The five major candidates in the governor’s race spent $24 million from Jan. 22 to Feb. 20.
Griffin Perry
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State Government
Look Back in Anger
With only a week to go before the GOP primary for governor, Debra Medina is pressing forward with her insurgent candidacy — despite the controversy over 9/11 truthers that temporarily upended her campaign. Her core supporters remain strongly with her, unfazed by and miffed at the media’s scrutiny. How the whole thing ends is anyone’s guess. Ben Philpott, covering the 2010 elections for KUT News and the Tribune, spent Monday on the trail with Medina and her flock and filed this report.
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Ads Infinitum: Perry’s “The Queen”
Move over Helen Mirren, there’s a new woman starring in “The Queen.” That’s the name of Rick Perry’s latest ad attacking Kay Bailey Hutchison.
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Politics
Ads Infinitum: Perry Releases “Tenth Amendment”
Gov. Rick Perry’s tapping into an anti-government groundswell with his latest ad. It’s called “Tenth Amendment.”
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Ads Infinitum: KBH Touts Endorsements
Kay Bailey Hutchison’s newest commercial touts her endorsements from Texas newspapers, emphasizing their scorn for Rick Perry rather their praise for her.
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Star-Telegram for KBH, White
The laggard of the big five papers finally calls, “Bingo!” — joining its edit board counterparts elsewhere in supporting the senior U.S. senator and the former Houston mayor in the upcoming party primaries for governor.
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Politics
Accentuate the Negative
Do attack ads work? In the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, we tested the effectiveness of two “comparative” commercials run in the governor’s race to see if they were persuasive to voters. Apparently so.
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Public Education
TribBlog: “Mayor, Dogcatcher, Whatever”
Whatever his job might be, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro says he would have applied for the federal government’s Race to the Top education grants, which could have been worth $700 million to the state’s schools.
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Economy
The Brief: February 17, 2010
Budget crunching, the EPA offends Texans, early voting is underway, and gay couples still can’t get … a divorce.
