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Governor falls in home stretch
Gov. Rick Perry and Humpty Dumpty have something in common: Both fell.
While Dumpty fell off a wall, Perry tumbled while running Sunday in the Capitol 10,000.
“He did get tangled up with another runner and did fall,” said Perry spokeswoman Kathy Walt. She said the governor wasn’t hurt seriously but he did suffer from “just a little road rash. I know it knocked the wind out of him momentarily.”
Walt said she didn’t know if Perry finished the race.
Austin writer and marketing consultant Maria Arrellaga, who ran in the Cap 10 near Perry and witnessed the spill, said she saw Perry fall on Riverside Drive about 40 yards from the finish.
“People gasped,” Arrellaga said. She said Perry was flanked by three handlers who were all wearing sunglasses.
“They all looked alike; they reminded me of those guys from the Matrix,” she said. She added that the three handlers quickly got Perry back on his feet.
Arrellaga said Perry fell after the handlers urged him to pick up the pace.
“Seriously, these guys that were pacing him, it was an all-out sprint,” she said. “You could tell he was struggling.”
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