The three Republican gubernatorial candidates — Kay Bailey Hutchison, Debra Medina, and Rick Perry — met for the second, and probably final, time in Dallas tonight. We came, we watched, we wrote, live-blogging all the way.
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State Government
File Not Found
In the Information Age, it still takes the major political parties in Texas three weeks to figure out who should be listed on their state ballots.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: Data Decisions
Some deep-pocketed trial lawyers didn’t make the Twenty Who Gave Plenty list. Why not?
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Politics
Speaking Tweets to Power
Rick Perry’s Blogger Summit featured big-name speakers, social media strategizing and a chance to shoot guns with the Governor. What it didn’t feature: much talk about Texas.
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Spoiler Alert
What’s it like to be a person who wages a no-win campaign but, by taking votes away, dooms the chances of one or more of the other candidates in the race? Mark White knows. Kinky Friedman knows. Debra Medina could soon find out.
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State Government
2010: Michael Williams Rails
… against Washington, of course, and the less-than-resolute wing of his party: An interview with the Texas Railroad Commissioner, who’d like very much, thank you, to be the next Marco Rubio.
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Ready to Runoff
Let’s say, thanks to Debra Medina, neither Rick Perry nor Kay Bailey Hutchison cracks 50 percent in the Republican gubernatorial primary. What exactly happens next? When? And which of the two top finishers will have the edge?
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Criminal Justice
What Does Debra Want?
Now that she’ll join Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison on stage at the second GOP debate — now that she’s cracked spoiler-worthy double digits in the latest poll and will fundraise, Ron Paul-style, through an online “money bomb” — it’s fair to ask what longshot gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina is in it for.
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Openly Hostile
Kay Bailey Hutchison says Texas government should be more transparent. Rick Perry says it already is. Let the sniping begin.
