Perry Up by 9 in New UT/TT Poll | 5/23/10
Republican Rick Perry leads Democrat Bill White by 9 percentage points — 44 percent to 35 percent — in the 2010 race for governor, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
Those numbers are identical to the results of a "fantasy race" between White and Perry in the February UT/Tribune poll, which was taken before Democratic and Republican primary voters selected the two men as their nominees. This time, 15 percent said they don't know yet whom they'll vote for, and 7 percent said they'd prefer "someone else." That last finding could be consequential: Libertarians ...
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Gritsforbreakfast
Quite a result from their "zero tolerance" policy, huh?
A really interesting aspect of the report not highlighted in the story was the gender makeup of staff engaged in sex acts with incarcerated youth: "Approximately 95% of all youth reporting staff sexual misconduct said they had been victimized by female staff. In 2008, 42% of staff in state juvenile facilities were female."
Dixie
95% of the victims were victimized by 42% of the staff? Those female staff have really been busy, haven't they?
I don't think so. The witch hunt continues, and based on anonymous answers given by adjudicated youth to a computer. What a waste of time and money.