A televised debate offered voters a chance to see and hear from Libertarian Kathie Glass and Green Deb Shafto, gubernatorial candidates who are usually overshadowed by Rick Perry and Bill White.
Make that two newspaper endorsements for Rick Perry in his quest to win a third full term as governor — although the second one, unlike the first, is the dictionary definition of "ambivalent."
After failing to secure the Democratic nomination for governor, hair care magnate Farouk Shami will be voting for the gubernatorial candidate with the best mane: Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
A Houston-based group sent mailers into at least two House races, but instead of using its political action committee to pay for the mailings, it used a 501(c)4.
The Waco Tribune-Herald endorsed Gov. Rick Perry in his bid for reelection today — the only paper in Texas thus far to do so.
Joining the big-city papers in Austin, Dallas and Houston, the San Antonio Express-News has endorsed San Antonio native Bill White, the Democrat who served three terms as mayor of Houston, over Republican incumbent Rick Perry in the race for Texas governor.
Breaking with its recent tradition of supporting Republican candidates for governor, The Dallas Morning News has endorsed Democrat Bill White in his effort to deny Rick Perry a third full term in office.
Former El Paso Republican state Rep. Pat Haggerty's mom is apparently not one to forgive and forget.
Watch highlights from Gov. Rick Perry's interview with Evan Smith on Friday. In the clips, Perry discusses whether Texas is a sanctuary state, and the effectiveness of abstinence education.
Highlights from Bill White's hourlong talk with the Tribune's Evan Smith.
Anti-Rick Perry websites run by the Back to Basics PAC are crashing all around them this morning. The group blames hackers for the server meltdowns.
Iconic Texas entertainer and perennial politician Kinky Friedman plans to endorse Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Kathie Glass.
The Beaumont Enterprise and the Corpus Christi Caller-Times today threw their support behind Bill White's bid to unseat Gov. Rick Perry, bringing to four the number of newspapers that have endorsed the Democratic challenger over the Republican incumbent.
Texans weren't supposed to see Gov. Rick Perry's Sept. 15 schedule after all. The governor's office says it mistakenly released the governor's "political schedule" — as opposed to his schedule of official state business — to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White's campaign.
Rick Perry leads Bill White by 11 percentage points in the governor's race, according to the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports.
