(Carole Keeton McClellen Rylander Your Ad Here) Strayhorn announces candidacy for (TX) governor

Houston Chronicle ^ | 6/18/05 | R.G. RATCLIFFE

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Flyer]

Is that his actual name????

Yep. All legal, done in the courts and everything.

[oldtimer]

Years ago I voted in the rat primary because there was no reason to vote in the Republican primary.

I voted against the rat that I hated the most which was usually pretty easy.

The rat driven Universities might send out a bunch of kids to vote for Strayhorn, and other rats will cross, along with some rinos, but Perry will win.

[outlawcam]

Perry might isn't perfect but he isn't a "spineless jellyfish" either. Tort reform and congressional redistricting are just two issues that come to mind where he stood up to the Dems and forced the issue to a good conclusion.

I'm not so certain I'd call what Perry did "standing up." He pays lip service now and again, but where something requires bite, Perry is stark raving tame.

What bothers me right now is Perry's "solution" to the "problem" of public school financing. In his commercial airing on AM 570 KLIF, he brags that he's going to be spending so much more money on public schools, and that he'd make businesses pay "their fair share" of the tax burden, as if he didn't know that businesses pay no tax that they don't pass on to the consumer. So the property tax burden would be reduced. The overall tax liability is not; it just gets hidden, so you really don't know how much you're actually paying. Throwing money at the schools is not going to improve them, and I resent being spoken to as if he expects me to believe it would.

At least Strayhorn has come out in favor of opening up the school system to competition (which I interpreted as "vouchers" or something like it). I'm afraid I don't know much more than that about her, other than that and what I've read in this article.