The Brief: Top Texas News for June 5, 2012

The Big Conversation:

Ted Cruz and David Dewhurst have agreed to debate before the July runoff, but there's an unexpected sticking point: the English language.

After Cruz challenged Dewhurst in his election night speech to five debates before the July 31 runoff, both candidates confirmed Monday that they would participate in two televised forums. 

But another proposition, apparently floated by Univision, also surfaced Monday: a debate in Spanish — a language that Dewhurst, who served as a CIA officer in South America in the 1970s, speaks fluently but that Cruz does not.

Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant, told ...

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