Texas Gov. ends presidential bid

Mary Whitfill Features Editor Rick Perry, 11 year Texas Gov. is expected to leave the race for the GOP nomination on Thursday, two days before the South Carolina primary. Perry will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. central time. Perry almost quit the race after his embarrassing 5th place finish in Iowa, but decided to give it one more go, skipping the New Hampshire primaries in which he received less than one percent of votes. Perry’s drop is expected to prove helpful to Newt Gingrich who has been excelling in recent opinion surveys. Perry first entered the race with high numbers in polls but those numbers quickly fell after a series of missteps and…

Perry burns KBH, Medina in primary

  Incumbant governor Rick Perry won yesterday’s Republican primary in a landslide over competition Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Debra Medina. Perry defeated his opponents by 21 points, a surprisingly large margin considering his lukewarm popularity in 2006 and as governor. Hutchinson will face off against Democrat Bill White, governor of Houston, in November’s general election. Read more about yesterday’s primary here.

Seitz gives the low-down on gubernatorial candidates

by Blake Seitz Sports Editor With the primaries for the upcoming gubernatorial race just around the corner on March 2, now is the right time for concerned citizens to know a little about the candidates they’re voting for. I’ve compiled information on the five front-runners—3 Republicans and 2 Democrats—in an effort to make your time at the polls that much easier. Rick Perry We’ll start with the obvious: Republican Rick Perry, our current Governor, is fighting to secure his third term in our state’s highest office. Perry is campaigning, like most of the candidates, on economic development. His primary focuses if reelected would be to create jobs, reduce taxes (especially the corporate property tax) and…