The HuTube video blog takes you behind the scenes at Friday afternoon’s Perry/White interviews.
Bill White
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Politics
Washington Weak
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.
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2010: Dallas Morning News Endorses White
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.
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Demographics
Where They Stand: The Governor’s Race
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.
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State Government
2010: Bill White Interview Highlights
Highlights from Bill White’s hourlong talk with the Tribune’s Evan Smith.
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Ads Infinitum: Bill White’s “Texas For Sale”
In his latest television ad, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White says there’s a “for sale sign in Austin.”
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2010: Kinky to Endorse Glass
Iconic Texas entertainer and perennial politician Kinky Friedman plans to endorse Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Kathie Glass.
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Ads Infinitum: DGA’s “Daughters”
The Democratic Governors Association released its second ad attacking Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday.
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2010: Beaumont, Corpus Papers Endorse White
The Beaumont Enterprise and the Corpus Christi Caller-Times today threw their support behind Bill White’s bid to unseat Gov. Rick Perry, bringing to four the number of newspapers that have endorsed the Democratic challenger over the Republican incumbent.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramsey on whether Bill White at the top of the ballot helps Houston-area candidates, Aaronson and Stiles present a treemap of Texas political ads, Stiles and Ramsey on the latest campaign finance filings, Aguilar on the Laredo mayor’s race, Hamilton on anonymous tweeters who make mischief, Ramshaw interviews a disability rights activist with a thing for iPads and bibles, Hu on the accidental release of Rick Perry’s “secret” schedule, M. Smith on the bitter back-and-forth over a voter registration effort in Harris County, Philpott’s micro-debate on education between two House candidates, Grissom on this week’s twist in the Cameron Todd Willingham investigation and, in our latest collaboration with a big-city Texas newspaper, Stiles, Grissom and John Tedesco of the San-Antonio Express News on what kind of Texans, exactly, are applying to carry concealed handguns: The best of our best from Oct. 4 to 9, 2010.