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“Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend, David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for agriculture commissioner.”
"Kay Bailey Hutchison was elected state treasurer, succeeding Ann Richards. Democrats then abolished the position ... Hutchison later became a U.S. senator."
My "border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime."
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American people can actually find out what's in it."
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's "concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted.”
“Bill White ... supports the ‘ObamaCare’ socialized medicine plan, as well as ‘Cap and Trade’ legislation that would kill thousands of Texas jobs.”
“Bill White ...offered sanctuary to illegal immigrants.”
“Bill White spent his city billions of dollars into debt (and) saw crime rates soar while he backed gun control.”
Says the Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks.
"Individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as 39 percent."
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The Democratic health care bill will "collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only 6 years." — Todd Tiahrt- "Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing." — Barack Obama
- A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, "almost 40 percent" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because "they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform." — John Yarmuth
- The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second ten years." — Nancy Pelosi
"The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote, the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse." — J.D. Hayworth
