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Sir, I am a doctor and a long-time FReeper, and was a volunteer lobbyist for pro-life laws in Austin in 2007. I support the HPV vaccine and hope you will take another look at Governor Perry’s true record of over 10 years.

While you were lobbying for pro-life laws in Texas in 2007, Rick Perry was campaigning for Rudy Giuilani's presidential campaign.

Governor Perry has fought for control of the border all along. He’s cut spending, protected life and marriage, and knocked the RINOs off their bureaucratic pedestals in Texas.

He supported Rudy Giuliani, a pro-gay marriage and pro-abortion canadidate for President in 2008. People claim Rick Perry is a moral person, but if he is, he had no qualms about setting those morals aside to campaign for an immoral candidate.

And as for the border, Rick Perry was pushing for open borders in 2001 and after that was pushing for guest worker programs, to the point that in 2007 he went to Mexico City where he complained that the US Congress wasn't mature enough to pass a guest worker program. In 2010 he complained that Arizona-style legislation wouldn't work in Texas. He took millions of dollars from people who benefited from illegals, and earlier this year those same donors lobbied the Texas legislature against legislation that worked against illegal immigration.

All those years where Perry spoke out in favor of things that would benefit illegal immigrants did nothing but encourage them.

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Remember that Governor Perry extracted a promise from Mayor Guiliani to only appoint strict constructionists if elected. Did we get any such promises from McCain or Romney in the fall of 2007?

As to the fight against the sanctuary bill, the Governor got it passed in the Senate. He put the Bill on the Special Session agenda, and Norm Adams (Texans for a Sensible Immigration Policy) and Steve Hotze (Conservative Republicans of Texas) came out to fight the Bill in the House, at the last minute because they didn't like Attorney General Abbott's language. http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislative-session/sanctuary-cities-causes-rift-within-texas-gop/

Some examples of the ways the Governor and our State have tried to make up for the lack of response to the Federal government. Take another look:

Governor Rick Perry is for border control and has the record to prove it:

Governor Perry has always advocated for “boots on the ground” at the border, but has been unable to get the Feds to send the manpower. He’s advocated letting the military practice the use of unmanned Predator aircraft along our border ("They’ve gotta practice somewhere.”)

There are National Guard troops on the Border. Perry has repeatedly asked for more and recently won approval for the 1200 (we only got about 250) that have been deployed to stay longer. Read this news report from a year ago.

As a direct result of the Governor alerting the Texas Republican Congressman about Obama’s plan to remove the National Guard after less than 6 months, we'll have them longer. News report, here, from last month about the extension.

More, here http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://wingright.org/2011/08/06/perry-palin-fish-or-cut-bait/

Watch and listen to Governor Perry talking with Greta van Susteren about the border. boots on the ground, and the problems with the fence. (You can see and hear the Texas Ranger helicopters in the background.)

He created the Ranger Recon force, sending 150 Texas Rangers (one riot, one Ranger) to the border along with helicopters and Texas Guardsmen. He demanded and got National Guard and two unmanned drones. He got the National Guard deployment extended beyond the original 6 months. Unfortunately, Texas only got 1/4 of the Guardsmen and 2/8 of the drones.

Texas (with our costs from the ICE detention center detainees being dumped in the State by Homeland security, support of Katrina refugees, our natural disasters like Ike, wildfires, and tornadoes) is expected to pay for our own Guard if we want them here after September.

Texas has spent $200 million a year on the cost of jailing illegal aliens that the feds bring here. We’ve spent $79 million of our own Texas tax funds on troops, helicopters.

The Legislature refused to fund his virtual border, so he used money from the Governor’s discretionary fund. In some cases, local sheriffs and cities refused to cooperate.

Here’s an article from January of this year showing resistance from border Sheriff Wiles.