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  • Strayhorn hopes toll road leads to victory

    07/13/2006 3:43:43 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 24 replies · 625+ views
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | July 13, 2006 | Bud Kennedy
    DENTON - "Grandma" lost her argument for a contrived ballot nickname. But Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn of Austin might have found a plank on which to build a campaign against Gov. Rick Perry. It's a plank 600 miles long and a quarter-mile wide. It's a giant, privately owned, multilane tollway that would part the Texas countryside the way the governor parts his ample hair. Strayhorn, a Republican running as an independent candidate, has criticized the Trans-Texas Corridor tollway plan loudly for months. So have the other principal challengers in this traffic jam of a race, novelist Kinky Friedman of Medina...