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Griffin Perry
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The Brief: July 8, 2010
Tensions cooled a bit Wednesday in the summer’s juiciest on-again off-again political fling.
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Ads Infinitum: Perry on White’s “Friends”
Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign is showing its nostalgic side in its latest web video, which evokes the opening credits of the hit NBC show Friends.
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The Brief: July 7, 2010
Add another layer to the tale of the unlikely reanimation of the Green Party of Texas.
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HuTube: White Takes the Perry Challenge
The Bill White campaign took seriously Gov. Rick Perry’s challenge last week to find “anybody who can outwork” him.
Posted inState Government
The Brief: July 6, 2010
Two was company in the first general-election debate of the governor’s race.
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All Tea-ed Up
If the rainbow flavors of the Tea Party feature a common taste, it’s that of fiscally restrained government — and the anti-Washington and pro-state fervor that comes along with it. Not coincidentally, that was the overwhelming theme of the GOP’s recent convention, setting the tone — as the Democrats did in their state gathering — for the November general election.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Grissom, Hamilton, and Philpott on the Texas Democratic Party’s state convention, the two-step, the forecast, and the ticket; Galbraith on the political and environmental battle between state and federal environmental regulators, and on a new age of nukes in Texas; Burnson on signs of the times in San Antonio; Ramshaw on hackers breaking into the state’s confidential cancer database; Aguilar’s interview with Katherine Glass, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for governor; Acosta on efforts to stop ‘Murderabilia’ items that sell because of the association with killers; Ramshaw and the Houston Chronicle’s Terri Langford on the criminal arrest records of workers in state-funded foster care centers; Hu on accusations that state Sunset examiners missed problems with workers compensation regulators because they didn’t ask the right questions of the right people; Ramsey and Stiles on the rush to rake in campaign cash, and on political races that could be won or lost because of voter attraction to Libertarian candidates; and Aguilar’s fresh take on South Texas’ reputation for corruption. The best of our best from June 28 to July 3, 2010.
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Demographics
The Brief: July 2, 2010
He may be able to stay on message politically, but Gov. Rick Perry might still have something to learn when it comes to staying on topic on the phone.
