Bill White gets Democratic endorsement with low-key, reasoned approach to problem solving

[ananda]

http://www.statesman.com/news/elections/bill-white-gets-democratic-endorsement-with-low-key-220269.html

White brings an impressive resume that includes business leadership, a stint as a top official in the Clinton administration's Energy Department and a successful tenure as mayor of Houston — a city as politically and ethnically diverse as our state.

White also brings a low-key, thoughtful approach that seems like just what Texas needs now. There's nothing like high-decibel rhetoric to get folks excited around election time. But today's problems — education, transportation, health care, jobs, a massive projected state budget shortfall, etc. — are best solved by thoughtful deliberation, not overheated rhetoric.

It's also not the time or place for know-it-all politicians who think they have all the solutions and can single-handedly put them in place.

"I'm not perfect," White told the American-Statesman editorial board. "I'm not as mediagenic as some. But I do know how to bring people together to get things done. I do know how to do that. That's what Texas needs right now. There was a day in Texas — and it did exist and I was here — when the leadership was more bipartisan in its approach to state problems."

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I like Bill White. What a tonic compared to the strident
extremism of Rick Perry and the teapartiers. Palin was
just here screaming and thumping for Perry. Ick.

Go White!