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Thursday, March 18, 2010

A Candidate to Dye For

by Ross Ramsey
November 17, 2009  |  1

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Farouk Shami, a hair stylist turned hair and skin products entrepreneur, will announce his bid for governor this week at his company headquarters in Houston.

Shami, running as a Democrat, has lined up an experienced gang to run his campaign: campaign manager Joel Coon, general consultants Robert Jara and Dan McClung, pollster Ben Tulchin, and media specialist Tad Devine.

Coon has worked on several campaigns, helping Democrat Travis Childers win a Republican congressional seat in Mississippi in 2008. Jara and McClung are old hands at Texas and especially Houston races. Tulchin is a California-based pollster who works on races around ...

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  • PJ wrote on 11/25/2009 12:39 a.m.

    Lost me at Ted Poe.