Republican Gov. Rick Perry leads Democratic challenger Bill White by 5 percent in a new poll.
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Energy
TribBlog: A Vision for D.C.
Gov. Rick Perry continued to tout Texas’ superiority to the nation’s capital and the rest of the country when he spoke to the Clean Carbon Policy Summit in Austin this afternoon.
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Ads Infinitum: New Back to Basics Ad: “Face Us”
The Back to Basics PAC, which has repeatedly attacked GOP Gov. Rick Perry during the general election cycle in ads on TV and in print, has turned its sights on the incumbent’s unwillingness to debate Democrat Bill White.
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Trash Tweeting
From the governor’s race to the bubbling battle for speaker of the Texas House, political campaigns and their staffs increasingly have to fend off social media attacks by unnamed tweeters who can’t be held accountable.
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Health care
TribBlog: State Forgoes Millions in Federal Sex Ed Funds
At the end of the summer, Texas quietly opted to forgo another pot of federal money — specifically, $4.4 million that would have gone toward educating youth on abstinence and contraception to prevent teen pregnancy.
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2010: Austin American-Statesman Endorses Bill White
Calling him a “thoughtful, experienced, unifying leader,” the Austin American-Statesman this morning backed Democrat Bill White for governor over incumbent Republican Rick Perry.
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Demographics
Ads Infinitum: Rick Perry’s “Border”
Rick Perry’s campaign has released a new ad on the topic of border security that pivots off of the letter the governor hand-delivered to Barack Obama during their brief tarmac meeting in Austin.
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Higher Education
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Thevenot on the fastest-growing charter school chain in Texas, Hu on the continuing legal fights between tort reformers and trial lawyers over the state’s windstorm insurance pool, Hamilton on the push for accountability in Texas colleges, Philpott on legislative skirmishing over federal education funds, Grissom on misdemeanor convicts choosing jail time instead of probation that’s more expensive for them but cheaper for the state, M. Smith on Bill Flores’ challenge in what’s billed as the hottest congressional race in the country, Ramshaw looks at scandals that have put some otherwise safe statehouse incumbents in deep electoral trouble, yours truly on the closest and ugliest race on the statewide ballot and Galbraith and Titus on pollution from idling vehicles and why it’s so hard to control: The best of our best from September 27 to October 1, 2010.
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HuTube: Hair Today
Governor Goodhair and his opponent with less hair each produced video features explaining how they maintain their manes.
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Energy
Drilling Down
Whoever wins the governor’s race in November will face a variety of pressing questions concerning one of the state’s biggest industries: energy. Texas is a top producer of natural gas, oil and, more recently, wind power. As things stand now, the state is coping with a federal moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling, bracing for federal action on climate change and other air pollution, preparing for an influx of electric cars and debating whether to enact a mandate for renewable energy sources other than wind. How do Rick Perry and Bill White come down on the issues?
