I have never seen tiny type used to make asides in a news release before, but obviously Harold Cook is on something ... I mean, on to something.
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January 11, 2010 (512) XXX-XXXX
In Stunning Move, Land Commissioner Candidate Hector Uribe Already up on Statewide TV
(Austin) Democratic candidate for Texas Land Commissioner Hector Uribe announced today that he's already on TV state-wide, when the USA cable network aired "No Country For Old Men" on January 6, and twice during their programming yesterday. Uribe had a speaking role in the film, which garnered four Academy Awards...for other actors. Uribe, for his part, managed to become one of only a few actors in the film to achieve the vaulted status of not being violently murdered by the end of it.
This surprise move makes Uribe the first candidate for Land Commissioner to be up on TV state-wide this election season.
"This is the kind of publicity that makes people. Things are going to start happening to me now," said Uribe,
shamelessly pilfering a line from another movie, "The Jerk."
Uribe's campaign will focus on maximizing revenue from state lands to help fund neighborhood schools, while also concentrating on how the state can best promote renewable energy.
Meanwhile, Uribe's Republican opponent threatened to shoot him last week.
Uribe said he isn't at all disturbed by the empty threat, explaining that if he can survive a Coen Brothers script, he can survive Jerry Patterson.
When Hank Gilbert announced he was going to run for Governor, I thought it would change the fundamentals of the race. That even if he doesn't prevail in his admittedly uphill battle, that he would make whoever did come out as the Dem nominee a better candidate.
I didn't expect it to play out as Tom Schieffer wholesale lifting the Gilbert platform.
Hank being Hank, the campaign didn't waste any time calling Time Warp Tommy out:
"While Hank is flattered that Tom Schieffer thinks enough of his 'Pledging Allegiance to Texas Public Schools' comprehensive pre-K - 12 education reform plan in order to adopt parts of it as his own, the larger issue remains that Schieffer is copycatting Hank in an effort to breathe oxygen into a moribund campaign.
I'm sure it's not as bad as all that for Schieffer. Somebody in that campaign must have a pulse.
But according to multiple sources that have confirmed this to Burnt Orange Report, Hank Gilbert, our 2006 Agriculture Commissioner candidate is gearing up to run statewide in the Governor's race. Gilbert was one of the first three TexRoots endorsed candidates, which included soon to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy Juan Garcia.
Gov. Rick Perry told The Dallas Morning News on Thursday that he would seek re-election as governor in 2010.
During a break in a Republican Governors Association forum being held in Grapevine, Mr. Perry said that he would like to return as governor.
Tell us: Will you vote for Gov. Perry in 2010?
When asked whether the gubernatorial field would include Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and himself, Mr. Perry responded , "I don't know about them, but it will be Perry in 2010."
"I don't know about the other two. You need to ask them."
