02.08.10
The Race for Governor, Shami and White Debate Tonight
Be sure and check out the Debate between Democratic candidates for Texas Governor Farouk Shami and Bill White, (here’s a list of where to watch/listen). Brains and Eggs has a great round up of all that’s been written about both candidates lately heading into the debate, Bill vs. Farouk.
Tonight, live and in person, on your teevee. And lately also in the news and in the blogs.
Here’s Red White and Blue’s video interview with Shami (it goes 26 minutes plus). And the TexTrib has compiled several links and video in “The More You Know … About Bill White“. Charles Kuffner has audio interviews with both men.
The Texas Observer’s The Mayor and The Mogul has some good Q&A.
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Despite being the house organ for the Texas Democratic establishment, Burnt Orange Report breaks with the party line in their aggregate of the Austin Statesman’s reporting. The AAS’s PolitiFact breaks down Shami’s racism allegations against White. And Dr. Richard Murray of the University of Houston and ABC13 predicts that White will get 60% of the primary vote on March 2 (a contention I dispute in the comments there and in this post as well).
Hal levels a critique on the Shami campaign and specifically campaign manager Vince Leibowitz, who is the president of the Texas Progressive Alliance, in which the three of us of are members. Muse posted about Shami’s “beefy aides“, and compared statements between White and Kay Bailey (personally, I can’t tell the difference).
I posted about the exclusion of the other five candidates for governor from tonight’s debate here, an entreaty that fell on completely deaf ears. I also had a compilation of news and blog articles on Shami last month, and my 2007 meeting on e-Slate issues with White, before and after.