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You Have aVoice

Texas Gubernatorial Race 2010

TEXAS IS #

Texas ranks number 1 in high school dropout rate

Texas ranks number 1 in uninsured children

Texas ranks number 1 in adult illiteracy

1 in 5 of all Texans are uninsured

The rate of Teen Pregnancy per 1,000 girls age 15-19 was greater than 50%

More than 25% of Texans are considered obese

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Data compiled from measureofamerica.com and texastribune.org

since 2000

RICK Perry

•In 2003 Rick Perry introduced tuitionderegulation as a way for Texas PublicUniversities to combat budget cuts fromthe Governor’s office. Since, tuition hasrisen more than 92% for the Texasresident student.

Rick perry

In 2008, the Texas Governor’sMansion was set ablaze

Luckily no one was hurt…..Exceptthe Texas Taxpayers, who willhave forked over more than$360,000 in ‘rent for Rick’while the Mansion is in repair.For his trouble, the Governormust endure the hardship whileliving in his taxpayer funded

rent-mansion. Rent for Rick’smansion you ask? Only

$9,000 a month.

Yes, Thousand.

Not only rent, but taxpayers have to pay tokeep the lights on for good ole’ Rick. Thatand the costs to get the digs “livable” forthe Perry’s have totaled more than$197,000 since April 2008.

Yes, Thousand.

Information compiled from politifact.com

BILLWHITE

Son of twoSanAntonioPublicSchoolTeachers

AttendedHarvard on anAmerican Legionscholarship andlaw school atthe University ofTexas

Entrepreneurand CivicLeader

Former DeputySecretary ofEnergy

3 Term Mayorof Houston

•As a 3 term Mayor of Houston Bill White was re-elected with 91% and 86% of the popular vote

•Under Mayor Bill White, Houston led all American cities in job growth, creating more employmentopportunities than 37 other states combined.

•Under Mayor Bill White, Houston became the model in municipal pension funds for the Nation.

•Bill and his wife Andrea created Expectation Graduation, a program that walks Houstonneighborhoods to bring kids back into the public education system. A program that has seen morethan 19,000 Houston drop-outs return to school and earn a High School diploma, and counting.

•Transformed Houston, the largest electricity user in the region, into the #1 public purchaser ofrenewable energy in the Nation.

•With Bill White as mayor, Houston became #1 in total parkland acreage among the nation’s largest10 cities.

•In response to Houston’s crime level dropping to 25 year lows, Mayor Bill Whitereceived the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Director’s Community Leadership Award

•Bill White’s compassion and rapid response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and NewOrleans resident earned him the John F. Kennedy Foundation’s Profiles In Courage Award

•As Deputy Secretary of Energy, Bill White spearheaded initiatives that saved AmericanTaxpayers more than $1 billion in management reforms.

•Due in part to Mayor White’s Returning Veterans Initiative, the Department of the Armyrecognized Houston as one of the most military friendly cities to live and work in.

"Mayor White has deftly steered Houston through both fiscal and tropical storms. Hissuccessor will have a tough act to follow.“ –Houston Chronicle"In time of both crisis and calm, White, a former business executive...is a coolpragmatist who wants results rather than excuses."–Governing Magazine naming Bill White a 2007 Public Official of the Year

Texas Deserves agovernor who valuesfamily, education, andholds a vision for texasas an american leader.

RICk Perry

You Have a Voice

On November 2, 2010 use your vote to take back the Governor’sMansion for Texas. Take back Texas’ public universities from thestrangling economy. Take back your state from someone whodemands luxury and hand it over to someone who will work for youand every other Texan.

Vote for bill white

Not this clown