It’s a Bill White-Tom Schieffer-Kinky Friedman-Farouk Shami-Rick Perry mashup to get you caught up on Monday’s developments, if you missed them.
HuTube: Monday’s Developments in 60 Seconds
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Give or Take a Million
If we didn’t think campaign finance law was confusing before this morning, well, we do now.
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The Brief: November 24, 2009
Is “eye-gougingly boring” the new “gubernatorial”?
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Demographics
Upwardly Mobile
The number of Mexican-born professionals living in the United States has more than doubled since 1995. They’re not the undocumented workers you see in evening-news mug shots or aerial photographs of a littered and barren desert. They’re college graduates — some with multiple degrees — who join their blue-collar counterparts in their journeys north.
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Public Education
Soul Search: Race, religion and education in West Dallas
Rev. Rayford Butler watched as the churches of West Dallas slipped into irrelevance and the surrounding community suffered. The hard truth: neighborhood pastors failed to work together, selfishly competing with one another.
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State Government
The $4.2 Million Question
How much of Bill White’s federal war chest could be used in a race for governor? Most of it.
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On the Records: Shami vs. Himself
Farouk Shami donated $4,800 to Bill White’s senate campaign. Now the money could be used against him in the govenor’s race.
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Schieffer Calls it Quits
There’s been a major shake-up in the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Tom Schieffer has dropped out of the race, and he and several other Democrats hope Houston Mayor Bill White will jump in. For the first time, White says he’s considering it.
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Economy
Texas Weekly: Simple Math, Complex Problem
Balancing the next state budget may be more a political exercise than a technical one.
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Down in West Dallas
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