This week on the TribCast, Ross, Reeve, Ben and Scott consider Michael McCaul’s potential entry into the U.S. Senate race, review Rick Perry and His Eggheads and talk about how nobody’s talking about Ron Paul.
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Higher Education
Higher Ed Oversight Committee’s First Hearing Set
Since it was created in May, little has been heard from the Legislature’s Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency. But today, its first public hearing was set for Wednesday, Sept. 21.
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GOP Sources: McCaul May Get in Senate Race
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, is quietly exploring a run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican sources told The Texas Tribune on Tuesday.
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State Government
Inside or Out: Who’ll Run the Texas Senate?
The restricted club that is the Texas Senate will be invaded by noisy conservative voters and activists next year if senators have to choose a new leader from their own ranks, reprising the 2011 contretemps over the choice for Speaker of the House.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: The Ultimate Insiders’ Vote
In which we ask the insiders how the selection of a new lieutenant governor will go, if David Dewhurst moves on to another job after the 2012 elections.
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State Government
While Perry Campaigns, Who’s in Charge at Home?
Gov. Rick Perry, campaigning in Iowa again today, heads back to New Hampshire and South Carolina later this week. But while Perry’s out of state, who’s in charge in Texas? Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
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Politics
Here’s a Question: What if They All Lose?
Gov. Rick Perry is running for president. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is running for U.S. Senate. And it seems like everyone else in Texas politics is making plans based on one or both of those offices opening in 2012. What if they lose?
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Tea Partiers Hear From Senate Candidates — Except Dewhurst
Five of the declared Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison met in Waco on Saturday night for a wide-ranging forum notable for the absence of the frontrunner, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
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Health care
What They’re Saying About @teamrickperry
Gov. Rick Perry is scoring some endorsements from GOP activists and officeholders, but support for Perry among his fellow Texas Republicans isn’t unanimous. The Democrats, as you might expect, are vociferously in opposition.
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Greg Abbott and the Calm in the Middle of the Storm
The prospect of an open lieutenant governor’s seat in 2014 is attracting candidates and a lot of conversation. Almost no one is talking about who might fill an open seat for governor.
