Dallas, Texas – Tom Pauken filed with the Texas Ethics Commission to run for Texas Governor in the 2014 Republican Primary. Pauken said “Texas needs a different style of leadership—one that brings Texans together to find common sense solutions to problems related to education, health care, transportation, water, and other important issues facing our state.”
Pauken added, “As my former boss Ronald Reagan liked to say, ‘they called it the Reagan Revolution…. For me it always seemed more like a rediscovery of our values and common sense.’ We need that kind of spirit these days.”
A native Texan, Tom Pauken enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967 and served as a military intelligence