Rick Perry is taking his ethics lessons from Tom DeLay.
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If Tom DeLay really wants to see the source of his problems, he needs to look in the mirror. He chose this path, and now he's paying the price.
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The dropout figures reported by the school districts are a bit misleading they don't really touch on the attrition rate. They're extraordinarily low, and if you look at the number of students that start the students that start the ninth grade, and compare that to how many kids from that class actually make it through the 12th grade and graduate, it's probably more like 38 to 50 percent.
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Obviously we are going to have to raise the money necessary to get the message out to the people of Texas. In order to win, we have to get Democrats to unite and support the Democratic candidate.
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