Chris Bell
Chris Bell
Robert Christopher "Chris" Bellis an American politician, attorney, and former journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. Bell served five years on the Houston City Council from 1997 to 2001, followed by one term in the United States House of Representatives from Texas' 25th Congressional District in Houston from 2003 to 2005. He was then the Democratic nominee in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1959
CountryUnited States of America
(Perry) has made an awful mess of things. He's proven he can't lead a silent prayer.
Perry has made an awful mess of things and has proven he can't even lead a silent prayer. If we're going to find solutions, we have to elect a governor who has the courage of his convictions.
By raiding the surplus to pay for a property-tax cut, Perry is proposing a plan that is still $1 billion short of inadequate because it forgets one very important thing: schools.
Fair play should be a minimal expectation, and the ""ethics truce"" prevented Congress from meeting even that low standard.
This is exactly the boost my campaign needed going forward as we begin to climb the higher mountain.
It seems to me it was more an election-year ploy than really a serious effort to stem the flow of immigrants into Texas.
Penn State is Penn State, and I like what they stand for, ... I didn't want to miss their climb to the top.
That's when we got hit with the highest tuition increases in the country. At A&M-Texarkana, tuition and fees went up 48 percent. Students are now paying an extra $1,030 a year because of Rick Perry's tuition deregulation, which has been an absolute failure.
So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
I don't pretend to be perfect; I've made mistakes just like everybody else. When I have, I've owned up to the mistakes and moved forward.
They're not going to simply work here for a couple of years, then sign up to be deported back home. It hasn't happened in our history, and it's laughable to think it's going to happen.
Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.
It's shaping up to be basically a reorganization of his campaign in a nonprofit structure.
For all intents and purposes, Mr. DeLay has set the agenda for the country at least for the last four years, and probably for longer than that.