The Polling Center: First Take on the February 2010 Results | 2/12/10
The University of Texas / Texas Tribune poll, conducted from February 1-7, shows Gov. Rick Perry holding a 24-point lead over U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican gubernatorial primary contest, with Debra Medina posing a surprisingly strong challenge to Hutchison for second place. Perry garnered 45% of the vote, Hutchison 21%, Debra Medina 19%, with 16% undecided. The sample of 366 Republican primary voters has a margin of error of +/- 5.12 percentage points.
In the Democratic primary, former Houston Mayor Bill White has a 48%-14% advantage over businessman Farouk Shami. Thirty-eight percent of the Democratic sampled ...
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texasyesfan wrote on 11/19/2009 9:04 a.m.
“I don’t know why the state of Texas is permitting this to happen,”
Really? Really? The scary part is most folks still think that the State is looking out for their interest. Sad. Sad. Sad.
David wrote on 11/19/2009 9:43 a.m.
Until Texas speaks with a loud enough voice to drown out the campaign contributions from payday lenders, any regulation - even data collection - will continue to be stymied session after session. This article is an excellent step in the right direction. Great work.
mikedudical wrote on 11/19/2009 11:10 a.m.
The Cash Stores are sharks. It's bad enough that Banks and Credit Unions have repossessed a healthy chunk of America's cars (see http://www.repofinder.com) . Now we have Cash Stored doing it.
RxforTexas wrote on 11/19/2009 9:41 p.m.
Why have the legislators turned a blind eye against this growing problem? They are not standing up for Texans against these unfair practices. Another example of highway robbery, and we know the thugs involved, but our government continues to facilitate them. Gov. Perry are you listening?
hoola wrote on 12/1/2009 9:20 a.m.
Whatever the case may be, what is clear is that Texans sometimes need access to short term loans. There are some businesses that follow more consumer friendly guidelines than those mentioned in this story. Check out www.cfsa.org which requires its payday lender membership to operate under a set of best practices. Balanced regulation is needed in TX.