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GOP stalwart Tom Pauken to run for governor, says Texas needs “a different style of leadership”
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Mar 21, 2013 09:03am |
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| Author | Wayne Slater |
| News Date | Thursday, March 21, 2013 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former Texas Republican chairman Tom Pauken will file today for governor, challenging for the job now held by Gov. Rick Perry. Pauken is a former Reagan administration official who most recently served as Perry’s appointee to head the Texas Workforce Commission. He resigned this month and says Texas needs a new kind of leader who will revamp public education, end crony capitalism and solve problems, not divide people. Perry hasn’t said whether he will seek reelection next year. Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott is looking at the 2014 governor’s race as well.
Pauken says his candidacy is not a slap at Perry. But the decision underscores a larger, growing dissatisfaction with the Republican governor after more than a decade in office. A coaliton of legislators is pushing back against a host of Perry policies and the state cancer-fighting agency is under criminal investigation for improperly dispensing taxpayer money. |
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