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Showing posts with label Texas Governors Race 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas Governors Race 2010. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Debra Medina Firing Up the Race for Texas Governor


The following is written from The Guardian's, socialist and statist perspective, but nevertheless offers an interesting look at Debra Medina who could upset the Texas gubernatorial race and is a promising new figure in the movement to restore the United States Constitution.

Debra Medina of the Tea Party movement is making a Sarah Palin-like impact with policies stressing property rights and gun ownership

Debra Medina

Texas Republican candidate Debra Medina at a press conference in Houston this month.
Photograph: Pat Sullivan/AP

Lytle is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of town, one of hundreds that dot the vast flat ranchlands of southern Texas. A smear of houses by the main highway between San Antonio and Laredo. Population: 2,383. The first streets only got paved here in the years after the second world war. A sewage system took a little longer, not being built until the 1960s. In short, Lytle, Texas, has never been big enough to have much impact on the politics of the Lone Star state. And few Texas politicians have ever paid much attention to it.

Until Debra Medina, that is. When Medina breezed into Lytle's community hall the locals found themselves confronted with a Texan version of Sarah Palin. She wore a sharp scarlet skirt suit, librarian-style glasses and a puffed-up hairdo. More than 60 Lytle residents had gathered to meet her, a hefty turnout on a weekday at 11am for a Republican primary election in the race to be Texas governor. Medina has become a political phenomenon in Texas. Emerging as a genuine star of the rightwing populist Tea Party movement, she delivers a fiery message of slashing taxes and the abolition of almost all forms of federal government, and issues dire warnings that President Obama is taking America down a slippery slope to Soviet-style communism.

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