January 11, 2012 5:00 am by: Emily Donahue
Gov. Rick Perry labeled President Obama a "socialist" in Sunday's NBC News/Facebook debate in New Hampshire. Photo by Ben Philpott/KUT News
Gov. Rick Perry refreshed a charge about President Obama in a debate last weekend. Emily Donahue with KUT News spoke with Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman about Perry’s response when he was asked Sunday whether he agreed with Republican Sen. John McCain that President Obama is a patriot....
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The result of Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican presidential primary election was inconsequential for Texas Governor Rick Perry. Aside from two debate appearances over the past weekend, Perry was willing to write off the Granite State and plead his case to the GOP faithful in South Carolina....
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This week on the KUT/ Texas Tribune TribCast, Evan Smith, Ross Ramsey, Reeve Hamilton, and Ben Philpott talk about the Perry campaign shake-up (or lack thereof), the disappearing incumbents of the Texas House, and the business franchise tax....
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Rick Perry sharpened his populist tirade against Wall Street financiers and Washington politicians Wednesday, saying Americans had been “snookered” by bogus investments and a string of taxpayer-financed bailouts.
Wrapping up a two-day swing through first-test New Hampshire with an energetic...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry picked up a substantial endorsement when Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Phoenix, Arizona joined him on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. Perry’s dramatic tumble from the top in the GOP primary can be somewhat attributed to what has been called a soft stance on illegal...
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is filing a request for an emergency stay with the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the implementation of redistricting maps issued by a federal panel in San Antonio.
The Attorney General is arguing that the interim maps drawn by a three-judge panel violate the U.S....
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A just-released redrawn congressional map of Texas puts an end to the fight over the new 35th congressional district of Texas.
When a federal court in San Antonio today issued a proposed interim map for Texas congressional districts ahead of the 2012 elections, it averted a showdown over a new...
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It was a night of faith and tears for the GOP candidates in Iowa. 6 of the 8 top tier candidates were at a forum hosted by the conservative Christian group The Family Leader in Des Moines.
The evening promised to be different from the multiple debates the candidates have attended. With moderators...
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A three-judge federal panel in San Antonio issued a set of proposed redistricting maps for the 2012 elections on Wednesday. Several groups, including the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus, argued the maps drawn by the Texas legislature earlier this year took voting power away from...
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Lawmakers and hopefuls across the state began filing to run for the 2012 election this week. At the same time, the state continued its battle to change the maps those candidates would use to run for election.
When the federal three-judge panel drew the new state House map, it created five...
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Rick Perry's chief strateist, Dave Carney, clearly doesn't think much of once (and future?) GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney.
In The Right Fights Back, a just-published inside-the-2012-campaign e-book written by Politico's Mike Allen and former Newsweek writer Evan Thomas, Carney lays...
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay to block the use of State House and Senate maps drawn by a three-judge panel.
Today is the first day of candidate filing in Texas, and the maps are now the basis for where candidates can run.
Supreme...
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In the array of governors who turned to national politics — a collection that includes four of the last six presidents and a horde of contestants who didn’t make it — Rick Perry looks a lot more like Sarah Palin than like George W. Bush. And not just in his politics.
Bush went from...
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Tuesday night’s CNN Republican National Security Debate highlighted a wide disparity among Republican candidates and provided several interesting back and forth discussions on the path ahead for U.S. foreign policy and security.
The disagreements between Texas Congressman Ron Paul and...
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Federal judges proposed new political maps for the state late Thursday and hope to have new congressional and legislative maps in place for Texas on the Monday after Thanksgiving.
That’s the court-set date when candidates for the Texas House and Senate and for the state’s 36 congressional...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry spent the last week trying to make people forget about his brain freeze when naming three federal agencies he would cut if elected President. That effort included delivering a policy speech where he said he would take a wrecking ball to Washington D.C.'s bureaucracy.
On...
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