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03/08/2010

Former Texas GOP chairman Tom Pauken blasts Bush, Rove in new book
"Republican politics is barely recognizable to many of us who were grassroots activists in the early days of the conservative movement – especially after eight years of a Republican administration headed up by George W. Bush, who claimed to be a conservative," Pauken writes in Bringing America Home.

03/02/2010

Slater: Verdict in Bob Perry case was a message about court system
AUSTIN — When a jury ruled against Houston homebuilder Bob Perry this week in the long legal battle with a retirement-age Mansfield couple with a defective house, it was more than a judgment.

02/09/2010

Mansfield couple’s fight with powerful homebuilder back in court
The Culls are a retirement-age couple who say Perry Homes built a defective house with a broken foundation and cracked walls, but won’t fix it. The Mansfield couple took their case to arbitration and won an $800,000 award — but Perry refused to pay, saying the couple had waived their legal rights to arbitrate.

01/27/2010

Slater: In Texas politics, you’re with ’em one day, against ’em the next
In the revolving door of Texas political campaigns, one day you’re criticizing a candidate, and next day you’re working for him.

01/22/2010

Does Bush endorsement help Hutchison in the year of tea parties?
In any normal year, the endorsement of a president would be a gold mine in a governor’s race. But with this year’s voter anger, Tea Party energy and anti-Washington sentiment, does it help to showcase support from the establishment?

01/15/2010

Hutchison's ammo falters in debate
Kay Bailey Hutchison had to convince Republican primary voters of two things in Thursday's debate: why they should boot Rick Perry out of the governor's office and why they should put her in.

01/13/2010

Slater: Recalling key moments from Texas debates past
Sometimes, there are moments in debates — a slip, a mistake, a gaffe — that are remembered long after the election is over.

12/07/2009

Two sides of Hutchison apparent as she files to run for governor
Both Kay Bailey Hutchisons showed up to file for governor Monday — Primary Kay and General Election Kay. Like hyperkinetic twins, they tended to talk over each other.

11/17/2009

Cheney warms up patient crowd for Hutchison
"We Westerners know the difference between a real talker and the real deal," the former vice president said. "And when it comes to being conservative, Kay Bailey Hutchison is the real deal."

10/27/2009

Slater: Bush, others make pitch to motivate at FW seminar
Across the vast expanse of the Fort Worth Convention Center on Monday was a sea of optimistic, primed-for-success, quota-beating masters of both life and the sales meeting.

10/13/2009

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's secession talk triggered calls of 'good riddance'
In calls, letters and e-mails to the governor's office, both sides in the secession debate have made their opinions known to Perry. Inside Texas, a state that correspondents are quick to note was once a republic, there's plenty of pro and con about the virtues of sovereignty.

10/05/2009

Slater: Perry team stretches facts to talk down Farm Bureau’s backing of Hutchison
Each side accused the other of bad faith and bad votes, leaving voters to navigate all the finger pointing.

09/30/2009

Slater: Perry uses obscure book to send a message to conservative base
When Gov. Rick Perry recommended an obscure book at a recent conference for social conservatives in Washington, heads nodded around the room.

09/21/2009

Slater: Karl Rove's relentless style underscored in former Bush speechwriter's new book 'Speechless'
As a political operative in Texas and Washington, Karl Rove was hardly alone in the practice of spreading rumors to damage an opponent.

09/18/2009

Slater: Matt Latimer recalls Kay Bailey Hutchison 'purse boys' in new book 'Speechless'
Former George W. Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer admits being enamored of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison when he arrived as young staffer on Capitol Hill some years ago.

09/15/2009

Slater: Perry touts Guiliani, but not on social issues
Rudy Giuliani — the hero of 9/11, the voice of heroic first responders the day terrorists struck — came to Texas this week to raise money for Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election. It’s payback by Giuliani, who got the Texas governor to campaign for him in Iowa and Florida in last year’s presidential race.

06/02/2009

Slater: As the credits roll, this Texas Legislature session looks like a bad movie
When the Legislature finally adjourned Monday night — first the House without finishing things, then the Senate angry over being jilted — it was like a scene in that spurned-lover film where Julia Roberts flees a bad situation at home.

05/30/2009

Slater: There's very little to remember this session by
Legislative sessions have distinct personalities, but this one has almost none at all.

05/22/2009

Slater: With bill-killing maneuver, Democrats sent House through the looking glass
The House became a Wonderland as Democrats talked incessantly about nothing, nothing, nothing at all.

05/18/2009

Quick Take: Texas Gov. Rick Perry burns in national spotlight after secession comments
Gov. Rick Perry, who seemed to relish the national spotlight over the prospects of Texas seceding, has now written newspaper opinion columns saying that he never really advocated leaving the union – "and never will."

04/23/2009

Quick Take: Perry woos religious, conservative voters
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry is playing politics behind closed doors this week but the message is clear: He's doing all he can to wrap up religious, conservative voters in his face-off with Kay Bailey Hutchison, the senator who plans to come back and run for governor.

04/16/2009

Slater: With ‘tea parties,’ Perry is both culture warrior and national conservative darling
The governor arrived for the “tea party” protests in a hunter’s cap with a camouflage brim.

04/15/2009

Quick Take: Friedman will need significant backing from Democrats to win governor's race
AUSTIN – Kinky Friedman's back for another run for governor and this time, he says, he's serious.

04/01/2009

Hutchison fought against income tax, but she was hardly alone
Kay Bailey Hutchison has been pressing an idea in her run for governor, aimed at winning conservatives: She was the sole voice against a state income tax in the early 1990s.

03/20/2009

Kinky Friedman's back, in new film and in politics
Kinky Friedman informally launched his 2010 campaign for governor at, appropriately enough, an old vaudeville theater.

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