The governor reveals that and other nostalgic tidbits to Texas Monthly.
Griffin Perry
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Demographics
TribBlog: MALDEF Challenges Ariz. Law
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has filed a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s controversial new immigration law.
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2010: Perry 51, White 38
Rasmussen Reports released new poll numbers today showing Gov. Rick Perry widening his lead over Bill White.
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Politics
Neener-Neener
It’s an impulse most of us learn to suppress in the seventh grade — the need give your enemies wedgies, to tape “kick me” signs to their backs, to put lizards in their lunchboxes. Political people don’t suppress it — they channel it into goofy stunts to attract attention, ridicule opponents and blow off steam.
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Higher Education
A Voice but No Vote
It took decades to get Texas lawmakers to allow students to sit on each university system’s board of regents — and only on the condition that they can’t vote. But most other states with student regents do grant voting privileges.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Perry Releases Updated Security Plan
Gov. Rick Perry today released his updated homeland security plan, and border congressmen want to know why he’s not sending more federal security money to the border.
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Higher Education
Of Mice and Men
When Gov. Rick Perry announced the establishment of the Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine, a public-private partnership between the Texas A&M University System and Lexicon Genetics, he said the $50 million high-level mouse laboratory, paid for through the Texas Enterprise Fund that he controls, would “attract millions of dollars for medical research and lead to the development of life-saving medical treatments and therapies” for everything from diabetes to cancer. Five years later, depending on who you ask, TIGM has either been a massive taxpayer-subsidized boondoggle or a blessing to scientists across the globe.
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Guest Column: Hey, Bill White, Time to Get Off the Stick!
To beat Rick Perry, you have to fight more skillfully and take greater advantage of the rare openings you’re given.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: O’Neill Signs Off
Texas Supreme Court Justice Harriet O’Neill, who isn’t seeking reelection to the court, also isn’t finishing her term. She told Gov. Rick Perry and the other members of the court today that she will step down from the bench on June 20.
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State Government
TribBlog: White Has His Own Valley Support
Bill White touts his own Rio Grande Valley support, releasing a list of more than 90 officials who back him.
