Strayhorn Beats Bell on Another Issue

Burnt Orange Report, Capitol Annex, and Common Sense all have posts up about Democrat Chris Bell's vision to raise teacher salaries by $6,000 (aka raise taxes).

The BOR overlooked Carole Keeton Strayhorn's separate plan. Undercutting Bell, Strayhorn said "teachers should get a four-thousand dollar raise in next month's special session on school funding."

Say what you want about Ms.Strayhorn, but her campaign's messaging is genius. She keeps her "moderate" appearance by still calling for a raise in teacher salary, but in true Texas fashion she one-ups Bell to the voters by seeming more fiscally conservative.

With polls continuing to show Ms.Strayhorn a closer second(31%) to Perry than ultra-lefty Chris Bell(13%) , I am surprised that Bell continues to attack just at Perry when it is infact Strayhorn that is eating away at his base.

I don't think it would be strange is Friedman actually outperforms Bell in November.