My Thoughts on the Primary Races for Texas Governor

I’m giving my thoughts on the current major party candidates for Texas Governor (mainly from a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and a libertarian). Please forgive any incoherence or typos, I’m on muscle relaxers for my injured shoulder and having problems typing.

Republican candidates:

1. Current Governor Rick Perry – Fiscally he has been OK. Unlike many states in the USA, the Texas government is not really having a problem with the current economic problem causing tax income shortfalls. This can be partially attributed to Texas not having an income tax. However, the man is in love with selling our highways to foreign companies so they can build toll roads. He also tried force a Texas girls to get a new vaccine produced by a company that he has close relations with. All-in-all, I think he is more likely to win than any of the other candidates. In my opinion he is a symbol of the Big  Business/Big Government Republican part of today. I would like to see him go.
2. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison – A tiny bit more centrist than Perry, she is what I call Perry lite. She may talk about supporting the Second Amendment, but she has said that she supports a renewed assault weapons bill. However, she does not ignore her constituents. Her actual voting record is different than this statement. This means I can’t really trust her. This means I will not vote for her.
3. Debra Medina – She is a newcomer to running for public office. However, she was her county’s Republican Committee Chair. She has interesting ideas about reducing/eliminating property taxes. She has also stated in the past that she would like to see Texas secede from the union. I will not vote for a secessionist. However, I do hope she will inspire the party to move back toward a small business and small government stance.

Democratic candidates:

1. Former Houston Mayor Bill White – I don’t know much about him. I do (sorta) remember a news story where he wanted the Houston Police Department to arrest anyone carrying a firearm in their vehicle without a concealed carry license after the Texas legislature made it legal. Also, he joined Mayors Against Illegal Guns (an anti-gun group that seeks to make civilian ownership of guns illegal). As you can already guess, I won’t be voting for him.
2. Farouk Shami – This is a very successful businessman who states on his website he supports the Second Amendment. I really can’t find much real information on the man. I doubt I would vote for him.
3. I see that others are listed as running as Democrats, but can’t find any information.

I’m not really looking at the third party candidates. Depending on who gets the major party nominations, I will probably vote for the Libertarian party candidate as a protest vote. Can someone actually give me candidates I would be happy to vote for? For a little bit, it looked like the Democrats might have had someone. But, they talked him and Kinky Friedman out of running for Governor.