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Fallout of [TX] school bill's failure
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Jun 01, 2005 09:29am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - Houston Chronicle |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 1, 2005 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By CLAY ROBISON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
AUSTIN - It's no secret that Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst would like to be governor or a U.S. senator someday, and those aspirations can't be separated from his work as the Texas Senate's presiding officer.
However, Tom Craddick, his counterpart on the other side of the Capitol, envisions no statewide race. He seems content to remain speaker of the Texas House and, as one legislator put it, Midland's "emperor for life."
In the eyes of the public, both may share in the blame for the Legislature's failure to overhaul the school finance system and cut school property taxes. But they don't share the same potential political liability.
If there is any ultimate voter anger, Dewhurst, like Gov. Rick Perry, is potentially more vulnerable. That may be one reason Dewhurst, along with Perry, scrambled to find an 11th-hour deal on a school bill and why Dewhurst was quick to accuse Craddick of rejecting it. |
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