TEA PARTY CANDIDATE DEBRA MEDINA ON TRACK IN TEXAS GOVERNOR’S RACE

Last week a major public opinion research firm based in North Carolina posed the heretofore unthinkable question: “Could the Republican primary for governor in Texas end up in a runoff between Rick Perry … and Debra Medina?”

This was astonishing. Debra Medina, a 47-year-old registered nurse who owns a medical consulting and billing service, is a political neophyte with less than a million dollars for a war chest, who has dared challenge Gov. Rick Perry the longest-serving governor in the state’s history (two terms, going for an unprecedented third), and three-term U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican gubernatorial primary on March 2.

“Think about it,” Medina’s campaign staff declared in a media release. “A nurse, mom and small-business owner from little ole Wharton, Texas, taking up a political battle against a senior Senator and sitting Governor with all of their millions of dollars. A David up against two Goliaths – and we remember how that story turned out, right?”

The grassroots activist and former GOP county chair, is a fast-rising star in the tea party movement, the 10th Amendment movement, and similar efforts aimed at limiting the scope of the federal government and restoring state and personal sovereignty. Conservative/libertarian, strongly pro-life (she opposes not only abortion but euthanasia and the Texas “futile care law”), a property rights advocate who seeks to eliminate the property tax, solid on gun rights – Medina is repeatedly described as a “real deal” conservative.

She and her husband Noe Medina have been married 28 years; their two children whom they home schooled are now grown.

Until recently Medina was regarded by establishment Republicans as a “fringe” candidate who at worst could pull conservative votes from Perry, forcing a runoff between him and Hutchison.

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