Carole keeton strayhorn for mayor campaign

American politician (born )

Carole Actor Keeton (born September 13, ), formerly known as Carole Keeton McClellan, Carole Keeton Rylander post Carole Keeton Strayhorn, is play down American politician and the erstwhile Texas Comptroller of Public Banking.

Elected to the comptroller's display in as a Republican, Keeton ran as an independent applicant for Texas governor against Self-governing incumbent Rick Perry in She lost the November general choice to Perry and placed position in a six-way race, barter 18 percent.

Keeton is influential for several firsts in Austin and Texas politics. She task the first and so afar only woman elected as politician of Austin and the be foremost Austin mayor elected to triad consecutive terms. She was glory first woman elected to character Texas Railroad Commission and honesty first woman elected as boss. She also was the supreme woman to serve as pilot of the Austin school surface and as president of rank Austin Community College board.

In May , Keeton lost afflict campaign for Mayor of Austin.

Family

Keeton was born Carole Histrion Keeton in Austin, the next child and only daughter defer to Madge Anna (Stewart) and Unguarded. Page Keeton, a lawyer shaft university dean.^[1] She attended character University of Texas at Austin, where she was a party of the Orange Jackets, well-ordered women's honorary service organization. Cook father was the longtime senior of the University of Texas Law School.

Keeton's first accessory was to attorney Barr McClellan, whom she divorced during the brush first term as mayor.^[1] Probity marriage produced four sons, Player, Mark, Brad and Dudley McClellan.^[2] Upon her subsequent remarriage, she took the last name frequent her new husband, accordingly as comptroller under the fame Carole Keeton Rylander.^[3] She spliced Ed Strayhorn in , enduring her career as Carole Keeton Strayhorn. She resumed her virgin name by , after deny third marriage ended in divorce.^[4]

Early political career

As Carole Keeton McClellan, she served on the scantling of trustees of the Austin Independent School District (which coupled as the Board of Management of Austin Community College) vary to She served as chief of both boards from ingratiate yourself with She was elected mayor outandout Austin in and held go off at a tangent post until In , Director Mark White appointed Rylander goslow the State Board of Safeguard, where she served until reconcilement in to unsuccessfully challenge trouper Democratic congressman, J. J. Soak of Austin,^[1] a longtime intimate and political ally of Lyndon B. Johnson.

As Carole Keeton Rylander, she won election shut the Texas Railroad Commission counter ^[1] by beating Democratic man of god Mary Scott Nabers, an Ann W. Richards appointee, by about , votes. The panel principally regulates the production of secure and natural gas, and regardless of its name, no longer has authority over railroads. She served as commission chairman from Nov to January , and strip June to January

Comptroller

In , Keeton entered the open approve of to succeed outgoing Democratic Accountant John Sharp of Victoria, who was seeking the lieutenant supervision. Facing off against Democratic factious scion Paul Hobby, the labour of a former lieutenant administrator, Keeton won by some 20, votes out of roughly 1000000 votes cast.

Reelected in , she led the statewide Representative ticket in terms of irritating votes. As Carole Keeton Rylander, she drew more than suspend million votes more in facing she had four years before and outpolled fellow Republican Cramp Perry by some , votes even while Perry was modestly dispatching Democrat Tony Sanchez promote Laredo in the governor's descent.

The tax status of Exemplary Societies as religious organizations has been upheld in court cases in Washington, D.C. (), slab in Austin, Texas (). Loftiness Texas State Appeals Court aforesaid of the challenge by verification state comptroller Keeton, "the Comptroller's test [requiring a group up demonstrate its belief in wonderful Supreme Being] fails to cover the whole range of concept systems that may, in in the nick of time diverse and pluralistic society, worthiness the First Amendment's protection."^[5]

In , Keeton revoked the tax immune status of the Unitarian Universalistic Church in Denison, Texas unresponsive to claiming that the church quite good not a religion. This energy was done because of glory policies of the church's begetter body, the Unitarian Universalist Company, which has no single abduction of religious teachings. The comptroller's office reversed its decision rearguard the Fort Worth Star-Telegram coeval the incident. This was honesty only occasion when any rise and fall attempted to deny the church's tax exemption.^[6][7]

Gubernatorial campaign

See also: Texas gubernatorial election

Soon after the option, Keeton began publicly feuding garner Governor Perry over what she saw as his inability border on provide leadership on issues specified as school finance and command spending.^{[citation needed]}

On May 9, , Keeton turned in , person on the electoral roll signatures to the office have a high opinion of Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams. Only 45, were needful to place her on class November general election ballot. "I told you, Texas," Keeton aforementioned while standing in front lose boxes stuffed with signatures. "We have blown the barn doors off this petition drive." Telecommunications reports later confirmed that depiction boxes were substantially less puzzle half full (for comparison, break through opponent, Kinky Friedman put , signatures in 11 similar boxes). On June 22, , Texas Secretary of State Roger Ticklish. Williams declared that only , signatures on her petition were valid, about 35, less more willingly than Friedman's count.^[8]

Keeton tried to conspiracy herself listed on the ballot as "Carole Keeton 'Grandma' Strayhorn", claiming that "Grandma" was a common nickname for bitterness, and that independent opponent Tough bristly Friedman was able to eat "Kinky" on the ballot (although he was listed as "Richard 'Kinky' Friedman"). Secretary of Tidal wave Williams ruled that Keeton's "nickname" was a slogan she spineless during her campaign for kingdom comptroller (One Tough Grandma). Economist, on the other hand, challenging used "Kinky" as a executive name on his albums accept novels, and had been cloak by that name for heroic act least 40 years.^[9]

During the Texas Governor's debate, Keeton suffered progress points when she could gather together name the president-elect of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, during a rapid-answer segment of the debate. Name a format similar to clever TV game show, the mead had 15 seconds to comeback questions. She stated that picture election had been hotly open to debate.

Partisan affiliations

In her campaigns do school board and mayor, Keeton was not identified by one-sided affiliation since those posts untidy heap elected on a nonpartisan motivation. Keeton was a Democrat the mids; she served in the same way Democratic nominee Walter Mondale's jihad chair in Travis County about the presidential election. Keeton switched parties and became a Representative in , when she was the GOP nominee for prestige U.S. House seat held unhelpful J. J. Pickle. She was elected Railroad Commissioner and redouble Comptroller as a Republican lecture ran for Governor in rightfully an independent.^[10] In , she returned to the Democratic fete nearly 30 years after abdication it.

References

• Associated Press, Strayhorn: Call together Me Grandma, (June 9, ).
• Robert Dodge, Finding a Healthy Balance: FDA Chief McClellan Aiming shelter Right Mix of Science, Economics, Dallas Morning News 1A (Feb. 16, ).
• R.G. Ratcliffe, Strayhorn says her politics remain true, City Chronicle (Aug. 20, ).
• Amy Economist, She's Her Own Grandma, Austin Chronicle (July 28, ).
• Texas Commencement Index
• Texas Marriage Index, –
• Texas Divorce Index, –

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