All eyes on Perry

As the end gets closer the more the bashing between candidates gets sillier and sillier. I was visiting a blog in Burnt Orange Report and ran across that some blogs posted by Mr. Phillip Martin. I've read a few of his blogs and it seems he is more on the Democrat side of things. If his blogs mention Rick Perry in them usually its something negative. In a blog posted a few days about titled Rick Perry Rap Video: "Spending All the Taxpayer's Money On My Mansion" there is a very lyrically repetitive song which features Mr. Rick Perry as a rapper flaunting how much money he spends on his mansion. I thought it was very funny but truly useless information in my opinion. He mentions how Mr. Perry spends 10K a months for rent on his mansion, I really don't see what the big deal is with that. He is the governor of Texas ladies and gentlemen. He deserves to live in something nice, and to tell you the truth 10k a months is not that much money. "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR." I liked one of the comments left on his page about Sen. Rodney Ellis and Sen. Carlos Uresti and how they each have 3 district offices fully staffed. That alone surpasses the money being spent for Mr. Rick Perry's mansion. I really do think they need to lay off on the money spent on the governors mansion its symbolic and a historical part of Texas government. But for kicks and giggles here is the video enjoy. Rick Perry - "Money On My Mansion"

In the lead once again

I've been snooping around for some of the information on the polls and I have ran into a few of them mentioning that Mr. Perry refuses to debate with Mr. White. In an article in the Austin American Statesman posted by the Editorial Board of the Statesman, they seem to be a bit upset at the fact that Mr. Perry will not debate Mr. White. I believe with all the negative news that we received about Mr. Perry it is in his best interest to not debate Mr. White, I do think Mr. Perry and his political advisors are very good at what they do to gain control of these polls. As well you will come to see how they mention that he never states anything negative about Mr. White. I think this another good approach at making him seem like he is running a positive campaign even though he leaves the dirty work to his staff leaving his hands clean of all the bashing. If you are such a "BAD" governor as they say you are and people state all of the obvious and you still get re-elected than you deserve it. This is another very good point why I think it is very important for citizens of their state to be more familiar about their local government.

Texas education funding by federal government DENIED

It seems from my understanding that the federal government has denied Texas an education fund allocated to education across the nation. States had to submit an application to get part of a 10 billion dollar budget that was set aside for education by Congress. Texas submitted an application for 830 million. Then was denied because our fearless leader and governor Rick Perry could not commit that education spending would stay consistent for the following 3 years. I ask my self the question "Why not?" and "Who ells is reaching into the cookie jar?". Now Mr. Perry and Mr. Doggett are pointing fingers at each other playing the blame game. There were a few districts that were not depending on this federal funding (one of them being AISD) but as stated in the The Austin Chronicle they did have an outline for this funding. Never the less this had a major impact on other school districts that were depending on this education fund. All in all the bottom line is that this will affect the children more than anyone ells. They state that this is not permanent and that we can still get this money but we wouldn't get a penny until fiscal year of 2012. If thats the case its just as bad as not getting it period. Theres nothing that can be done at this point other than to try and get the funds in fiscal year of 2012, and because of that I strongly believe some one needs to be held accountable.