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Perry Cements His Reputation As a Powerful Governor
Texas Tribune ^ | July 3, 2011 | Jay Root

Posted on 07/03/2011 12:39:44 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife; RitaOK; dusttoyou; RVN Airplane Driver
"Perry brings more to the table in terms of successful governing experience than anyone else seeking to challenge Obama."

Does Experience Matter in Government? Perry Proves the Point.

41 posted on 07/03/2011 2:55:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: garypolitze

Go crawl back under your rock.


42 posted on 07/03/2011 2:59:48 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Prokopton

You have a point, but all those boards and commissions were not Perry’s making, we suffer from too many years of the likes of Ma Richards and dem controlled legislatures. Better to have them filled by a conservative.


43 posted on 07/03/2011 3:01:27 PM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Amazingly enough it shows you how few Perry bashers have served their country....otherwise they would have been all over that.... Keep up the good fight girl....I get tired of fooling with the brain deads...logic and facts have no place in their world. As I have posted before they are few in number but make lots of noise...much akin to the so called “gay” community....I usually refer to them with a different moniker. Have a Great 4th....up here next to the Red River I just looked and it was a 104....great for going out and throwing some dead meat on the grill....=s=


44 posted on 07/03/2011 3:01:42 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"But some Republicans worry there will be political fallout for supporting the first decline in overall public education spending since at least 1949."


I am a Bachmann supporter, but I got to admit that got my attention. There are very few political figures who have been willing to actually support overall reductions in public education spending. I would like to know more about this. This is an issue that far too many Republicans are too afraid to touch.
45 posted on 07/03/2011 3:03:03 PM PDT by rob777
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Would you remind folks of the offices that Perry held before becoming Governor. thanks.
46 posted on 07/03/2011 3:07:53 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Anima Mundi

LBJ was never Governor. He was a part of the lock-step solid dem majority in the legisature who did not do right by Texas. Lyndon had a hundred years of dems running everything, i.e. Yeller Dog dems.

Perry nor any other Pubbie Gov. had the loaded deck like Lucky Lyndon.


47 posted on 07/03/2011 3:11:16 PM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is an excellent article and provides a counter to the oft-quoted mantra here at FR that “the TExas governor’s position is weak at best”


48 posted on 07/03/2011 3:13:46 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

No I don’t know that.

I’m posting links and quotes from articles.

What kind of poster I am? I’m one who does research and reports the results of my research.

I’m not saying these articles are right. I’ll leave that up to others to decide for themselves.

I do know that you have been posting pro Perry articles all the time. Some people would think that articles like

“Perry Ties His Own Shoes, Shows Presidential Leadership”

aren’t necessary, but not you. You are on here, filling up freerepublic with your Perry spam, seemingly 8 hours a day.
That’s the kind of poster you are.


49 posted on 07/03/2011 3:18:21 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: truthfreedom

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4535418.html
Perry’s vaccination order still stoking fires

AUSTIN — Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry’s order mandating
that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4528909.html

Critics rip Perry’s vaccine mandate
Governor rejects opponents’ calls to reverse order

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry stood firm Monday against a political firestorm generated by his
order that sixth-grade girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.

Social conservatives from Texas to Washington called on Perry to reverse his order making
Texas the first state to require the vaccine, saying the mandate makes sex seem permissible
and that parents should be the ones to decide whether to immunize their daughters.
And several Texas lawmakers expressed outrage at Perry for circumventing the legislative process.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/us/26texas.html

The vaccine, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck, which was represented in Austin by the
lobbyist Mike Toomey, who was chief of staff for Mr. Perry from 2002 to 2004.


50 posted on 07/03/2011 3:20:35 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: truthfreedom

Perry’s push for super highway raises conspiracy buzz
Some say it’s part of a plan to create one nation in North America
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5064512.html

Perry enhanced the conspiracy buzz earlier this summer by traveling to Turkey to attend the secretive Bilderberg conference,
which conspiracy theorists believe is a cabal of international monied interests and power brokers pressing for globalization.

The first, and most controversial, leg of the Trans-Texas Corridor plan is a proposed 1,200-foot-wide private toll road
to run from Laredo to the Oklahoma border parallel to Interstate 35. This TTC-35 would be built
by a consortium headed by Spanish owned Cintra S.A. and Zachry Construction Corp. of San Antonio.

Perry fueled his role in the debate in June by attending the Bilderberg annual conference,
a secretive closed-door meeting of about 120 business, government and media leaders from Europe and North America.


51 posted on 07/03/2011 3:21:11 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: truthfreedom

Hey...tell us something about yourself....IMHO..people who don’t tell us anything about themselves are suspect....


52 posted on 07/03/2011 3:22:20 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver
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To: Ditter

Perry was a state rep (serving as a Dem) for a few terms. Then he switched to GOP and became Texas AGriculture Commissioner (knocking out the looney leftist Jim Hightower, a Jesse Jackson supporter in the general election).

After that, he was Lieutenant Governor for two years or so, before ascending to Governor when Bush became President.

He has been the Governor of Texas since that time.


53 posted on 07/03/2011 3:22:29 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: dusttoyou

Texas can keep Perry. He’s little more than our Jerry Brown with more hair.


54 posted on 07/03/2011 3:24:15 PM PDT by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
If Perry does end up on the presidential campaign trail, he will be ticking them off like a pre-trip checklist. Curbs on abortion — done. Lawsuit restrictions — check. Staggering cuts to programs once seen as off-limits — yes, yes and yes.

Hated by Bush family over criticism of GWB's spending. Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

55 posted on 07/03/2011 3:26:00 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: garypolitze

To say he was a cheerleader in college is extremely disingenuous and an attempt to get people to not take him seriously because he did something “un-manly.” He was a Yell Leader, which is a group of 5 people (3 Srs, 2 Jrs) voted by the student body to lead specific yells relating to the teams.

The Yell Leaders are generally members of the Corps of Cadets, which serves as the main ROTC program for the University. TAMU is recognized as a Senior Military College, on par with the Citadel and VMI. Rick Perry, as a Yell Leader, was also in the Corps. Members of the Yell Leaders are also eligible for athletic letters.

Aside from that, can you specify what lies he has told?

In the 80’s, Texas was a Democrat state, and they werent all crazy liberal Democrats. They were what is now termed as Reagan Democrats, or even to some extent conservatives who stayed as a local dem (like Zell Miller) while the national party was changing. As a democrat, he pushed for austerity in the state legislature.

When he supported Gore, Gore was known as a conservative democrat. He had not dabbled into the environmental issues. Gore ran as a centrist who was opposed to abortion and pro public prayer. While in Congress, Gore voted against banning interstate gun sales. In 1991, he supported the Gulf War.

So to claim he was a Gore supporter in the 80’s and that he was a cheerleader in college, doesnt really have the factual impact you were going for.


56 posted on 07/03/2011 3:32:59 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Think for a minute:

THE PRESS IS PUSHING PERRY. Ask yourself why.

You know the answer.


57 posted on 07/03/2011 3:43:42 PM PDT by PastorBooks
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To: smoothsailing

Some of us are into competence, a heavy resume of accomplishment, and superb governance. Others of us, not so much. Just throw in some flags to cover the lack of gravitas and for many, that’s enough. Perry takes experience straight to Romney. Then it’s a money war for the win.

I lean to Rick Perry, obviously, but look forward to 18 months or so of all our great candidates bringing their best game to the great battle for ‘12. Any one of them can fall flat, I know that, but we have got to win the general election at all costs. I’m in, and I know we all are!


58 posted on 07/03/2011 3:46:08 PM PDT by RitaOK ( We hang together or hang separately. 2012, or bust.)
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To: truthfreedom
STOP SPAMMING THE IDIOTIC PERRY IS GAY STORY!!!

You keep posting the part of the story with the salacious rumors, but conveniently leave out the part where they never find any evidence that there is any truth to the story!

The part you purposely omit...

For the record, Naked City looked into the Perry rumors when they first surfaced some weeks ago – inevitably accompanied by the warning, “The divorce papers are being filed today!” – and found no evidence of any truth to any of them, whatsoever. Amid much finger-pointing about who was the original source (and which political party he or she belongs to), nobody will go on the record. The governor's office (perhaps understandably) refuses any and all comment beyond a one-sentence statement from Perry spokesperson Kathy Walt: “These are false, malicious, and hurtful rumors, and the Chronicle's own investigation acknowledges that fact.”

We also know that numerous other reporters, from here to New York, have looked into the rumors, with, as far as we know, an identical lack of results. Nor do we expect anything we say here to have any effect on the rumors, which have become entirely self-replicating as they echo through the blogosphere.

59 posted on 07/03/2011 3:47:42 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: normy

Thanks for the rest of the story of why Rick is
“conservative like Obama” and governs Texas like Obama, along with all those other marxists he placed in power. /s/s/s


60 posted on 07/03/2011 3:56:27 PM PDT by RitaOK ( We hang together or hang separately. 2012, or bust.)
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