FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Hair care businessman Farouk Shami guaranteed he'd create 100,000 jobs available to everyone if he's elected governor.
The Democrat, during last night's debate in Fort Worth, also offered free electricity and said he would enact a moratorium on the death penalty.
Three-term former Houston Mayor Bill White focused on GOP incumbent Gov. Rick Perry.
Both Democrats from Houston agreed on the importance of jobs.
White says the way to create jobs is to retrain unemployed people and ensure they have a job at the end of the training.
The question of a death penalty moratorium was a major item of disagreement, with Shami declaring "a lot of innocent people" have been put to death in Texas.
White says a blanket suspension wouldn't work. White says that would disrespect juries, victims and criminal justice where there is no question ... about the evidence.
The primary is March 2.
