Either way, the guy cannot be trusted. If he gets in the White House, with rinos like Mcain and Graham to work with, we might as well learn spanish cause they will be flooding in. Just like in Texas.
Clarity bump. Perry's going to have a lot of explaining to do, when he's old and gray and his English-speaking neighbors are being discriminated against and can't get jobs because LULAC and LaRaza are pressuring employers not to hire anyone who isn't bilingue -- i.e. white Texans who flunk Johnny Mata's personal-political ("the personal is political") "too gringo for me" test.
One of Johnny Mata's LULAC responsibilities is to "open up" jobs at e.g. offshore supply firms -- which means, he goes to their managements and offers to make trouble for their client companies (operating companies like Devon and Shell and Anadarko Petroleum) through OSHA and EEOC if the target firm doesn't fire some white guys and hire nonqualified Hispanics in their places. Had a guy working on my attic a/c once who had had that happen to him. Hope he got back on someplace.
As for the business of "investing" in Rick Perry, that's almost a direct quote from a Houston Chronicle article five years ago. When KBH was first thinking about running for governor, she met with a group of Texas money men (who included Bo Pilgrim, one or more of the Tysons, Trammel Crow and a couple of other homebuilders -- presumably including Bob Perry) one of whom told her bluntly, "I've got good money invested in Rick Perry and I intend to get my money's worth." Just like that, in quotes, the story apparently coming from Kay herself, or a close aide who was close enough to be in the room when all this grown-up talk was laid on Kay, telling her to get back up to DC and be a good little senator. The point being that these guys really are that arrogant.