Whether or not the outcome of tomorrow’s gubernatorial primary is conclusive — whether or not we have a runoff six weeks hence — we can say this with certainty: One of the five main candidates on the ballot will be the next governor of Texas. And this: 40 hours from now, we’ll know much more about the state’s coming political landscape than we do today. While we bide our time and wait for results, we present these final snapshots of the campaigns as they wound down.
Griffin Perry
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In Closing: Rick Perry
“I treat every campaign seriously,” he says. “Nobody’s gonna outwork me. Nobody can put in more hours and go more places and do more things than I do.”
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In Closing: Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Things are going great. I feel good, and I’m going to campaign to the end,” she told a TV reporter shortly before Houston’s Downtown Rodeo Parade. “I don’t think the polls are right.”
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2010: White Responds to Carney
Bill White’s campaign says it’s “focused on the issues that matter to our state’s future, not the divisive politics of Rick Perry” or his political consultant.
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2010: Carney: Bill White the “Longest of Long Shots”
Will Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign try to define Bill White as a “big city trial lawyer, anti gun, sanctuary city promoting, Clinton protégé DC politician”?
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw on the state’s quiet sharing of infant blood samples with the military and on the things Rick Perry’s opponents aren’t saying about him, Grissom on Farouk Shami’s surprising popularity in El Paso, Philpott on the political advantages of a job creation fund and how Debra Medina’s supporters are reacting to her “truther” comments, Hu on Debra Medina in the latest installment of Stump Interrupted, Thevenot on how the kids feel about the federal option of closing bad high schools, Rapoport on the newest mutation of the state’s pay-as-you-go transportation philosophy, and our roundup of party primaries in the last week before the election: Rapoport on HD-7, Ramsey on HD-11, Aguilar on HD-36 and HD-43, Philpott on HD-47, Thevenot on HD-52 and SD-5, Kreighbaum on HD-105 and one Supreme Court race, M. Smith on another, and Hamilton on the colorful Democratic candidates for Agriculture Commissioner. The best of our best from February 22 to 26, 2010.
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2010: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
As if there wasn’t enough action planned in Austin on Tuesday, the Texas State History Museum Foundation announced today that it will be honoring none other than President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush at a dinner on the very same night as the primary election.
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State Government
2010: Perry Compares KBH to Kinky
He has slammed his main rival in Tuesday’s GOP primary as a creature of the tainted D.C. culture, as insufficiently conservative, as indecisive — but this may be the unkindest cut of all.
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State Government
TEF = Texas Election Fund
Facebook is opening up a satellite office in Austin — the first one in Texas for the California-based social media giant. The move, which will create 200 jobs, was sealed with $1.4 million from Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund. The governor on Thursday also announced 100 new jobs for the small town of Cuero, thanks again to the TEF. Ben Philpott, who’s covering the 2010 elections for KUT News and the Tribune and KUT News, reports on how the job-creating fund can be a pretty effective campaign tool as well.
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TribBlog: Texas Spends $1.4 Million to Friend Facebook (Updated)
The Texas Enterprise Fund will dole out money to the social networking site for new operations in Austin.
