Forecasters say incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Perry has an 83.5 percent chance of a defeating Democratic challenger Bill White in November.
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Ads Infinitum: Perry’s “On The Trail With Bill White”
Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign hit the trail with his challenger, Bill White, and captured what it considers to be humorous moments for a new web video posted today.
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2010: Perry’s Debate Deadline
Gov. Rick Perry delivered an ultimatum to his leading challenger, Bill White: Release your tax returns by Sept. 15 or “the people of Texas will not get the opportunity to see the candidates debate.”
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Demographics
2010: Bill White’s Border Security Plan [Updated]
Gubernatorial candidate Bill White unveiled a border security plan today and chided Gov. Rick Perry over border cameras and his “unauthorized” spending of security money.
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2010: The Return of Term Limits
Taking a page out of the Kay Bailey Hutchison handbook, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White called for gubernatorial term limits today.
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Ads Infinitum: White’s “Rick Perry’s Lobbyist Ball”
The latest ad from the Bill White campaign attacks the governor’s well-placed friends.
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Demographics
The Huddled Masses
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana exiles have fundamentally changed Houston, and vice-versa. The uneasy arrangement was a shotgun marriage: Many evacuees had no choice in whether or where they went, and Houstonians had no choice, for humanity’s sake, but to take them in.
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Perry: “I’m Not an Unknown”
The governor depicted by Democrats as a coward in statewide newspaper ads last week doesn’t seem nervous. In fact, as he traveled from Killeen to Temple and on to Texarkana last week accompanied by a reporter from The Texas Tribune, Republican Rick Perry looked comfortable, though he says he’s taking his Democratic challenger, Bill White, seriously.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Hu compares and contrasts the official schedules of four big-state governors (including Rick Perry) and picks the 21 Texas House races to watch, Ramshaw on a 19-year-old with an IQ of 47 sentenced to 100 years in prison, Stiles on Perry’s regent-donors, Galbraith on a plan to curb the independence of the state’s electricity grid, Thevenot on the turf war over mental health, Grissom on whether the Texas Youth Commission should be abolished, Aguilar on a crucial immigration-related case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Ramsey’s interview with GOP provocateur Debra Medina and M. Smith on how changes to campaign finance law will affect judicial elections in Texas: The best of our best from August 23 to 27, 2010.