Candidates in Down-Ballot Races Bid for Attention
Their names have appeared on statewide ballots representing major political parties over the last 16 years, but you might not know them: Marta Greytok, David Hartman, Marvin Gregory, Teresa Doggett, Pete Patterson, Joe B. Henderson, Marty Akins, Tom Ramsay, Sherry Boyles, Maria Luisa Alvarado, David Van Os, Fred Head, Valinda Hathcox, Dale Henry.
For the most part, these down-ballot candidates and others like them couldn't get voters' attention for more than a day or so. It's hard to have any influence on the outcome of an election if you can't raise money and voters don't know ...
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Rudy Gonzales
There he goes again! Perry ranting like he's ready to do something! He's been in office nine plus years drawing money and doing limited work. Perry is still running against Washington. He should be concentrating on Texas issues! Fact-checked information. He's vetoed bills that had passed both houses in Austin. Perry has told lies about Bill White, which is the typical Republican party of "NO". Perry lied - he never got a minute of President Obama's time. Barack Obama merely said hello and walked away. Perry wanted to be confrontive and was snubbed. Perry tried to force the Trans-Texas project through the Texas house and on Texans. He was shut down. Rick Perry thinks "injecting 11- and 12-year-old girls with a controversial drug (the HPV vaccine), without a parent's consent, is a good idea. " Rick Perry vetoed an ethics-related measure that would have mandated a waiting period before former Harris County employees could lobby the county or benefit from contracts they worked on as employees. Perry vetoed this session, along with measures that required motorists to give cyclists at least 3 feet of clearance when passing on most highways, that would have expanded the state’s pre-kindergarten program.Perry’s 35 vetoes represents a sharp decrease from the 56 bills he vetoed after the 2007 regular legislative session. He set a record number of vetoes for a Texas governor during his first term, when he vetoed 83 bills. He vetoed only 20 in 2005. Every time Gov. Perry tried to take credit for that, his opponents tried as hard as they could to prove otherwise. Most notably when Perry tried to tell Texans he had created jobs. "While America was losing three million jobs, Texas was gaining 100,000 jobs," said Gov. Perry. The truth is that Texas may have created the jobs Perry spoke of, but lost 300,000 others. Most of Perry's chiefs of staff have been lobbyists. Rick Perry lied when he said, "didn't pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy secretary of energy." The state budget has gone up over 80 percent under Rick Perry stewardship. Rick Perry lied when he said Bill White "profiteered in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita." Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase. Rick Perry lied by saying an estimate that Texas will face an $18 billion budget gap is “a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed."Rick Perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. Fortunately, a court stopped him. Rick Perry lied when he said, "Everyone in this country has access to health care." Rick Perry lied when he said, "My border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime." His claim omitted El Paso, Brownsville and Laredo. Bill White remarked. "There's almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and that's an all-time record number in our state." This is true! Rick Perry over-looked most the United States when he said, approximately 70 percent of jobs created in the United States in November 2007-2008 were in Texas.