers in the nation, those decisions will dictate what books are marketed in other states.....
The seven Republicans who make up the conservative bloc have made their influence felt in new curriculum standards for English and science – including much debated language that requires students to examine "all sides" of scientific evidence for evolution in biology classes.
The group also has pushed through its vision for an elective Bible studies course in high school and united to reject an elementary school math textbook, used in Dallas and Highland Park, that they considered too soft.
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I’ve heard Shami’s ad, and he sounded very conservative, but with a name like Farouk Shami I figured bad news. Stands to reason he loves dimocraps.
You just have to never, ever, under any circumstance whatsoever drive on the roads in Oklahoma, Louisianna, Arkansas, Misourri, or any other surrounding state. If you do that you will be utterly unable to know that Texas is falling further behind the transportation infrastructure curve...
I agree, I’ll be voting for her. She is the best and only true conservative candidate. I’m in Austin also.
Gov. Goodhair has been around toooooo long and needs to retire.
KBH has been in Washington DC toooooo long and is now a member of the GATGA (Go Along To Get Along) Party aka RINO.
If it is only between Gov Goodhair and KBH, I’d regretfully have to go with Gov Goodhair.
But there is a real choice. IMHO Debra Medina has the issues pretty well defined and in the right place.
I hate to vote for Medina, and I also hate not to do so. What choices? I think the Democrat could beat Perry and Medina and maybe Hutchison too.
Vote who you wish. The Democrat is not going to beat any of them.
KBH is not good for Texas. Gov Goodhair bends with which ever way the wind blows and has his own agenda.
Farouk Salmi, if makes it past the primary, will garner a lot of votes just on his promise to only take $1.00 a year as his salary. I don’t believe Texas will support the Houston Mayor, can’t remember his name and is running, cause I think he is too liberal.
I think if Perry is the one he will most likely be reelected but by a slim margin.
Course seeing what America did last November, all bets are off.
Medina is our best shot at conservative leadership.
I have no problem voting for her what so ever.
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If only KBH had kept her word (yeah, whatever) that she would step down from the Senate BEFORE the governor’s election then we’d be rid of her for good. Now, she’s only splitting the vote - which might have been her RINO (aka RAT) plan all along.
No one knows anything about Medina or that she’s even running. It’s all KBH and Perry.
He's likely to go the same place as Hussein did and we don't need any more of that.
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