Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry talked with a friend
in September 1991 while visiting a ranch outside Austin.
Posted on 11/06/2011 1:18:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Democrats had ruled the state Agriculture Department for a hundred years. Perry immediately ejected Hightower loyalists and Democratic operatives from the agency. He pledged to cut the department’s staff by 20 percent and scale down the number of regional offices around the state.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry talked with a friend
in September 1991 while visiting a ranch outside Austin.
After Rick Perry switched from Democrat to Republican in 1989, he set out to become, in the words of his mentor Phil Gramm, more Catholic than the pope.
During the next 22 years, as he rose to the top of Austin’s power grid, Perry not only left his Democrat friends behind — he helped destroy them politically. And Texas evolved into a redder-than-red state.
Perry and the GOP took down U.S. Rep. Charlie Stenholm, Texas House Speaker Pete Laney , Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower , Texas Comptroller John Sharp and many other Democrats...
Perry has portrayed his move as a matter of principle, while those Democrats, and others, say it was the result of political ambition. Expressing grudging admiration, Stenholm said, “Rick has become a master politician.”
Stenholm and Perry grew up where pump jacks, cattle and rows of cotton exist side by side on the plains of rural West Texas. Stenholm, a conservative “blue dog” Democrat, was already in Congress when he helped recruit a 33-year-old Perry to run for state representative in 1984.
....After graduating from Texas A&M in 1972, Perry spent six years as an Air Force pilot and then returned to Haskell County in 1977 to work the farm and ranch with his dad. He had gotten a taste for politics after joining the American Agriculture Movement, which brought the problems of family farmers and ranchers to public attention...........
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I don’t know about misogynist. Based on what? Those phony-baloney allegations?
I mean that’s the problem around here. So many people are so quick to go extreme. In my opinion there are a few Cain posters who are the worst. But there’s plenty of blame to go around.
The fact is, there are exactly 2 non-conservatives in the race: Romney and Huntsman. To call any of the others non-conservative is to be a bomb-thrower, in my opinion.
now back to the adult conservation, how many months will those perry amnesty/visas be good for, how much more tax payers money do they get before we deport them. In short where is the deportation paragraph.
You just want to blame the border states for not protecting the border.
IOW, what have you done that is actually productive instead of bitching on your computer about what other people haven't done...to suit you!
You have no standing to comment on a GOP primary thread.
Stop the personal attacks and get on with the golden calf ceremonies. About time to put the reef on Perry’s head.
Spoken like a true Carville accolade.
What is the time limit on the visa/amnesty plan of perrys. Simple question. How many days will they visas be good for. When they expire do we then deport them, who pays their medical bills, who pays their education bills, when they apply for the visas can we then collect money from their home country for the american dollars they have stolen. If you have a plan you need to be able to explain it, no good old boy goof ball answers. Just the simple truth.
you post thread, after thread, after thread, after thread, after thread about Perry and your idolatry of the man, but you cannot answer simple questions about his visa/amnesty plan.
I answered you about 30 posts back.
Give it up. You’ve been outed as anti-GOP.
Go support your party.
Boy. Sure glad I’m not you.
Yes we see the perry surge in the polls right here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2803355/posts
How do those poll numbers change anything I’ve posted about Rick Perry?
And Ron Paul has won most of the Straw Polls.
So, what have we learned?
??????
Perry? Have a conversation about something other than himself? You gotta be kidding.
Ever notice that the Perry-pimponistas think their boy operates in a complete vacuum.....swearing that not a single, self-serving thought ever pops into that grinning, bloated head of his?
Fact is, Perry's non-stop ego needs to be fed 24/7.
Me-First Perry's entire approach to politics would work great----in Third World hellholes like Sierra Leone or Liberia.
Perry doesn't belong in a democratic republic.
He who laughs last laughs best.
Tell us more Liz.
My parents moved to Florida and said the same thing. If you wanted your vote to actually count, you had to register as a Democrat to make your vote count.
They finally moved back to Republican before the 2000 election. They still voted mostly republican in the national election but the Republicans had almost no real local presence when they first got there.
Thank you so much.
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