Those watching the Perry-Hutchison brawl for hints of the GOP’s future may be looking in the wrong place. A small race for the State Board of Education gives a glimpse into the party’s inner-turmoil.
Trouble in the big tent
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Politics
A Brief History of Fratricide
Ask a Republican who’s not on Gov. Rick Perry or Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s payroll about the 2010 governor’s primary, and you’ll get a response about a well-timed trip to Palm Springs in early March, when the two candidates square off. Party faithful want to stay above the fray: Primary challenges to longstanding incumbents tend to get rough quick.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Mentally ill student who stabbed teacher will stand trial
The Tyler Morning Telegraph is reporting that the 16-year-old Tyler special education student who fatally stabbed his teacher in September (referenced in today’s story on restraints) has been found competent to stand trial.
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Ads Infinitum: A Message to All Our Campaign Consultant Pals
This blog is designed to be a repository for your best work: the ads you create for your clients in legislative, congressional, and statewide races. We’d love it if you’d send us audio, video, campaign mailers, and the like that we can post here for the next year—and you can be sure we’ll be asking the same of your counterparts at rival campaigns.
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The Polling Center: About Democratic results
To clear up some apparent confusion: Hank Gilbert was included on the survey.
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The Brief: November 3, 2009
It’s Election Day – and it’s not too late to exceed expectations.
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The Video Brief: November 3, 2009
It’s election day and TT launch day. The video brief features a quick look at the day ahead, each weekday.
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The Polling Center: Our Inaugural Election Survey
The results of the first UT/Texas Tribune poll, which was in the field from October 20-27 and sampled 800 Texans who identified themselves as registered voters, shows Texas slowly turning their attention to the 2010 elections. Perhaps more to the point, they have become extremely skeptical about the direction of the federal government. Today we’ll focus on the election match ups and what they tell us about the state of play a little less than six months out from the March primaries.
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Bartlett: GOP is “losing a great opportunity” with Latinos
Dan Bartlett, George W. Bush’s communications director and counselor, talks with the Tribune’s Evan Smith about the GOP’s missed opportunity to reach out to Latino voters. (To listen to the full thirty-minute interview with Bartlett, see related stories.)
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Perry leads KBH by 12
In the inaugural University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, Rick Perry has the support of 42 percent of self-identified GOP gubernatorial primary voters to Kay Bailey Hutchison’s 30 percent — but Debra Medina could be a spoiler in March. On the Democratic side, Undecided and Kinky Friedman lead the pack.
