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...answer lies inside the Republican Party of Texas, where Perry has nurtured issues dear to social conservatives but alienated the older wing by pushing a new business tax and a privatized toll road plan. Republican voters, as a result, will split their vote this year between Perry and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the 67-year-old Republican state comptroller who is running as an independent...
KINKY FRIEDMAN, independent candidate for Texas Governor, after a rival, thrice-married Carole Keeton Strayhorn, amassed at least 50,000 more signatures than he did to get on the November ballot...
...basement had been decorated with "One Tough Grandma" bumper stickers, lawn signs and T-shirts from the independent gubernatorial campaign of McClellan's mother, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. In her folksy lilt, Strayhorn had recorded a farewell greeting in which she said she had an urgent assignment...
...BRITTANY KEETON...
...election in 2006. Perry's hefty donations from construction firms have been noted by public watchdogs. Since 1997, he has received more than $1 million from highway interests, according to reports filed with the Texas ethics commission. Two Republican rivals--Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and state comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn--have opposed the tolling of existing roads. Perry now says he, too, is against conversions, but notes that those decisions are up to local authorities...