Rick Perry owes American men and women an apology for treating them as collateral to his gutless political campaign. Perry's statement in support of blocking the defense spending bill is Republican primary rhetoric at its worst. I demand that Rick Perry apologize to the brave [...]
The battle continues between Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison over the significance of Hutchison's vote early this morning to end a Republican filibuster on a defense spending bill.
Perry's campaign, which earlier called the [...]
To challenge Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's efforts to fight Democratic health care plans, Gov. Rick Perry is now tweaking the senator for not filibustering - of all things - a defense spending bill.
The congressional session is nearly [...]
We continue to hear rumblings about the creation of a Texas Tea Party to compete with Republicans and Democrats. If the teabaggers were more than insignificant shills for Rick Perry, they would have already taken steps. We’re about to find out if they have the courage of [...]
Something's missing from the Texas governor's official state website. Gone from Rick Perry's biography is any mention of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the beleaguered toll-road project the governor once touted as a crowning jewel accomplishment of his tenure in office. Scrubbed is the paragraph about how Perry expanded the children's health [...]
Rick Perry doesn't like to talk about his days as a Democrat, particularly his role in 1988 as the head of Al Gore's presidential campaign in Texas.
But on Wednesday, after he accepted and [...]
Secessionist Larry Kilgore of Mansfield is pulling out of the Republican primary race for governor and throwing his support behind Houston-area GOP activist Debra Medina.
Although the Republican primary race has been billed as a showdown between incumbent Gov. Rick Perry and his leading challenger, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Kilgore told PoliTex that he [...]
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports, "Tarrant medical examiner appointed to state forensic commission," by Alex Branch and Dave Montgomery.
Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani was appointed Monday to the Texas Forensic Science Commission, the group that fell into controversy this fall when Gov. Rick Perry replaced several members.
Peerwani’s term on the [...]
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday afternoon that he has asked Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani to serve on the Texas Forensic Science Commission through Sept. 1, 2011.
The commission, which oversees professional conduct in forensic laboratories and facilities in Texas, is the same one that Perry removed three members from [...]
One might imagine Perry's opponent to be a Democrat, but she is Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas' [...]
Recent statements and strategy decisions have made clear that U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison believes it is Republicans — and not independents or Democrats, as some others have suggested — who can lift her to victory over Gov. Rick Perry in the March GOP primary.
Hutchison's' [...]
We broke the story about how Rick Perry's chairman of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission was soliciting money for the governor's re-election campaign from the owners of bars and restaurants he regulates. Perry's reaction at the time: No problem. A Perry aide said there's nothing wrong with a state [...]
Granted, no one reads the Washington Times except Moonies and really, really stupid, but it's still a publication that gets cached on the web and simple searches reveal, once again, our Governor fully out of his depth...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday compared President Obama being awarded the Nobel [...]
Did Kay Bailey Hutchison support redistricting - the controversial, contentious and hyper-partisan exercise of 2003 when Gov. Rick Perry forced the Legislature into special session to redraw congressional boundaries two years after they'd already been redrawn, leading to the ouster of seven senior' [...]
