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To: combjelly who wrote (574869)	7/4/2010 2:36:01 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577194

TX-Gov: Perry ducks debate, while Greens get (temporary?) reprieve One of the earliest debates of the 2010 general election in the Lone Star State will go on as scheduled, but with one of the bigger players in the campaign represented by an empty chair. Governor Rick Perry is missing the Kerrville debate, which will be attended by both Democratic nominee Bill White and Libertarian nominee Kathie Glass. Perry is hiding behind the tissue-paper thin excuse that he is forgoing any debates because White has released only recent tax returns, and not ones from a decade ago when he served in the Clinton administration. Meanwhile, Perry caught another break, as the Green Party spoiler campaign (likely to have been orchestrated by advocates of his campaign) was given new life. The GOP-dominated state Supreme Court lifted the ban on the Green Party's candidates put into place by a lower court judge the week before. The state Supremes could still act on the matter: this order only allowed the Greens onto the ballot pending a later resolution of the suit by the state Democratic Party. The Dems, in their suit, charged that the Greens only were able to make the ballot after a massive (and illegal) in-kind contribution by Republican operatives with connections to the Perry campaign. That contribution was the financing of the petition campaign for the Greens, the cost of which topped half a million dollars.