Recently in Bill White Category

I attended the League of Women Voters of the Houston Area Texas Governor's race debate held on Sunday, October 3 here in Houston.The debate was held at the Harris County Department of Education building you see pictured above. As you will note in the picture, this education building is named after Ronald Reagan.That would be funny if the joke were not on all of us.Three of the four candidates for Governor of Texas took part in this debate.The three...

The League of Women Voters of the Houston Area and the Harris County Department of Education are hosting a debate for our Texas Governor's Race.This debate will be held at 6PM Sunday, October 3 at the Harris County Board of Education building located at 6300 Irvington Boulevard in Houston.(Above--Incumbent Governor Rick perry refuses to debate this year. I think the League should set up an empty chair for the Governor. Above you see a Saddle Chair.  Maybe the...

The Clayton Williams story is a simple one. He was destined to be governor of the great state of Texas. He held a sizeable lead over Ann Richards a week before the election. The only thing that could have stopped him is what eventually happened. He was being interviewed when someone asked him his opinions on rape. He said women should, "sit back, relax, and enjoy it." The rest is as they say, history. Fastforward...

From Nick Anderson at the Houston Chronicle --...

Yep, the headline is correct. Five major newspapers in the state's largest cities (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth) have scheduled a debate for October 19th at the University of Texas.  All five papers ran editorials this morning urging Governor Rick Perry to stop playing games and step up to give Texans the debate that we deserve.  Click the city name to get the editorial. In conjunction with KLRU-TV of Austin, the newspapers...

I'm feeling a bit under the weather and wanted to turn the discussion back over to you guys today. I read a poll last week that tied Bill White up with Rick Perry.  That's great news given he faces low name recognition as it is state-wide. Question:  You are Bill White's campaign manager.  What does he need to do to win in this heavily red state?...

I'm writing this with a good bit of LOL in my bones. Thanks to The Burnt Orange Report, Elise Hu, and TX Democratic Headquarters Facebook page for this afternoon giggle. Apparently, today at 1:00 PM, the Perry campaign announced some sort of press conference to discuss..well,..something.. in front of Travis County Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign HQ and Bill White's Austin office.  Looks like he was going to talk about how he wasn't gonna debate Bill...

I was able to attend Bill White's noon announcement today that he is switching from a run for US Senate to Governor of Texas.  I have personally believed that he should have run for governor all along, but supported him for his Senate run.  The event was well attended even though it was snowing outside (yes, snowing in Houston) and most folks were fleeing to their homes in the burbs.  One of my friends quipped...