How so? If you're referring to instate tuition, they are not getting taxpayer funded money. They are paying the instate tuition rate b/c they have been living here, graduated a Texas high school, and have been paying taxes into the Texas system. They have to secure their own funding. All said, this group makes up 1% of the admissions in Texas schools.
As for your claim that he's soft on immigration, Gov. Perry has done more than any of the other candidates combined in combating the problem we have. The federal government has a constitutional requirement to deal with this, and it has refused. Therefore, Gov. Perry has allocated an ass load of Texas taxpayer money (money that doesn't grow on trees, mind you, b/c we have to balance our budget every 2 years) to help deal with this problem. He signed a bill into law that requires ID to vote, and heavily pushed this past year to get the legislature to end the sanctuary city problem. He has personally confronted Barack Obama to deal with this issue. There's a nice photo out there of Perry handing Obama a formal written request. Mitt Romney hasn't done this. Ron Paul hasn't done this. Michelle Bachmann hasn't done this. Rick Santorum hasn't done this. Huntsman hasn't done this. Herman Cain never did this. Sarah Palin never did this. Newt Gingrich never did this. Barack Obama never did this. Joe Biden never did this. And when the others talk about building a nonstop wall right in the the smack middle of the Rio Grande, anyone with any knowledge whatsoever of the geography of the Texas border knows that it's a pipe dream.
Signs an executive order that provides his pals at Merck an exclusive drug contract with Texas by having young girls take a pill that promotes promiscuity - under the table payoffs from his boys at Merck {but perrywinkles call them campaign contributions}.
Your issue seems to be that he chose Merck over another company. What other company should Perry have chosen? He couldn't have chosen another company at the time b/c no other company made the vaccine. However, the CDC recommended the vaccine, and Gov. Perry signed an executive order for the vaccine that stated you didn't have to take the vaccine if you didn't want to.
As for you suggesting a quid pro quo with Merck, do you have proof that the Governor of Texas or Merck conducted a quid pro quo? Post hoc ergo propter hoc doesn't cut it.
Ditto that!!