Rick specifically not seeking newspaper endorsements...

Jason Embry has the scoop... apparently Rick's peeps have made the choice to not waste time on those lengthy closed door editorial board meetings all over the state (link). Excerpt follows...

In a major rebuke to the state’s media establishment, Gov. Rick Perry will not seek the endorsement of any Texas newspapers before the March 2 Republican primary.

“In the final weeks of the campaign, a better use of the governor’s time is to continue traveling the state talking to Texans about the issues that are important to them,” said Perry spokesman Mark Miner.

I think Rick is definitely taking this social media thing to the next level... his campaign must feel like getting an endorsement of a newspaper hurts more than it helps... not to mention the drain on time courting these peeps and trying to suck up to them... only to get burned by them over and over with false fact checks, biased reporting, and overt editorializing on page A1 top of the fold...

Think about it from Rick's perspective... you preside over a state that is by all accounts very successful from a stage budgetary perspective... you voluntarily open up your office's accounting books and push for unprecedented transparency even earning the #1 ranking in government transparency from a national watch dog group... your state is one of the best states from the stand point of jobs and the economy.... and all the msm wants to do is give really factually incorrect and liberally slanted supposed fact checks... or talk about how a confessed and convicted murderer was really innocent and Rick is trying to cover the whole thing up... or how a few people out of hundreds who signed up on Rick's web site to recruit voters possessed marijuana or drove drunk years ago...

I too would say screw them.

Kay's peeps are taking it one at a time, and not saying what their newspaper endorsement strategy is just yet. Excerpt follows...

Jennifer Baker, a spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, was noncommittal about whether Hutchison would sit with editorial boards, saying, “There are hundreds of newspapers in Texas. We are reviewing each request as it comes to us.”

I hope this is a trend that catches on all over... there is no reason for conservative Republican politicians to treat traditional media peeps like they are the be all end all of the information world... if all Republicans basically boycotted the main stream media the coverage might be extra bad for a little while but eventually it would break that oligopoly up and hasten the demise... which is happening anyway... of those antiquated liberal mouthpieces...