FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas – Republican candidates for Texas governor worked the campaign trail across the state on the eve of early voting for the primaries.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison greeted people with smiles and handshakes at events near the Galleria, but if it was questions you wanted answered her handlers wouldn't allow it.
"I am running for governor because we need leadership in the State Capitol, leadership that will stand up for Texas values, not the values of lobbyists and inside Austin people," she said while giving a prepared speeches to crowds of cheering supporters.
When it was over her aides whisked her away, saying she had a busy schedule and a plane to catch.
Meanwhile, in Plano, Gov. Rick Perry spoke at a town hall meeting and later he responded to questions about the latest poll conducted for several different Texas newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News and the Houston Chronicle, that showed Perry with 45 percent of the vote, Hutchison with 29 percent and Debra Medina with 17 percent.
"Polls are polls, they are a snapshot in time and at the end of the day we just go work and do as much work as we can and hopefully that will be the appropriate amount," Perry said.
Also, for the first time on camera, Perry responded to comments Medina made last week when she was questioned the U.S. government’s possible involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"Frankly she needs to apologize and the idea that you can't clearly say ‘absolutely not, the federal government had nothing to do with that,’ and people that would even entertain that is way outside of the mainstream," he said.
Medina, who later came out to set the record straight, took her campaign to the Internet Monday night, hosting a town hall on her campaign Web site.
