Kathy Walt
Kathy Walt
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As the governor has said, once he has a bill or bills on his desk that substantially reduce property taxes and reform the business franchise tax, he'll open the call to other issues.
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There's been a whole lot of disaster planning that has occurred since 1998, and what the governor has directed . . . is to pre-position assets, firefighters and equipment in location so they can be moved as quickly as possible to areas that have the need.
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Her work is so shoddy and incompetent, she didn't even know how to track payments.
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He certainly is aware of who we hired. But decisions are made more at the staff level.
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He established the council, as he said at the time, to get recommendations to enhance public confidence in the criminal justice system. He's aware that (eyewitness identification) is one of the issues they're looking at.
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I don't know of a single teacher in Texas who wouldn't welcome the possibility of getting a raise of $10,000, and if the head of a labor union wants to demean and diminish the hard work and the value of teachers, then he or she should be ashamed.
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It's a little early to know what will be in the 2007 budget proposal from Gov. Perry. It's a concept the governor supports and issues he believes are important to that sector of the Texas economy.
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It's way too early to determine the long-term impact, financial or otherwise.
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I don't think the e-mails quite capture the intensity of those moments. In addition to e-mail traffic, there were phone calls going on. It was kind of multitasking to the nth degree. Tensions were high. Everybody knew what was at stake.
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She will say or do anything to stop a property tax cut for Texans in order to advance her political agenda. No one has elected her to provide legal opinions.
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Governor Perry has been the most open book in terms of a long-standing history of releasing his complete tax returns for years so the public is able to totally examine his sources of income.
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They were priorities last June, and they remain priorities today.
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The governor didn't make his decision on who to appoint until just recently.
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The governor has indicated that his primary interest and focus right now will be on addressing the Supreme Court ruling.