The latest ad from the Bill White campaign attacks the governor’s well-placed friends.
Griffin Perry
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State Government
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.
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The Brief: Aug. 27, 2010
Perry or no Perry, the show — Texas news outlets have decided — must go on.
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TribBlog: Chronicle Nixes Ad Calling Perry “Coward”
In 24 newspapers around the state, a full-page ad ran this week with a picture of Gov. Rick Perry and the word “coward” in large, capital letters. Back to Basics PAC, the anti-Perry group behind the ad, was hoping that number would be 25.
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The Brief: Aug. 24, 2010
It’s back to school for Texas students, and back to controversy for Texas regents.
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An Interview with Debra Medina
An Interview with former GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina
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Debra Medina: The TT Interview
The third-place finisher in this year’s GOP gubernatorial primary on whether she’ll vote for Rick Perry, how she feels about the mosque near Ground Zero and what her reaction to Glenn Beck should have been.
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Higher Education
Data App: Regents Who Give
Over the past decade, the men and women chosen by Rick Perry to serve as regents of the state’s universities have given his campaigns a total of at least $5.8 million, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.
