1/02/2006

STRAYHORN TO RUN AS INDEPENDENT!

Monday 2:45pm: To set partisan politics aside, Carole Strayhorn announces she will run as an independent! HOUSTON CHRON Story Link. Strayhorn hit Perry hard with his failures in education, taxes and toll roads.

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“Rick Perry has so politically fractured this state that the only way we’re going to get anything done is to have independent leadership in this state. I am a Republican, but it is time to set partisan politics aside for the future of Texas,” Strayhorn said.


"It's time to shake Austin up," Strayhorn, who is now serving as a Republican officeholder, told reporters today, the filing deadline for the 2006 elections.

"Governor Perry may be doing the best he can, but after five years, we have learned he is not the strong leader we need to put Texas above politics," she added.


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