I’ve voted for Rick Perry for governor three times. I swore, in the middle of his 2nd term, that I would not vote for him again. But I held my nose and voted for him over that benighted Democrat from Houston.
I don’t know how you people from outside the state can criticize us who have lived with his “leadership” since Bush left for Washington D.C. He began grooming himself to run for POTUS the minute Bush left the building. He’s a POLITICIAN.
Rick Perry was all about taking people’s land for his TransTexas Corridor. He stuck his hand, unknowingly, into a buzzsaw and pulled back a bloody nub. You think he’d use his presidential power/authority more wisely? I sure hope so. I’ll have to hold my nose AGAIN and vote for him if he’s Obama’s opposition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor
The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) was a transportation network that was discontinued in the planning and early construction stages in the U.S. State of Texas. The network, as originally envisioned, would be composed of a 4,000-mile (6,400 km) network of supercorridors up to 1,200 feet (370 m) wide to carry parallel links of tollways, rails, and utility lines.[1] It is intended to route long-distance traffic around population centers
This is the sort of thing that has been necessary and done multiple times in US history. I wouldn't brand him liberal for suggesting it. He's not taking land to protect the three-toed salamander. There are pros and cons to that proposal.