I know a lot of people (including some Democrats) who think that Kay Bailey Hutchison would make a great governor, but this should remind us all that she only seems reasonable by contrast to coiffed secessionist Rick Perry:
Add a new item to the long list of political shenanigans that backfire once discovered. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) has decided to run for Texas governor against incumbent Rick Perry, and her new campaign website contained hidden text that read "rick perry gay." The resulting flap led to the firing of the Web development firm involved, drew heated responses from Perry’s office, and (perhaps worst of all) saw Hutchison’s campaign website yanked from Google’s search index.
Texas newspapers uncovered the hidden text last week. The "rick perry gay" reference was one of only thousands of phrases tucked into the source code for Hutchison’s site, apparently to help draw search engine traffic.
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Whatever the reason for it, the Hutchison campaign blamed the vendor who developed the site and removed the Perry reference. On July 30, Google removed the campaign’s site from its search index as a penalty for using more than 2,000 hidden terms. Yahoo then followed suit.
Sadly, short of an intellectual revelution (about time, given the youth of our country compared to the world @ large) the politics of this country will only serve the elite……Where’s our PAC?????
these are the reasons i’ve given up on caring about state politics. i pay attention to local (Dallas) and national. the state shit just makes me crazy.