Where does Rick Perry stand on conservative issues?

6/29/11 | Self

[zerosix]

I've heard any number of issues discussed relating to the excitement on a possible Perry Prez candidacy but wish to know much more about him (is he supported by the TEA Party, for instance?)

[zerosix]

Listening to Mark Davis, yesterday on Rush, I thought I heard him state that in the TX Gov. race, the fact that he stood for the "Dream Act" of some sort to give children of illegals or illegal youth themselves, access to in-state tuition as well as other sympathetic stances on illegal aliens, as well as being a supporter of the trans-national highway from Mex. through U.S.

Can anyone enlighten me on these as well as any other RINO-leaning stances Perry might hold.

I do know that the Bushies aren't Perry fans yet the big boys in the GOP are pushing him (as they did George W) to get into the race.

[deport]

I suspect a keyword search or even a title search on Perry will get you a lot of reading material on various aspects.

[GeronL]

Perry is amoderate who can be pushed into a corner to support conservative proposals.

[linear]

Just remember the where Rick Perry stands on an issue depends on whether he’s running for election or governing. Be sure to research the governing (nanny-state CINO) vs. the candidate (Tea Party) Perry.

[zerosix]

Thanks a lot. I do now remember his public statement against the AZ law on dealing with illegal aliens, stating that it wouldn’t be “appropriate” for TX (or some similar drivel.)

[Liz]

Perry endorsed 2008 Giuliani AND Perry partnered with RINO Rudy Giuliani
(persona non grata on Free Repub) to build the Trans-Texas Corridor...
allows Mexican trucks to enter the US and traverse all the way to Canada.

DISQUALIFIER Aug. 28, 2007----In Mexico for trade talks, Perry blasts US immigration policies
Houston Chronicle, Mexico City Bureau | DUDLEY ALTHAUS
FR Posted on 08/28/2007 by Dubya

MEXICO CITY — Leading a large delegation of Texas executives trying to drum up business in Mexico, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Congress for failing to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of workers. "I don't think this is that difficult an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all the mean rhetoric," Perry said during a break in the third day of meetings with Mexican officials and business executives. (Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...

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DISQUALIFIER August 24, 2007 ---- TX governor Perry rapped for paving way for construction of Trans-Texas Corridor;
allows Mexican trucks to enter the US and traverse all the way to Canada.
One News Now | Chad Groening
FR Posted on 08/25/2007 by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being called to task by an author and investigative journalist for vetoing bills that would have blocked construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor.

Dr. Jerome Corsi has been one of the leading voices warning the American public about the consequences of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which will be part of a superhighway -- purported to be four football fields wide -- that will allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. and traverse the core of the country all the way to Canada.

The best-selling author asserts that Governor Perry cleared the way for construction to begin in his state when he vetoed several bills passed by the Legislature that would have stalled the project.

"Governor Perry has been 100 percent gung-ho in building this road," says Corsi. "The Legislature voted a two-year moratorium, it voted a redefinition of eminent domain -- [and] Governor Perry vetoed them. [On] at least one of those measures, he waited until the Texas Legislature was out of session so it couldn't even override his veto."

Corsi says it is unfortunate that there has been political pressure to get the project started. "The Federal Highway Administration's lawyer wrote letters threatening the Texas Legislature to cut off federal highway funds if they got in the way of this Trans-Texas Corridor," he says.

Corsi believes the same pressure will be applied on other states, like Oklahoma, to go along with the project. He suggests that would mean a loss of more American jobs and could pose a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

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April 17, 2011----513 People Crammed Into Two Mexican Trucks Bound for US

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said. The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, "were traveling in inhuman conditions" in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general's office said in a statement. Police stopped the trucks, carrying 240 and 273 people, on the outskirts of state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez early Tuesday, after they accelerated through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint, the statement said. Officers chased down the vehicles shortly afterward, it added.

Police detained the Mexican drivers of the two trucks, and the migrants were provided with aid and food, the statement said. Mexican lawmakers last month unanimously approved a law to "strengthen the protection and security" of migrants amid widespread abuse. Rights groups have long criticized Mexico for failing to protect tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, trying to cross the vast country to illegally enter the US each year. The gruesome discovery of 72 murdered migrants from Central and South America in northeastern Tamaulipas state last August increased pressure on the government to act. Copyright 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.

SOURCE http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/mexico-detains-513-people-crammed-into-two-us-bound-trucks-20110517-ncx

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April 12, 2011----US Taxpayers Pay To Upgrade Mexican Trucks, US Trucks Not So Lucky
http://radioviceonline.com/ Steve McGough
FR Posted by Biggirl

A story broke yesterday concerning the retrofit of more than 100 trucks from Mexico that do not meet United States environmental standards. Our federal government is paying to upgrade these trucks, yet when the state of California and the EPA set new rules for US-owned trucks, they fine companies who do not comply.

This post is not about the environment, it concerns how US trucking companies are treated by the federal and state government as compared to Mexican-owned rigs. From AzCentral.com. For air-quality regulators, the border creates a legal barrier.

State and federal agencies can’t force vehicles manufactured and bought in Mexico to comply with U.S. emissions rules, even though the trucks cross into this country.

So the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality tried a different approach, offering to pay Mexican truck owners to replace old mufflers with new catalytic converters that will reduce harmful diesel emissions by up to 30 percent. The project in effect circumvents the more lax Mexican rules about exhaust systems. (Excerpt) Read more at radioviceonline.com

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DISQUALIFIER Aug. 28, 2007----In Mexico for trade talks, Perry blasts US immigration policies
Houston Chronicle, Mexico City Bureau | DUDLEY ALTHAUS
FR Posted on 08/28/2007 by Dubya

MEXICO CITY — Leading a large delegation of Texas executives trying to drum up business in Mexico, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Congress for failing to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of workers. "I don't think this is that difficult an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all the mean rhetoric," Perry said during a break in the third day of meetings with Mexican officials and business executives. (Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...

[carjic]

Trust this from a Texan...Perry is all talk and very little walk. He will campaign like a true conservative but when it comes down to acting he will back off and comprimise just like Romney and the other RINOs. Not what we need.

[Emperor Palpatine]

He forced little girls to be vaccinated with Gardisil, and the parental opt-out procedure was deliberately made so onerous and difficult as to practically not exist.

He’s in bed with the Bilderbergers.

He’s for amnesty, lied about building the border fence, and condemned Arizona for their illegal immigrant bill.

Oh, he supported Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 presidential primaries, and Rudy’s not exactly a paragon of conservative values.

[truthfreedom]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4535418.html
Perry’s vaccination order still stoking fires

AUSTIN — Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry’s order mandating
that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4528909.html

Critics rip Perry’s vaccine mandate
Governor rejects opponents’ calls to reverse order

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry stood firm Monday against a political firestorm generated by his
order that sixth-grade girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.

Social conservatives from Texas to Washington called on Perry to reverse his order making
Texas the first state to require the vaccine, saying the mandate makes sex seem permissible
and that parents should be the ones to decide whether to immunize their daughters.
And several Texas lawmakers expressed outrage at Perry for circumventing the legislative process.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/us/26texas.html

The vaccine, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck, which was represented in Austin by the
lobbyist Mike Toomey, who was chief of staff for Mr. Perry from 2002 to 2004.

[GeronL]

Rick Perry is a malleable gummie RINO

[EternalVigilance]

Perry thinks it’s okay to kill some of the babies.

That’s all I need to know about him.

But the fact that he was once Al Gore’s Texas chairman, and endorsed pro-abort Rudy Giuliani in 2008, is notable nonetheless.

[smoothsailing]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740806/posts?page=17#17

[Georgia Girl 2]

Rick Perry is a former Democrat and campaign manager for Al Gore. He was a passionate sponsor of the Trans Texas corridor, he is a former Bilderberg attendee and issued an Executive Order requiring all girls in Texas to be vaccinated with the Gardasil virus. Currently Perry appears to be only a lukewarm actor in the battle for a state TSA anti groping law. I would imagine that a Perry Presidency would look a lot lot another term of GW Bush. If you liked Bush you will like Perry.

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

“Where does Rick Perry stand on conservative issues?”

Depends on which way the wind is blowing.

Does the word “Opportunist” mean anything to you?

[DaGman]

While you’re at it, do a search on eminent domain and seizing property to build a superhighway through the middle of the state.

[TLI]

Where does Rick Perry stand on conservative issues?

Well, right now he is standing in California, not Austin, Texas where he could have been mustering support for the TSA and Sanctuary City bills.

Both failed.

"Gov. Rick Perry Swings Through California"
June 28, 2011 7:28 PM

Perry plans to a meet behind closed doors Thursday with Orange County Republicans and, later in the day, with legislators in Sacramento. He also plans a sit-down with business leaders and potential fundraisers in Beverly Hills.

He starts his trip Wednesday in San Diego, where he will speak at a Boy Scouts event.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/06/28/gov-rick-perry-swings-through-california/

Looks like those calls last week from republican donors Charles Butt (HEB) and Perry from Houston (no relation to Rick Perry) worked. Both are establishment GOP and that appears to be the road Rick Perry has chosen.

Rick Perry went from RINO to PRIC faster than I thought he would.

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[Responsibility2nd]

This should answer your question.

[Proud_texan]

I agree with other that observe that he talks like a conservative at election time and then 15 minutes after the election, well, it's not quite the same.

I knew he was running when he vetoed the "driving while texting" bill last week with the comment that it was micromanagement of adults.

Okay, maybe, but back in 2007 he had no problem signing a bill that required seat belts for adults in the back seat.

Okay, a minor thing but if you have core principals you tend to be consistent on stuff like that and I don't see how one is different than the other. But that's just me.

Then there's his rat conversion from being a rat. Nothing wrong with that, lots of good conservatives were once democrats. But there's that gig he did as chairman of Al Gore's presidential campaign and Perry was 40 something at the time. Wow, by 40 and after Carter and all that followed in the dim party I would have hoped that I had grown a brain.

He's not all bad, he's pushed some good stuff, but you take the Gardisil thing, the Trans Texas Corridor, spending in Texas under his tenure (not totally his fault, he's not dictator) and immigration and you start to wonder.

Perhaps minor but this is the one that gets it for me. The Texas governors mansion gets torched. He rents a place, picked up by taxpayers, that rents for north of $9k..a MONTH. To date it's cost us north of half a million. His retort is that the Department of Public Safety (DPS) required him to rent the place and that we should talk about important stuff.

Seems to me that's one that everybody can relate to. If you don't have any willies about the things you spend taxpayers money on directly, without having to compromise with the legislature, etc. then what are you? And then to blame it on the cops?

I figure he'd end up governing a lot like Bush. Better than Obama but I'm not ready to throw in with him which there are still other options.

[deport]

Or Trans Texas Corridor....... I-69...... Palin supports Perry....... Cintra...... Lots of Perry stuff out there with a little searching/reading.

[Responsibility2nd]

He forced little girls to be vaccinated with Gardisil, and the parental opt-out procedure was deliberately made so onerous and difficult as to practically not exist.

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He TRIED TO force little girls to be vaccinated with Gardisil, and the parental opt-out procedure was deliberately made so onerous and difficult as to practically not exist.

Fixed it. He proposed this goofines. He was overwhelmingly defeated by the state lege.