WE'VE GOT A DEBATE, EVEN THOUGH IT DOESN'T INCLUDE PERRY...

[kjackson227]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-nudebate_29tex.ART.State.Edition1.33fd6b1.html

Stay tuned to see if and when it will broadcast in your areas. I'm glad Texas voters will get a chance to learn more about Mr. White.

[Melissa G]

1. Good. I hope we get exposure out of Austin. I'll be curious

how many other stations broadcast the debate besides KLRU statewide.

[white cloud]

2. Thanks

will stay tuned. Perry is asleep at the wheel anyway.
He need a good enema and a run from office.
Sad he is leaving us with a -18 billion hole

[kjackson227]

4. You're welcome.. But, this creep isn't asleep, he's just too arrogant by thinking ...

he's nipped this election in the bud. I'm just hoping that we Dems will gotv, if we do, then Perry is toast.

[kjackson227]

3. Since the Dallas Morning News is one of the sponsors...

I'm hoping that WFAA will air it. From what I understand, if Bill wins the heavily populated cities, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, then he'll win the election??? Not sure, so we need Sonias to chime in :)

[PDittie]

5. One this weekend in Houston also ...

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-texas-gubernatorial-debate-sunday.html

[kjackson227]

6. Thanks for the info. Sure wish I could see it or be there...

maybe your local paper will post a narrative. If they do, would you please post it here?

[PDittie]

9. Indeed I will eom

[PDittie]

12. Houston Chronic and two blogs

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. ...

"I appreciate the other candidates being here," White said in his opening remarks. "I think each of us views appearances in public forums as an obligation of a candidate to be accountable to you. Now there may be career politicians who think it can be done in 30-second sound bites that do not want to answer the tough questions about the state's budget or why we're number 49 out of 50 states of the percentage of adults with a high-school diploma."

Alluding to the Emerging Technology Fund in his closing remarks, White told the audience of about 300 that it was important "to make sure that this state government is well-run as a public service for all the people and not as a political machine." ...

"It's sort of an open secret, especially among high-tech people, that these funds are not allocated in a way that you would expect from a professional venture-capital operation, that it's more who you know," White said at a campaign event early Sunday. "The governor's office needs to be used as a public service machine, not a political machine, and he ought to be spending more time squeezing value out of tax dollars instead of squeezing contributions out of contributors."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7230336.html

Comments also running uncharacteristically strong against the governor.

Neil Aquino's Texas Liberal was there:

http://texasliberal.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/candidates-for-governor-of-texas-debate-education-an-eyewitness-report

I was not, but wrapped a mention of the debate into my post about today's "beauty pageant" meme:

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2010/10/running-on-his-physical-appearance.html

[kjackson227]

13. Thanks for the info, PDittie :)

[Melissa G]

11. Great column! Thanks for the link.

Are they actually going to set up a chair for Mr Vacant? I wish each debate would. I really do...

[sonias]

7. Rubber chicken Perry

Too arrogant to bother answering questions for the people of Texas.

:kick: his sorry arrogant behind out of our Governor's mansion!

[CoolOnion]

8. Perry's ad about "confronting Obama" is pretty hilarious

There's our Governor, grinning and shaking hands with Obama, while the voice over & text claim he's "confronting Obama over immigration." Yeah, that'll go over well with his base. :rofl:

[sonias]

10. Oh yeah what a confrontation

:rofl: with you