Rick Perry's Confederate past [Salon "exclusive" that gets it wrong]

Salon ^ | July 13, 2011 | Justin Elliott

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Salon Exclusive: The Texas governor's uncomfortably close ties to groups that glorify the Lost Cause

[UPDATED BELOW]

Rick Perry made national headlines in 2009 when, during a speech to a Tea Party group, he floated the possibility that Texas could secede from the union. But the governor's substantive ties to the neo-Confederate movement may be deeper than previously known.

A 1998 voting guide published by a leading neo-Confederate group and obtained by Salon not only endorses Perry for lieutenant governor but also describes him as "a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans." Perry's office did not respond to a request for comment about the governor's possible membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

This is the document, published by the League of the South on its website DixieNet.org; it was unearthed by Edward Sebesta, a Texas-based independent researcher and co-editor of "Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction." Click the image for larger size.

[BIG BIG BIG SNIP]

UPDATE 7/14/11: Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier issues this denial: "[T]he governor never joined that group nor has he ever paid any dues to it."

I've asked her if he has a position on the pending license plate issue, and if I hear back I will update this post.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This Salon "exclusive" was picked up by Daily Kos yesterday at 6:35PM. They UPDATED it with the correction at 7:04PM -- Too good a lie to let go to waste so they shot it online and then added the "update" (note: not a correction) less than a half hour later.

Anyhoo.....the Salon piece is still up with all it's innuendos and guilt by association, along with pages (not just headlines) "ripped" from history and posted and LINKED (for future misinformation by the MSM).

Because, as we've been repeated told, that if you diss President Barack Obama you will be called a racist.

They're gearing up [looks like a done deal] to paint Perry as racist.

I believe the race-baiting, poverty-pimping Left is going to get an up close and personal opportunity to discover that they've met their match in this challenger.

Click graphic to read the Salon "Exclusive"

[mosesdapoet]

Salon; Where the effete meet to bleat
who smell like sheep

[truthfreedom]

Someone challenged me on the “Rove switched Perry to Republican” so here’s this

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/19/karl-rove/karl-rove-says-he-and-consultant-david-weeks-persu/

Karl Rove says he and consultant David Weeks persuaded Rick Perry to switch parties and run for state agriculture commissioner

Texas Gov. Rick Perry draws mention in GOP consultant Karl Rove’s autobiography with attention
focused on Perry’s win for lieutenant governor in 1998 and Rove’s role in his pivotal earlier
switch from the Democratic to Republican party while he was a third-term member of the Texas House.

Rove writes: “Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend,
David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for
agriculture commissioner.” His book, “Courage and Consequence, My Life as a Conservative
in the Fight,” was published March 9.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

TEXAS:

Victim trying to save attacker from execution [story below]

It will be interesting to watch this play out.

Ahhhhhhh....I can see the msm headlines now: "Rick Perry allows execution of white supremacist despite racist ties." Then the lead-in: Despite Rick Perry's sympathy and support for the neo-Confederate movement he is allowing the execution of a white supremacist to move forward. Perry who is flirting with a run for the presidency in 2012, has denied his refusal to stay the execution has anything to do with whitewashing his past association with hate groups. //sarcasm

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July 15, 2011: AUSTIN - "A victim of a brutal hate crime is now trying to save his attacker from being executed.

Rais Bhuiyan has filed a lawsuit in Austin, naming Governor Rick Perry and several other officials, in an effort to save his attacker's life because he says he forgives him.

Bhuiyan was the second of three men of middle eastern descent to be targeted by an enraged white supremacist in Dallas, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Bhuiyan was fortunate to survive after being shot in the eye while working at a Dallas convenience store.

The gunman, Mark Stroman, claimed to be apart of the Aryan Brotherhood and said he was targeting middle easterners as revenge for his sister who was killed in the terrorist attacks.

Stroman was sentenced to death in April of 2002 for fatally shooting the other two men working at convenience stores during the nearly three week long rampage.

But, Bhuiyan says Stroman has changed since the deadly attacks and his life should be spared. "If Mark is given a chance to live, I believe that he will become a spokesperson in raising awareness against hate crimes," said Bhuiyan. [snip]

[tal hajus]

The killer has “changed”. Good for him. Death Row can do that to one. The death penalty was legally rendered and forgiveness or the lack of it should have NO bearing on it being carried out. Fry, (or should it be chemical?), him.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Phil Gramm and other conservative TX democrats switched to the GOP. Your Karl Rove connection is lame. Rove worked for Perry on one campaign for Texas Ag Commissioner in 1989. Should I call you a "troll?" I just learned from another FReeper that your constant, disruptive postings to my threads constitutes "trolling."

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[snip] "At the beginning of his six years in the State House, Mr. Perry shot down the notion that he might switch parties, despite the conservative leanings that put him at odds with his party leaders.

After former United States Representative Kent Hance of Lubbock defected to the Republican Party in 1985, Mr. Perry told the Abilene paper he was “disappointed,” saying he planned to change his party rather than defect to the other side.

The gap was obvious by 1989, his last year in the Legislature, when Mr. Perry carried a workers’ compensation insurance bill that angered Texas trial lawyers, then a powerful force in state politics. That same year, The Dallas Morning News named Mr. Perry one of the state’s 10 best legislators, but he was criticized by another publication.

The liberal Texas Observer called Mr. Perry the “Benedict Arnold of the Democratic Party” for siding too often with Mr. Clements.

“If The Texas Observer ever says anything good about me, then I’ve been hit on the head and they can send me back home,” Mr. Perry said.

Rumors that Mr. Perry would defect to the Republican Party — and run against Jim Hightower, the populist Democratic agriculture commissioner — picked up steam by late 1989. On Sept. 29, Mr. Perry made it official at a Capitol news conference. At his side were Fred Meyer, chairman of the Texas Republican Party, and Senator Phil Gramm, a former Democrat, who was aggressively courting would-be converts.

Mr. Perry’s timing, now legendary, could not have been better. He was one of only two Republicans elected to nonjudicial statewide office in 1990. Eight years later, Republicans swept every one of them.

“Perry has been a risk taker,” said Mr. Hance, the party switcher who became the chancellor of Texas Tech University. “And if you look at Perry’s timing in every race, he’s been the golden guy.” Taking a Look at the Governor, Back When He Was a Democrat

[personalaccts]

did he light the match to burn the cross or did Robert Byrd do it?

[truthfreedom]

This is Karl Rove’s book.

There’s no questioning that.

You all are really really trying so very hard.

Maybe they all had a hand in it. But according to Karl Rove, Karl Rove did it.

Maybe Karl Rove didn’t realize how unpopular he’d become for picking on Christine O’Donnell (and many many other things),
so he accidentially tainted Perry by association.

Hey, you can’t guess right on everything.

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/19/karl-rove/karl-rove-says-he-and-consultant-david-weeks-persu/

Karl Rove says he and consultant David Weeks persuaded Rick Perry to switch parties and run for state agriculture commissioner

Texas Gov. Rick Perry draws mention in GOP consultant Karl Rove’s autobiography with attention
focused on Perry’s win for lieutenant governor in 1998 and Rove’s role in his pivotal earlier
switch from the Democratic to Republican party while he was a third-term member of the Texas House.

Rove writes: “Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend,
David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for
agriculture commissioner.” His book, “Courage and Consequence, My Life as a Conservative
in the Fight,” was published March 9.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

June 29, 2010|By Johanna Neuman, Special to the Los Angeles Times

"Robert Carlyle Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who was often called the conscience of the Senate for his devotion to the system of constitutional checks and balances and the prerogatives of power, died early Monday. He was 92. Source

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[Robert Byrd] "was the longest-serving senator and the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress."

"In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision —a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions." Source

[RVN Airplane Driver]

After zero’s antics the last few years this association actually could help him in many voters eyes.....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You’re a TROLL.

[truthfreedom]

And by the way, you aren’t going to have a political consultant standing on stage with you. You’ll have other Republicans. Your article doesn’t say they personally switched him.

I have Rove’s direct words in his autobiography.

You have who is standing on the stage.

I’m mentioning this because one of Perry’s minions is questioning my facts.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If so, that would make Rick Perry the new “teflon” president.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Troll,

You have Karl Rove promoting Karl Rove.

Karl Rove is a talking head on Fox News like Dick Morris.

Get a life.

Move on.

[truthfreedom]

Perry’s minions are trying to spread lies. I honestly don’t want to read your lies. I just want to put good, solid fact down there.

Fact: Rove took credit in his autobiography for changing Perry to Republican.

[truthfreedom]

How about you limit yourself, personally, to posting one Perry thread a day. Just one a day? Do you think you too, could “get a life”. You too, could “move on” from your endless barrage of All Perry All The Time.

It takes a lot less time to post good facts that I have than it takes you to find this stuff, unless you have a complicated system.

[catfish1957]

You’re a TROLL

And I still think you are a political operative for the Perry campaign.

[catfish1957]

I will add though, and I brought this up in other forums in 2000, that algores’s ancestors were confederates and owned slaves too. Funny, Salon didn’t pick up on that.

[central_va]

There is nothing wrong with being a Son's of Confederate Veterans member. There nothing wrong with considering secession as a viable means of political autonomy. It is the Neo Yankee statists on Free Republic that think differently, and make the first Civil War a racial dispute it was "all about slavery". That silly mantra is reconstructed history. This demonstrates the total lack of historical knowledge there is even on good ole FR.

I have a Confederate flag flying at my house, does that make me an un-American racist?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I don’t recall seeing you two on the Sarah Palin threads I posted for so long.

I don’t recall any complaints from you two (and a few others who know who they are) when I posted Sarah Palin threads.

But now that I’m posting information on Rick Perry, you’re all a flutter and trolling my threads, calling me an “operative for the Perry campaign.”

I am not working for any campaign or political party or committee.

What’s next? You need to know my color? My religion? My bra size?