Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
Daniel Patrick Pugh, known professionally as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and actor from Mason, Ohio. He currently hosts The Dan Patrick Show broadcast on radio on Premiere Radio Networks and on television on NBCSN as well as The Audience Network for DIRECTV subscribers. He also currently co-hosts NBC's Football Night in America and serves as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He previously worked at ESPN for 18 years, where he often anchored the weeknight and...
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth15 May 1956
CityZanesville, OH
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It's a federal government responsibility. But it's a Texas problem. And we can't solve the problem with just Anglo Republicans.
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I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driver’s licenses would ensure they pass a driver’s test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance.
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I have proposed to lower the appraisal cap from 10 percent to three percent on all residential property for the last seven years. We cannot increase a person's property tax every year at three times the rate of inflation. People cannot keep up under our current appraisal system. In just about 20 years, the average home in Texas will be valued at nearly $1 million with a $30 thousand a year tax bill. We must reign in state spending which is up 45 percent in five years.
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I shared with him I understood the dilemma he was in that no matter what decision he made, his opponents would find a reason to criticize him but that if he used the surplus and increased taxes on business, not only would they criticize him, but he would risk losing his base.
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You don't have to vote for me to get breakfast. I am so humbled by the encouragement and support of the grassroots voters. I owe everything to the voters. If we win the election, it is not about me, it is about them wanting change.
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If we don't, we could end up with Democrats in the Legislature and, Heaven forbid, a liberal like Chris Bell for governor.
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We keep promoting or electing the same people and nothing changes. This whole mentality of the go along to get along in Austin is not resolving anything.
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For him to win in November in a four-person race, he must keep the base.
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It's time for outside thinking. It's time for an outside viewpoint. And it's time for the people to have a voice in Austin.
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[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.
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Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.
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They realize it's a 73 percent Republican district. What you are dealing with is two good people who realize there is no sense in keeping me from making a living. I'm the only one during the (primary) campaign who had to give up his job.
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The perception is that these kids are not waving American flags and standing for a better America. These kids are denouncing America. They're demanding that America change their laws, give them free health care, give them free education ? that it's their right.
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The purpose of the letter was to let his (Nixon's) contributors know he was 40 points behind and also to let them know that they should not participate in giving money to someone who is running an attack campaign.