Bill White is the sort of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Schieffer had hoped to be. He’s well-funded. He’s got an organization and a base of voters. He’s the kind of moderate who can attract votes from independents and not just Democrats. And he never voted for George W. Bush.
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White’s Pitch to Texas
The start of Houston Mayor Bill White’s stump speech in Austin on Friday.
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2010: Shapleigh endorses Bill White
Houston Mayor Bill White hasn’t even announced yet that he’s running for governor. But state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, is endorsing him.
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2010: Friedman Campaign Responds, However Briefly
Kinky campaign: Schieffer announcement doesn’t change our plans.
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Schieffer’s Out, Will Endorse White
Democrat Tom Schieffer dropped out of the gubernatorial race, saying he’ll endorse Houston Mayor Bill White and hopes other gubernatorial candidates will do the same.
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The Brief: November 23, 2009
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said she wanted to keep fighting the “government takeover of healthcare” — and now she’ll get her chance.
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Retired, Rehired
No snowbirds here. A growing number of state employees are retiring and coming straight back to work, padding — and in some cases nearly doubling — their state salaries with pension pay-outs.
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Soul Search: Dallas churches unite to right historic wrongs
The Dallas church community has vowed to forge 25 partnerships with high-poverty public schools and push for 700 units of housing for the homeless — a down payment on a larger effort to heal wounds left by racism and injustice.
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Peace, Love, and Understanding
Earlier this month, Rick Perry helped push a so-called RINO — Republican In Name Only — off the congressional ballot in New York, only to see the Conservative Party candidate he backed lose to a Democrat. But that kind of us-versus-them narrative was missing from the just completed Republican Governor’s Association meeting in Bastrop County.
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Justice Revival: Dallas
Rev. Jim Wallis, a leading progressive preacher and founder of Sojourners, addressed Dallas Christians on Nov. 12, 2009. The social justice movement, he said, “is not about social action. It’s not about politics. It’s about restoring the integrity of the word of God in our lives, our churches, our neighborhoods, our city and our nation.”