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To: PROLIFE who wrote (7888)	2/27/2009 11:46:40 PM
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Perry digging for info on Hutchison 02/27/2009 Associated Press dallasnews.com Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaign has been asking Dallas City Hall for information concerning rival Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and her husband, a signal that the campaign could turn personal. Ray Hutchison is a prominent bond attorney who has represented public agencies for decades. Perry has promised a vigorous campaign if Hutchison challenges him in the March 2010 Republican primary, as she has said she will. "We're interested, as most Texans would be, in how Senator Bailout's husband's bond business has benefited from her job in D.C.," said Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner, using a nickname the campaign has applied to the senator for her support of the federal government's initial financial-industry assistance plan. Ray Hutchison told the Dallas Morning News the Perry campaign has filed such open records requests all across the state and that their fishing expedition was "stupid." He said that he has not benefited from his wife's position as senator. "I don't know what she does. I don't communicate with her staff," he said. Hutchison's campaign said the request shows Perry intends to run a negative campaign. "On the heels of some bad poll numbers, Rick Perry is taking the low road for an election that's 13 months away," said Rick Wiley, Hutchison's campaign manager. "Republicans don't want that kind of campaign, but he's already showing his hand and decided to go down that road. It's vintage Rick Perry." The Perry consultant, John Doner & Associates of Austin, declined to comment about the records request. The open records request, dated Feb. 24, asked Mayor Tom Leppert's office for copies of all documents in which Kay Bailey Hutchison's name appears with the words bond, bonds, funds, funding or project. It also asks for any letters or correspondence to Hutchison or her office seeking federal action or support and any "letters of acknowledgment and thanks." The letter was obtained by The Dallas Morning News through an open records request.