Texas Democrats

           As a lifelong Texan and UT graduate "Phillp Martin", writes this blog out of the Burnt Orange Report. Targeting the Texas Democrats to play a role in electing Bill White, which he believes is exactly who we need right now and not Rick Perry. Of course, Bill White will not solve all the problems in four years, but he can put us on a different path that the one George W. Bush and Rick Perry have had us on for the last sixteen years.

Phillp Martin is claiming that Bill White will be a better governor than Rick Perry, that the stakes are too high for Bill White to not get elected.  In evidence the Democrats’ got their first endorsement for governor in at least a quarter century, Dallas Morning News, which wrote that Bill White represents “the best Texas tradition of the businessman governor”. The Texas Democratic Party true strength of Bill White grassroots campaign rests in his massive field program, and irrefutable online advantage to the $21.3 million he has raised from 25,000 contributors across Texas. The field program is a great attempt to overcome the challenge of defeating our 10-year incumbent Governor who many think to be unstoppable. There are Democrats wishing Bill White talked more about issues, wanting him to get more negative against Rick Perry, and concern that Bill White has not done enough to connect with the Hispanic community. His campaigns strategy is not the right one to win that is why Bill White will not be governor.

With just two weeks to go, each of us needs to do everything within our power to play a role. Maybe, it is time for a change, for short-term or the long-term success in Texas. “GAME ON!” 

            

Hypocrisy in Texas

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Where does he get this $22 million to restore the Governor’s Mansion? How did it escape the budget cuts that state-funded agencies are facing?  John Kelso, a commentary out of the Austin American-Statesman, writes this article. I agree with Kelso, of putting Gov. Rick Perry in the lobby of the American Hypocrisy Museum. In May, the State Board of Education delayed new textbooks cause of a $347 million price tag. Perry, who is anti-Washington, rejected away hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money for education but accepting Washington’s help on the mansion project. Shuffling money around from the Department of Public Safety to the State Preservation Board, which helped pay half of the $22 million needed for the mansion redo. Since it classified as federal money, the project was able to escape the drastic budget cuts that state-funded agencies are facing. Using Hurricane Ike upfront emergency expense money, which the feds provided to reimburse Texas. Fed money is not only being used to fix up the mansion, it may also be covering the expenses on Perry's house in West Austin, which is $9,000-a-month. Kelso, who called the governor’s office to see if any of the federal funds were being used to pay for Perry's rent, but was quickly directed to the State Preservation Board, then shooed around to the Comptroller’s Office and Preservation Board. Talking to Julie Fields "State Preservation Board" and R. J. DeSilva "Comptroller's Office" none gave direct evidence if it was federal money, but easily deflecting attention away from the issue.