BIll White’s unedited gubernatorial announcement speech from Houston on December 4th. Part one of two.
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2010: Kinky Moves?
Texas Democrats aren’t through with the changes on the statewide ticket. Take a look at this teaser from gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, issued after Hank Gilbert exited the governor’s race, set his heart on being agriculture commissioner, and endorsed Farouk Shami.
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2010: McLeroy vs. the World
Lobbyists from across the Republican party come out to support one of their own for State Board of Education, forsaking former chair Don McLeroy.
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2010: Dan Patrick Staying Put, Endorsing Combs
Forget what I said on this week’s TribCast, parroting the chatter around the Capitol: The state senator from Houston is not considering a primary challenge to his fellow Republican, Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs.
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TribBlog: Some States May Ban Return-to-work
Though Texas employees are increasingly retiring just to get rehired — a clever way to bring in a salary AND a pension at once — USA Today reports that many states are curbing the practice.
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Behind the Bill White Announcement
We take you behind the scenes of Bill White’s announcement for governor in Houston.
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TribBlog: Whitmire Wants “Top-to-Bottom” Changes at TDCJ
“If the prison administrators cannot get the job done, we need to find some who can.”
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2010: Gilbert Switches to Ag, Endorses Shami
Hank Gilbert got out of the race for the Democratic nomination for governor, saying there are “two credible candidates” in the race. And he said he’ll be a candidate for agriculture commissioner — the office he tried unsuccessfully to win in 2006. And then came the real surprise: Gilbert said he is endorsing Farouk Shami for the Democratic nomination.
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And They’re Off!
It’s time to harvest the political speculations of the last several months: Democrats and Republicans have until January 4 to put their names on the ballots, or not, in anticipation of the March 2 primaries.