It is a lie that we don’t have leaders.
Governor Perry led in defending life, marriage, and religious freedom, every session he’s been in office. He has also led in State’s rights and the 2nd amendment.
He did not have to champion the ultrasound bill, the voter ID bill, or the Sanctuary Cities bill this year, much less put them on the emergency, fast track, list. He could have backed out of The Response prayer meeting.
Even the lefty “Texas Observer” http://www.texasobserver.org/lalinea/perry-breaks-with-big-bidness-tx-republican-party-and-his-former-sel (whose authors evidently can’t discern between the Arizona Bill and Texas’ version) noted that the Governor put the Sanctuary Cities bill on his emergency list and added it to the agenda for the Special Session. The Governor sent Armbrister to the Senate to “twist arms” during the Special Session.
Unfortunately this was a subject that Strauss was not willing to move to the right and there was opposition over language changes made by Attorney General Abbott to make the Bill Constitutionally sound under Federal law. That led Steve Hotze and Norm Adams http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislative-session/gop-boosters-urge-a-no-vote-on-sanctuary-cities/ (in addition to Charles Butts and the other Perry, Bob) to oppose the Bill at the last minute.
I hope never to lie. In any event, I stand by my belief that we do not have the leaders we need in Texas in the battle for America. I dispute that Pery has done anything for our Texas sovereignty.
Perhaps in a post-Perry Texas we can talk about what we need to do instead of everything being about what Rick Perry did or did not do. Hard to realize, but there was a Texas before Rick Perry and there will be one after him.
I totally agree that Strauss must go and that Steve Hotze and Norman Adams are big disappointments, to be kind. Bruce Hotze and his mother have been stalwarts in the liberty movement -- I don't know what they must think about Steve now.