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Every gun show I've been to lately has a Median booth, with bumper stickers.

...and the very bottom wage earners pay "Negative Income Tax" aka Federal Welfare

I'm good with that.
Point is, no one else is even talking about it being an issue.

Her primary issue is that taxation of real estate includes the ability of the state to confiscate real estate for non-payment of taxes.
(That is not true in all other states). As long as the state can take your $200,000 home for a tax debt of $10,000, you do not really own that property.
She proposes to make that a total non-issue by funding government differently. Her proposal of a sales tax would fall on all citizens equally, just as government services are supposed to.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

Mike from Texas wrote:Medina is even more pro gun than Perry if that is the only thing driving your decision.

You have no idea how inaccurate this statement is.

Charles, I think we would all like to hear you elaborate on that.

Your property taxes may be controlled by locals, but you don't have much to say about it, and those locals likely don't share your concerns. The Appraisal Districts have removed tax decisions from local elected officials and let a faceless bureaucracy do their dirty work. That AD has one goal: Maximize income and increase it every year, to satisfy the demand from their constituency (City Halls) for more and more of our money.
It's a racket, and there are already people at work to abolish it. Thankfully, my rep is Vicki Truitt and she is at the front of this effort.

Medina may not be able to win - we'll see - but I hope she at least scores a close 2nd to Perry in the primary. If nothing else it will pointedly remind Mr. Perry that millions of Texans demand fiscally responsible, conservative government 100% of the time, and not just when an election is approaching.

Ultimately I realize I will probably be voting for Rick Perry in November. But the Trans Texas Corridor was to Texas what BHOs Health Care bill was to the Nation. I will not forgive Perry's attempt to "nationalize" millions of acres of private property to profit a foreign corporation.

I sure do hate gritting my teeth when I cast my vote.

That one screw-up is a drop in the bucket compared to the track record of the other two Republican candidates. She doesn't have the built-in spin machine that comes so natural to the lifers.

Medina is not afraid to say many of our present problems come from government. I don't care if she has a zero chance of making it. I am going to vote for her, send her (more) money, and advertise for her, because she is standing up against the political machine that is driving this state and this country to the brink of tyranny.
A few years ago Jesse Ventura shook up Minnesota and the whole country by proving that a determined outsider can make change happen within the system.
We have to do the same thing in Texas, or we will have more of the same bull we have been getting.
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That pretty well describes Texas politics.
If we can put Debra Medina in the Governor's Mansion this year, then there is hope.

Call her office and ask for a yard sign.
I don't do bumper stickers, but I have two Medina stickers