AUSTIN, Texas -- Former Houston Mayor Bill White believes his general election campaign is getting a lot of support from an unlikely source.
White, a Democrat, was in Austin Thursday morning speaking at a public affairs forum sponsored by the Texas Tribune.
White told KVUE News many former Kay Bailey Hutchison supporters are calling his campaign saying they plan to back him in the general election.
"Its not taken much. A lot are coming over to our side, so right now were just answering the telephone because people believe it's time to move on," he said.
White trails republican Gov. Rick Perry in the polls by about five percent. Still, many democrats believe this is their best shot at re-claiming the Governor's Mansion since the 1990's.
Said White of Perry’s narrow but outright primary victory: "Forty-nine percent of the people in your own party want somebody else for governor when you’ve been there for nine years – what do you think it shows?"
