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Newsletter:

"Anti-Corridor" Candidates lining up to challenge incumbents

January 20, 2006

The Blackland Coalition Patriot
Copyright 2006

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity pure wind." --George Orwell, Author

A number of Central Texas political incumbents at the state and local level are finding themselves challenged by new candidates that are running on a platform of opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor and TTC-35.

In the Governor's race (Primaries in March)

Rick Perry (R) (incumbent)
Larry Kilgore (R)
Robert "Star" Locke
Rhett Smith (R)
Felix Alvarado (D)
Chris Bell (D)
Bob Gammage (D)
Rashad Jafer (D)
James Werner (L)

Filing as "Independents"

Larry Camp
Richard "Kinky" Friedman
Carole Keeton Strayhorn

The only Governor's office candidates we have been able to con confirm their opposition to TTC-35 are Friedman and Strayhorn.

In State legislative contests, there are a number of contested incumbents as well.

State Representative District 20:
Don Gattis(R) (incumbent)
Jim Stauber (D)
Donald Zrudsky (L)


State Representative District 52:
Mike Krusee (R) (Incumbent)
Barbara Samuelson (R)
Karen Felthauser (D)
Lillian Simmons (L)

"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deciet is a revolutionary act." --George Orwell


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