The Great Texas Hair Campaign continues! Bob Garrett told you about Farouk Shami, the hair-products magnate who says he's running for the Democratic nomination for governor. But check out the video below, from Jason Embry's First Reading, in which Shami...
Texas Democrats have struggled in recent years winning statewide office. In the halcyon days, the party had money, recognizable names and a coordinated campaign (i.e. a party slate of candidates). With that in mind, singer/writer Kinky Friedman and Austin...
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told radio talk show host Mark Davis of WBAP-AM (820) that she will resign from the Senate this fall to focus on her run against Rick Perry in the Republican primary for governor. "The actual leaving...
The Rick Perry camp has a new poll that indicates Kay Bailey Hutchison's huge lead over the governor might be closing. Hutchison hasn't really done much in recent weeks, but Perry has been active in bashing Washington, aka, Hutchison. He...
House Democratic Leader Jim Dunnam of Waco wants to change where Gov. Rick Perry -- or any future governor -- lives. In a floor amendment to the two year state budget, Dunnam proposed to change the address of the state's...
Scooporama by the estimable Evan Smith over at his Texas Monthly blog. Evan gets from former Ambassador Tony Garza an unequivocal endorsement of Rick Perry in next year's Republican primary. Garza, a one-time Texas Railroad Commissioner and more recently spouse...
If the Republican primary for governor were held today, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison would thump Gov. Rick Perry by a margin of 56 to 31. Okay, a few caveats about the poll: It was done by Democratic pollsters (although they...
Further evidence the race for governor is moving at a brisk clip: Veteran GOP media adviser Hans Klingler is leaving the state Republican Party to head up campaign communications for Sen. Kay Bailey Huchison's bid for governor. The senior senator...
Anticipating a political buzzsaw from Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison says she wants to run a positive campaign for governor. And to make her point, she summoned up a reference to that old "Happy Warrior," Humbert H. Humphrey. "We have...
Kay Bailey Hutchison held the first meeting of her campaign organization aimed at knocking off incumbent Gov. Rick Perry. Hutchison gathered for a day-long session Saturday with about 300 supporters and financial backers at an Austin hotel. Apparently none of...
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