Debra Medina finished third in this year’s Republican primary for governor behind incumbent Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. But the former Wharton County GOP chair spooked the two veterans with a populist campaign that in some ways paralleled the Tea Party movement, whose key element, here and elsewhere, is a deep antipathy toward incumbents of either party. Months later, she’s still hoping some of her ideas will catch traction in the remaining weeks of the election season. And while she hasn’t decided whether she’ll seek office again, she told the Tribune last week that she’s working with lawmakers to pass laws that “protect life, liberty and property.”
