May 10, 2012 5:00 am by: Emily Donahue
Woman at Texas Capitol protests Republican lawmakers decision to exclude Planned Parenthood from the Women's Health Program. Photo by Marjorie Kamys Cotera/Texas Tribune
In a campaign season punctuated by increasingly harsh party-versus-party rhetoric, one topic has been particularly heated: legislation that predominantly affects women. Democrats are accusing Republicans of staging a “war on women” at the congressional and state level.
KUT’s Emily Donahue spoke with Evan Smith – editor in chief of our political reporting partner, the Texas Tribune – about what Democrats mean by the “war on women,” whether the GOP is at risk of alienating a key demographic and whether that could be allayed by a female vice presidential candidate pick.
Evan Smith:
This is a year in which we’ve seen attacks on Planned Parenthood, on family planning generally, and a revisiting of what we assumed was settled law on abortion. We’ve seen a discussion on contraception. These were not issues we expected with the economy in the state that it’s in, with the world as in turmoil in so many places. We figured the focus of a presidential campaign...
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The Tea Party Express makes a stop in Austin Sunday. Presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul with his son, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, will be there....
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A new opinion poll of Iowa Republican voters shows an interesting shift, but no real gains for either Texas Congressman Ron Paul or Governor Rick Perry.
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As 2011 comes to a close, we are taking a look back at the stories our readers liked best, judging by the number of pageviews they received.
With our governor jumping into the GOP presidential fray in August, stories about Rick Perry quickly and definitively became the most popular on the Trib...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry won't be on the ballot in the Virginia Republican primary on March 6. Several media outlets reported Friday night that the Perry campaign failed to get the needed 10,000 valid petition signatures to qualify for the Super Tuesday contest. Meanwhile, the Republican Party of...
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Today is the last day of Governor Rick Perry's eight-day bus tour through Iowa. Tomorrow, Perry will return to Texas for a brief Christmas break, then it's back to campaigning.
The Perry campaign called the bus tour a chance for Iowans to give the Texas governor a second look. He was once the...
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With two weeks to the first vote of the 2012 presidential race, Texas Governor Rick Perry revved up his bus tour of Iowa Tuesday by bringing a long-time supporter along for the ride.
Rick Perry hopped off the bus in Maquoketa, Iowa with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal close behind. The two have...
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Surveillance helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft will take the place of about 900 U.S. National Guard troops on the southern border as early as next year, according to information released today by the federal government.
The White House announced last week that it planned to reduce the number...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry wrapped up the first of his bus tours through Iowa Sunday, -- after dozens of stops that were a mix of stump speeches, working the crowd and good ol' Texas charm. Perry's trying to drum up support for the January 3rd Caucuses. The message of the week was: "Vote the...
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Rick Perry's campaign has filed suit in federal court challenging the constitutional validity of Virginia's ballot access rules. The Texas governor was notified last Friday that he had failed to submit the requisite number of valid signatures from registered voters in the Commonwealth and would not...
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Gov. Rick Perry was near the height of his popularity when he barnstormed California in September to raise money for his presidential bid and to participate in his first nationally televised debate.
His state-provided security guards were flying pretty high, too, spending more than $32,000 in...
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The two weeks leading up to Christmas are usually filled with holiday parties and last minute shopping trips. But not if you’re on a bus far from home, trailing a presidential candidate through another state.
There’s a pattern to following Governor Rick Perry in Iowa. Get on the bus, get off...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry has been advertising heavily in Iowa, trying to boost his standing there in the rush to the January presidential caucuses. Emily Donahue with KUT News spoke with Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman about Perry’s statement in an Iowa TV ad...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is getting some campaign help from a neighbor, as the GOP presidential hopeful tries to boost support ahead of Iowa’s January 3rd caucuses. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal joined Perry’s campaign bus tour today in eastern Iowa.
Jindal told a crowd in Maquoketa, Iowa that...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to face criticism in his home state over the discovery that he started taking his state employee retirement in January and still being paid to be the Governor of Texas. But on the road to the GOP presidential primaries he’s not facing the same kind of...
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Some Austin Latinos spoke out against AISD’s proposal for an in-district carter school managed by IDEA public schools. YNN Austin reports that,
Activists gathered Saturday to call for IDEA Charter's CEO to withdraw his proposal and to send a message to the school board.
"They...
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