The latest Griffin Perry news from The Texas Tribune.
Two weeks before the gubernatorial election, the season premiere of Frontline features a timely topic: the Cameron Todd Willingham case. All PBS stations in Texas will air it, despite initial hesitation over running the episode — portions of which question the actions of Gov. Rick Perry — so close to Election Day. Full Story
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Mailboxes and the airwaves will be flooded with political ads over the last two weeks of the general election, and much of that final push will be focused on likely voters. As Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, most young people just don't fall into that category. Full Story
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Make that two newspaper endorsements for Rick Perry in his quest to win a third full term as governor — although the second one, unlike the first, is the dictionary definition of "ambivalent." Full Story
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After failing to secure the Democratic nomination for governor, hair care magnate Farouk Shami will be voting for the gubernatorial candidate with the best mane: Republican Gov. Rick Perry. Full Story
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On Friday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White sat down with me for an interview co-presented by the Tribune and Austin's public broadcasting stations, KUT and KLRU. We talked about whether the big bucks he's raised from appointees qualifies as "government for sale," how he'd cut the shortfall, how he feels about Barack Obama, the health care reform he'd prefer, those lawsuits against the feds and more. Full Story
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On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry sat down with me for an interview co-presented by the Tribune and Austin's public broadcasting stations, KUT and KLRU. We talked about the controversy over the Emerging Technology Fund, the calendar he makes public and the one he doesn't, how he'd cut the shortfall, which federal stimulus money he likes, whether Texas is a sanctuary state, the limits of abstinence education and more. Full Story
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The Waco Tribune-Herald endorsed Gov. Rick Perry in his bid for reelection today — the only paper in Texas thus far to do so. Full Story
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The HuTube video blog takes you behind the scenes at Friday afternoon's Perry/White interviews. Full Story
The battle in the 2010 governor's race is about the battleground itself: Rick Perry wants to bind himself to voters in opposition to an intrusive and profligate Washington D.C. — meddling liberal Yankees, in other words. Bill White wants to motivate voters in opposition to what he portrays as the sorry condition of the state under Perry, the self-serving "career politician." For White, Washington is Perry's bogeyman to divert attention from his failures at home. For Perry, Washington is the root of the evils the state confronts — foremost, issues he says White ignores. Full Story
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Joining the big-city papers in Austin, Dallas and Houston, the San Antonio Express-News has endorsed San Antonio native Bill White, the Democrat who served three terms as mayor of Houston, over Republican incumbent Rick Perry in the race for Texas governor. Full Story
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Breaking with its recent tradition of supporting Republican candidates for governor, The Dallas Morning News has endorsed Democrat Bill White in his effort to deny Rick Perry a third full term in office. Full Story
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In the absence of a real debate between Gov. Rick Perry and his Democratic challenger, Bill White, Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune has created the next best thing: a mash-up of their answers to questions asked Friday by the Tribune's Evan Smith during one-hour interviews of the candidates sponsored by the Trib, KUT and Austin public television station KLRU. Full Story
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On a day it was plagued by hackers, Back to Basics PAC still managed to release a new television ad. Full Story
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Anti-Rick Perry websites run by the Back to Basics PAC are crashing all around them this morning. The group blames hackers for the server meltdowns. Full Story
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In his latest television ad, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White says there's a "for sale sign in Austin." Full Story
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In this week's TribCast, Evan, Ross, Elise and Ben explore why polling matters, whether endorsements can sway voters and the effort to move up the Texas primary date in 2012. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry has released a new television ad, "Right Track," that argues Texas is, well, on the right track. Full Story
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Iconic Texas entertainer and perennial politician Kinky Friedman plans to endorse Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Kathie Glass. Full Story
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The Democratic Governors Association released its second ad attacking Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday. Full Story
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Back to Basics PAC, the Gov. Rick Perry-attacking political action committee funded by Houston trial lawyer Steve Mostyn, released a television ad alleging that "Rick Perry thinks you're a sucker." Full Story
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