The Cook Political Report isn’t the only place that sees some chinks in Rick Perry’s armor.
2010: More of DC Rates Perry as Vulnerable
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The Brief: March 8, 2010
Counting, apparently, is not quite as easy as it seemed in school. With the primaries over, cities and counties are turning their attention to the upcoming U.S. Census.
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General Dynamics
In the run-up to last Tuesday’s primary, gubernatorial candidates of both parties courted activists by talking about topics that were near and dear to their hearts. For the general election campaign, as they compete for the votes of a broader electorate, Rick Perry and Bill White will likely shift the substance and tone of their stump speeches. Ben Philpott, covering the governor’s race for KUT News and the Tribune, filed this report.
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State Government
Potties, Pickups and Preparedness
Local governments, Native American tribes and nonprofit groups in Texas hauled in more than $298 million in federal homeland security grants from 2003 through 2008 and made more than 30,000 purchases, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of a Texas Department of Public Safety database. Much of the money has gone to improve local emergency response and to beef up police and fire departments — critical safety measures that taxpayers might not have been able to afford without assistance from Washington. But it’s unclear how some of the expenditures have made the state, or the nation, more resistant to terror attacks.
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Economy
George W. Bush Was No Ronald Reagan
When the George W. Bush administration turned out to be a failure, “conservatism” got the blame — even though Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney (like so many others who served alongside them) had been part of the anti-Reagan wing of the Republican Party.
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Higher Education
A Whole New Ball Game
The University of Texas at San Antonio hopes the fastest route to tier-one status is straight down the middle of the football field.
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Sorting It All Out
The governor’s race is just what you expected: Republican Rick Perry and Democrat Bill White. Perry starts with the power of incumbency and the state’s 16-year-old preference for Republicans over Democrats in statewide office. White starts with the advantage of non-incumbency — don’t snort at that — and the ability to run a more serious and well-financed campaign than anyone in his party has run in some time. Five independents have signed up, and the Libertarians will choose their candidate in June.
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2010: On Twitter, Bill White Created NASA
The Democratic gubernatorial candidate also “kicks it” with Chamillionaire and does trigonometry — “IN SPANISH.” If only his smile could bring “a puppy back to life.”
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Our obsessive-compulsive election day and next day coverage: frenetically updated county-by-county maps and up-to-the-minute returns in every race on the ballot, Hu’s awesome crowdsourced liveblog, Ramshaw on the twenty surprise outcomes, Aguilar on recount possibilities and dead incumbents, M. Smith on how judicial races turned out, Rapoport on changes at the SBOE and who was elected before the first vote was cast, Thevenot on whether the GOP has a problem with Hispanics, Hamilton on how the Tea Party fared, Grissom and Ramshaw on the legislative and congressional mop-up, Ramsey on what happens now, Stiles on how much candidates spent per vote; and my post-primary debrief with Rick Perry’s pollster and George W. Bush’s former strategist. The best of our best from March 1 to 5, 2010.
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State Government
TribBlog: Relieving Driver Debt
Today, the Texas Department of Public Safety released it’s proposed new rules that would make it easier for poor Texans with traffic tickets to get right with the law.
