We've come along way. So basically it boils down to you know a handful of young people are spoiled pricks that don't work for a living and they happen to be ignorant Republicans. I can now officially say it.
Why is it you think I am the one who is mad? You came into this thread and spouted off about knowing "a lot of the members" of the Tea Party and Young Republicans and claimed a "majority" of them were non-tax paying entitled jerks who really shouldn't have any say in taxation and government spending. You are the one who felt the need to exaggerate and criticize. I was intrigued by this idea and probed into your story to find out that "a lot of" and "majority" was really Cheezey code for "several." I am amused by your hostility. Not angry. But no I don't want a side hug from you. I know a lot of the liberals in college station and the majority of them would cop a feel if I let them hug me.
via TPM -- We've now got our first non-Rasmussen poll of the Texas governor's race (from PPP ). And it shows a dead even race between Gov. Rick Perry (R) and former Houston Mayor Bill White. The poll has Perry and White at 43% each. The survey of registered voters has a ±4.4% margin of error. A key indicator of Perry's vulnerability is that his approval rating is only 36%, with 49% disapproval, while White has a favorable rating of 37%-25%. In the horserace cross-tabs, Perry leads among Republicans by 74%-15%, White leads among Democrats by 76%-10%, and White leads with independents by 42%-36%.
After what he did to Houston I sure hope not. The only good thing about Bill White, other then the fact that he is gone, is that he wasn't as bad as Lee "Out of Town" Brown...
please, please, please, i am hoping so White did a decent job in Houston and has to be better that Tricky Ricky
The following is probably more detailed and realistic, as an answer to your question, than what you will receive from OddsCletusOn. Spoiler <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gXVFoEpy10g&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gXVFoEpy10g&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
left the city with a good sized deficit, and killed the strip club industry. what other negative marks would you give him? i emailed the bill white campaign to inquire about his view on gambling, here is the response i received
I didn't expect this. My thought was if White was going to win, he would pull even very late in the campaign. This may indicate that voters' revulsion with Perry is stronger than even I thought.
Can Bill White upset Rick Perry? HELL YES! Star-Telegram.com Poll shows Perry, White with 43 percent each in Texas gubernatorial race Posted Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 By DAVE MONTGOMERY dmontgomery@star-telegram.com AUSTIN -- Giving Texas Democrats a boost before their state convention in Corpus Christi this week, a new poll shows that former Houston Mayor Bill White is now in a tie with Gov. Rick Perry in his bid to become the first Democratic governor since the mid-1990s. The survey by Public Policy Polling, released Tuesday, shows White, a Democrat, and Perry, a Republican, with 43 percent each, erasing Perry's 48-42 lead in the group's survey four months ago. White picked up more independents and crossover voters than Perry did, the pollsters said. "Bill White has the potential to give Democrats their biggest bright spot on what will probably overall be a bad election in November," said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy. "A win in the Texas governor's race would be huge for the party and instantaneously make White one of the most prominent Democrats in the country." But Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner said Public Policy "is the same polling firm that had us down 25 points" during Perry's gubernatorial primary race against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and conservative activist Debra Medina. Perry won the primary without a runoff, grabbing 51.1 percent of the vote compared with 30.3 percent for Hutchison and 18.5 percent for Medina. Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy, of Raleigh, N.C., acknowledged that Perry was down 25 percent in a February 2009 poll but noted that he had a 9-point lead in a poll a month before the March primary. Jensen said the company conducts private polling for Democratic clients but stays "right down the middle" on publicly released polls. Katy Bacon, a spokeswoman for White, said, "No matter what poll you're looking at, a majority of Texans have had enough of career politician Rick Perry just focusing on himself and his political career instead of our state's future." The poll also showed that only 10 percent of Texas voters want to see Perry run for president in 2012 compared with 69 percent who prefer that the state's longest-serving governor stay in Texas. Sixty-one percent of Republicans oppose a Perry run for president, Public Policy says. Perry's political assaults on Washington as well as his victory over the state's senior senator in the primary have fueled speculation about a presidential run, but Perry has repeatedly said he's not interested. link
I'm curious, too. The primary revulsion people appear to have towards Bill White is that he made Houston a "Sanctuary City" for illegal immigrants. Past that, I have no idea what he did specifically to make Houston appealing to illegal immigrants, just that he has a nickname (which the right are very good at creating). Of course, I don't actually expect any sort of legitimate response from OddsOn.
