{"id":20994,"date":"2010-07-19T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=20994"},"modified":"2010-07-20T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:29:27","slug":"bill-white-to-tour-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=20994","title":{"rendered":"Bill White’s Wife Talks Up Husband’s Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BillTYLER \u2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White\u2019s wife, Andrea, is talking up her husband\u2019s trip to East Texas this week. Mrs. White says the campaign is going well, but her husband is still trying to introduce himself to Texans. She says, \u201cA lot of people still haven\u2019t heard of him, so that\u2019s one reason he\u2019s working so hard \u2014 but then, he works hard all the time.\u201d Mrs. White is also promoting \u201cExpectation Graduation\u201d \u2014 a program Bill White started in his hometown of Houston, where he once served as mayor. The object is to get kids to re-enroll in school. Mrs. White explains that in September, project workers go door-to-door and ask kids who have dropped out to consider returning. So far, she says, the program has gotten over 8,000 Houston-area kids back in school \u2014 and has now spread to other towns. <\/p>\n

Bill White\u2019s East Texas swing includes stops Thursday in Tatum, Carthage, Longview and Henderson. He\u2019s set to host education town hall meetings at 2 p.m. in Carthage; 4:30 p.m. at the Greggton Community Center; and 7 p.m. at the Henderson Civic Center on Thursday. He kicks off the day at noon, when he tours Tatum Independent School District facilities before a community lunch of grilled burgers at the Tatum High School Cafeteria. On Wednesday, White plans stops in Palestine, Rusk and Jacksonville before a stop Thursday in Tyler prior to his Tatum visit. White faces Republican Rick Perry in the Texas governor\u2019s race in November. Perry has been governor since 2000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER \u2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White\u2019s wife, Andrea, is talking up her husband\u2019s trip to East Texas this week. Mrs. White says the campaign is going well, but her husband is still trying to introduce himself to Texans. She says, \u201cA lot of people still haven\u2019t heard of him, so that\u2019s one reason he\u2019s … Continue reading Bill White’s Wife Talks Up Husband’s Tour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 10:23:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20994"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21474,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994\/revisions\/21474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}