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Picking up the GOP's new strategy, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has refused to debate his Democratic opponent Bill White because White would not release his personal income tax returns for three years in the 1990s. Despite the fact that White paid no personal income taxes in 1995 and did release some tax returns... Because of this impasse, Texas may not see a general election gubernatorial debate "for the first time since 1990."
...Perry has also refused to meet with newspaper editorial boards, where political candidates answer questions from Texas editorial writers and editors in an effort to win the newspaper's endorsement and inform voters of their positions. Yesterday, Texas newspaper Tyler Morning Telegraph — the paper he once described as his "favorite" in the state and "the most conservative" — lambasted Perry for his "unacceptable and undeserved" position of "silence."
