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Says state Rep. Patrick Rose votes 90 percent with liberals, backed the state's largest tax increase, proposed nearly $15 billion in government spending and supported "Obama-style government-run health care system for Texas."
"Perry pushed for a law that lets insurance companies raise homeowners’ rates without having to justify the increase."
After Hurricane Katrina, "Dallas and San Antonio took in 5,000 to 10,000 refugees each, but (Bill) White brought in 250,000 and put them up in his 'buddies' empty apartment buildings and let the federal government pay their rents for over two years. They did not return to New Orleans, most of them are on welfare."
Says he created more than 500 American jobs.
Says opponent Bill Flores helped run a company that laid off over 3,000 workers and paid off executives with millions.
Jeff Weems' "legal record is one of defending BP, Enron and just about every big oil company against the working man."
Says State Rep. Kristi Thibaut was an ACORN lobbyist.
Jim Dunnam "has not lived in the district he represents for years now."
Says Rick Perry is a 25-year incumbent.
Says Democrat Hank Gilbert "has a criminal conviction for theft, has multiple years of unpaid taxes, has multiple tax liens and fines, unsafe driving convictions (and) has recently been accused of taking a bribe and is on record lying to the press this year about his criminal record."
Says Gov. Rick Perry is “by far and away the highest-paid state employee on an hourly basis.”
"In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.
"I’m running against a groundhog. He saw his shadow on the primary day, and no one has seen him since."
Says Houston’s 18th congressional district has been “gentrified” and is home to “more Anglos than African Americans.”
Says U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul is "the sixth-richest person in Congress."
Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett is “the most liberal man in the United States Congress.”
Says Gov. Rick Perry is “spending Texans’ hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV.”
On the National Animal Identification System.
"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted on a $60 million loan."
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