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The real campaign issue
Some of the 2,000 to 3,000 Texas Realtors who came from around the state to gather on the south steps of the Capitol this morning to rally for Gov. Rick Perry’s proposed tax plan had apparently never seen the governor in person.
As the famously well-coiffed chief walked into the south entrance of the Capitol after leading Texas Association of Realtors in a cheerleading session, two female Realtors remarked on Perry’s chances of batting down gubernatorial challengers such as independent Kinky Friedman.
“That’s a cute little governor we’ve got here,� said Pamela Anders of Keller Williams Metropolitan in Houston after Perry passed within inches of her. “Who needs Kinky when we’ve got him? (Kinky’s) cool, but he’s not cute.�
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