Credit: Bob Daemmrich
Will Hailer, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, responded to a briefing Gov. Rick Perry‘s legal team held on Monday by calling Perry a “bully, who broke the rules.”

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by Alana Rocha and Todd Wiseman, The Texas Tribune
August 18, 2014

Credit: Bob Daemmrich
Will Hailer, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, responded to a briefing Gov. Rick Perry‘s legal team held on Monday by calling Perry a “bully, who broke the rules.”
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