LIVE The 2010 Texas Gubernatorial Debate on Sunday, Oct. 3 from 6-8PM CST.

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The 2010 Texas Gubernatorial Debate

Join us here for our live Webcast of The 2010 Texas Gubernatorial Debate on Sunday, Oct. 3 from 6-8PM CST.
http://www.hcde-texas.org/default.aspx?name=2010Debate

I wanted to make sure you knew about tonight's debate with Bill White, Kathie Glass and Deb Shafto. The debate is going to be streamed online from 7 p.m. - 8 p.m., and you can watch it here.

Over the past few months, Bill has been attending forums with Kathie Glass. In these final few weeks before the election, Bill will continue to talk about the issues that matter most to Texans and answer important questions. Twenty-five year incumbent Governor Rick Perry will be noticeably absent as he continues to hide from questions about his record.

Perry's handlers don't want him to answer tough questions after several weeks of gaffes and flip-flops, like when he referenced an "Ouija board" and a "crystal ball" while talking about measuring the size of Texas' budget hole projected between $18 and $21 billion. They are desperately hoping he can hide the truth and run out the clock until after the election. They are hoping that negative ads and smear tactics will hide Perry's education failures: the high school dropout crisis, tuition rates that have climbed 93% under his watch and a curriculum that fails students by merely teaching to the test.

We've got news for Rick Perry: Texans are ready to move our state forward and have had enough of a governor who's in it for himself.

We hope you'll join us for tonight's debate to hear directly from Bill. Click here for details and to watch it online.

Thank you for everything you've done and continue to do to bring new leadership to Texas.

Sincerely,

Michael J. Moore
Campaign Manager
Bill White for Texas


P.S. Bill White received the endorsement of the Austin-American Statesman this morning saying it was "time for a change." Click here to read the endorsement.

[kjackson227]

1. Sure wish I could've seen it. Wasn't on the board this weekend...

and didn't get your message in time, so I'll go out now to see if I can find the play by play. Good for AAS on the endorsement.

[sonias]

2. AAS endorsement

I created a thread for that just now. Good catch!

I hope Perry keeps getting skewered for being such a woose, such a Ricky, chicky, chicky.

:kick:

[kjackson227]

5. Thanks a bunch, sonias!

[sonias]

3. White hits Perry over tech-fund allegations

Houston Chronicle 10/4/10
White hits Perry over tech-fund allegations
Gubernatorial debate held in Houston without the governor's participation

In the fall campaign season's first debate open to all candidates for governor, Democrat Bill White waited until his closing statement to attack the candidate who wasn't there, incumbent Rick Perry, regarding allegations that he has used taxpayer funds to reward high-dollar campaign donors.

The debate was co-sponsored by the Harris County Board of Education and the Houston-area League of Women Voters, and most of the questions directed to White and the other two candidates, the Green Party's Deb Shafto and Kathie Glass of the Libertarian Party, had to do with education.

White reprised now-familiar positions on education during the hourlong event, actually a series of questions addressed to each candidate, before mentioning a Sunday Dallas Morning News report that claimed more than $16 million from the Emerging Technology Fund has been awarded to companies with investors or officers who are large campaign donors to Perry.

That's what you get rubber chicken Perry when you play too coward to debate!

:kick:

[sonias]

4. The story behind the tech-fund allegations

DMN 10/4/10
Perry says innovator who's also donor deserved tech funds

Austin entrepreneur David G. Nance and Gov. Rick Perry say they are big fans of each other. Nance has taken Perry hunting. Perry's son owned stock in Nance's former biotech company. Nance wrote fat checks to Perry's campaigns and pet projects.

Nance also is one of a number of large Perry campaign donors – he has contributed $80,000 since 2000 – whose companies have received millions of dollars from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The Dallas Morning News reported on Sunday that more than $16 million from the tech fund has gone to firms with officers or investors who were major Perry contributors.

In July and August, tech fund awards of $6.5 million were made to companies founded or overseen by Nance.

Oh I'm sure Perry will defend his "award" to Nance and of course he calls it "deserving". Because after all Nance is giving him a whole lot of it back in return! Nance knows how to play Perry's game. :mad:

[kjackson227]

6. Wow, that Kathie Glass sounds like a real doozy, LOL!

[sonias]

7. Let's hope she takes votes away from Perry

Taking a page from Sarah Palin, she wrote out her answers on her hand while other candidates were speaking, despite having a notebook on the stool beside her. She (Glass) also questioned the value of school dropout programs, since a 14-year-old, she said, "just possibly knows what's better for his life."

:crazy:

[kjackson227]

8. Yep, I hope she does...

but it looks like WE have to worry about the Green Party :(

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/sblow/stories/DN-blow_03met.ART.West.Edition1.333d9b6.html