And we're off!

[gotsnowgotslush]

August 13, 2011

Rick Perry enters presidential race with Obama broadside-

Perry took shots at the Obama administration, saying that it had "failed," and that its economic policies have "prolonged our national misery, not alleviated it."

"Our country's most urgent need is to revitalize our economy [and] stop the generational theft that is going on with this record debt," Perry said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20092051-503544.html

02/24/2004
AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry, his wife and staff and some of the state's largest Republican donors traveled last week to the Bahamas, where they talked about school finance.
Perry spokesman Robert Black said the Perrys used campaign funds to pay for their trip, while the staff's expenses were covered through private funds. He didn't elaborate.

Citizens watchdog groups slammed the trip as an example of how well-heeled donors gain access to the governor.

Brooke Rollins of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Rollins' husband Mark Rollins also took the trip.

http://austin.ynn.com/content/headlines/98968/perry--staff-took-bahamas-trip-paid-for-by-donors

Texas Public Policy Foundation founded in 1989 by James R. Leininger.
The TPPF is based in Austin, Texas

Funding-
* Armstrong Foundation
* Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
* Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
* Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
* Jaquelin Hume Foundation
* JM Foundation
* Roe Foundation
* Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation
*ExxonMobil


2011-08-10

Perry, who followed George W. Bush as Texas governor in 2000 after Bush was elected to the White House, has earned headlines for saying that perhaps

Texas should leave the United States and for holding a prayer rally this month that drew 30,000 people.

04/15/09

"Gov. Rick Perry: Texas Could Secede, Leave Union"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/gov-rick-perry-texas-coul_n_187490.html

He was an early booster of the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement.

Perry was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1984 when the Lone Star state was a Democratic stronghold. (District 64)

He served as a conservative Democrat in the state legislature until switching to the Republican Party in 1989.

While a Democrat, he was the Texas chairman for Gore's failed 1988 presidential bid.

And even after he became a Republican, in a 1993 letter he praised Hillary Clinton's healthcare reform efforts while she was first lady as "most commendable."

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/n....faithful.wonder.if.Rick.Perry.walks.the.walk

August 13, 2011

Students for Rick Perry on Facebook? Arizona Students for Perry on Facebook? North Carolina Students for Rick Perry Georgians for Rick Perry South Carolina Students for Rick Perry
Ohio Students for Rick Perry Arkansans for Rick Perry Iowans for Rick Perry Americans for Rick Perry 2012 North Carolina Federation of College Republicans Alabama Students for Perry

Texas Tall Tales

According to the Texas comptroller, Texas is expected to have a $27 billion deficit over the 2012-2013 period.

4/27/2011
The Senate Finance Committee’s draft, which does not raise taxes and cuts state spending by $11 billion. Under the Senate plan, schools would face $4 billion in cuts. The House bill cuts education spending by $8 billion.

In addition, the upper chamber is trying to restore funding for Medicaid and nursing home reimbursement rates. Under the House proposal, some advocates have suggested up to half the state’s nursing homes could be forced to close.

Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston- “We have to keep every dollar moving forward in reserve, because I think we’re going to have a $10 [billion] to $15 billion budget deficit next session.”

5/4/2011
Over the vehement objections of Democrats, the Texas Senate today passed a state budget for the next biennium by a vote of 19 to 12.
On Wednesday, Ogden and Lt. Gov. Dewhurst bypassed tradition and resorted to a loophole in the rules to allow them to send the bill forward with a simple majority vote.


The only thing that let Gov. Rick Perry get away, temporarily, with claims of a surplus was the fact that Texas enacts budgets only once every two years, and the last budget was put in place before the depth of the economic downturn was clear. Now the next budget must be passed — and Texas may have a $25 billion hole to fill.

How bad is the Texas deficit? Comparing budget crises among states is tricky, for technical reasons. Still, data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities suggest that the Texas budget gap is worse than New York’s, about as bad as California’s, but not quite up to New Jersey levels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/opinion/07krugman.html
(look for- The Texas Omen- January 6, 2011)

8/5/11

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-ivory-tower/2011/07/26/gIQAyfrvsI_story.html

WASHINGTON -Gov. Rick Perry has pursued a controversial agenda that would gut Texas' vaunted public university system in favor of something that more closely resembles a business.

June 6, 2011

More than 200 Texas Schoolteachers crowded around the rotunda of the Texas Capitol yet again to protest against education spending cuts.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-l...o-teachers-parents-protest-texas-budget-cuts/

They demonstrated Monday afternoon to bring pressure on the Legislature to reject proposals to slash state funding obligations to school districts by nearly $4 billion.

In 2009, the University of Texas library ranked 10th in the prestigious Association of Research Libraries Index, A&M 23 and Texas Tech 46

What happened?

http://www.arl.org/stats/index/index.shtml

http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/11/609.full.pdf+html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Another person notices something about Rick Perry-

No surprise that Perry touts the teaching of creationism in Texas schools, since he also loves another old myth, the one that Texas, despite Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and 600,000 dead soldiers, has the constitutional right to secede from the union. He knows it’s not true, but too many products of the crackerjack Texas school system don’t, and they love hearing that Red Meat Rick will take it to those guys who started the War of Northern Aggression.

Maybe what we need is a trial secession.

What do you say, Governor? Pray on it with Pastor Hagee, why don’t you? Then do it. Go back to the glory days of “Remember the Alamo!”

Of course, that will mean saying goodbye to your 15 military bases; cutting off all that slop Texas gorges on at the federal trough, $6.4 billion of which eliminated most of last year’s budget shortfall; and waving hasta la vista to the $200 billion a year that NASA’s been paying to play. Maybe a pork-free diet’s what you need to make you Texas-tough.

Rick perry quote-

"I would no more consider living in Massachusetts than I suspect a great number of folks from Massachusetts would like to live in Texas.”

(Is'nt it nice of him to speak up for people he does not know?)

http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25926&Itemid=112

Perry-tonitis ? It's nice to know I am not the only one that goes off on a rant.

Thank you, Mr. O’Toole

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Yeah, this is going to be a nasty election mainly run on slander since the issues cut the wrong way...

Rick Perry – Stupid? – Lies – supplementary
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/08/25/is-rick-perry-a-dope/?singlepage=true
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/can_rick_perry_survive_the_smear_merchants.html
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/08/28/krugman-against-science/?singlepage=true
__________________
Sideshow Barry Barker 2012 Says: "It's NOT the economy, Stupid!" It's the Birthers! The Tea Party! SARAH PALIN!
Bush!
BAD LUCK!!
RACISM!!!
ATMs, KIOSKs & CORPORATE JETS!!!
TSUNAMIS, TORNADOS, & the ARAB SPRING!!!
EARTHQUAKES, & HURRICANES!!!
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/files/2011/04/obama-wide-grin80.jpg

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A little secret meeting with the Evangelicals and a vetting for poor ol "pinata" Rick Perry

"I kind of feel like the pinata here at the party," Perry said at one point during the two-hour showdown-
that featured his rivals, particularly Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul, repeatedly challenge his record.

Perry: States’ rights — for me, not thee
August 31, 2011
Boston Globe

Rick Perry is basing his presidential campaign on curbing the federal government?
Rick Perry endorsed the rights of liberal states to choose their own paths?

"That’s why it’s especially disappointing to see Perry sign a pledge vowing to use federal power to fight gay marriage, even in states that want it.
The sweeping document not only commits a candidate to support a constitutional amendment against gay marriage and to back the
Defense of Marriage Act, but to appoint an attorney general and judges committed to opposing gay marriage.

Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann have already signed on; Jon Huntsman, wisely, has not."

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/e...1/08/31/perry_states_rights__for_me_not_thee/

Federal power is only to be used against people on religious issues?

Here is a Rick Perry cheer leader- the President of the Massachusetts Family Institute

Kudos to Perry for taking stand on marriage
September 3, 2011

"Only by the slimmest of margins has same-sex marriage been established by a handful of rogue state courts and legislatures,
some of whom - judges in Iowa and legislators in New Hampshire - have now experienced the wrath of the voters."

VS

N.Y. becomes sixth and largest state to legalize gay marriage

The bill makes New York only the third state, after Vermont and New Hampshire, to legalize marriage through a legislative act
----and without being forced to do so by a court.----

June 24, 2011

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the measure at 11:55 p.m., and the law will go into effect in 30 days, meaning
that same-sex couples could begin marrying in New York by late July.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/nyregion/gay-marriage-approved-by-new-york-senate.html

{Gay marriage is not legal under federal law as the so-called Defense of Marriage Act only recognizes marriage as the union between a man and a woman.}

Mineau doesn’t speak for families
September 10, 2011

....he is no more the president of Massachusetts families than I am the president of cake and ice cream - much as I would like that to be the case.

"The so-called institute is, in fact, a hate-filled organization that believes that the only families who matter
are those that have a procreating, Christmas-celebrating, mom and dad. The Massachusetts Family Institute
would have you believe that gay marriages are a threat to traditional marriages,
but the more enlightened among us realize that love is never a threat. Nowhere on the MFI website
will you find the fact that Massachusetts - seven years after the passage of gay marriage -
has the lowest divorce rate in the nation. How sad that Mineau has made it his life’s work
to deny people the right to have a family."

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/e.../?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today's+paper+A+to+Z

Have you looked at the two different spin-off organizations - the Massachusetts Independent PAC for Working Families (MIPAC/WF)
and the Coalition for Marriage and Family ? Or Family Research Council ?

"Although the MFI is soliciting funds for lobbying purposes, the following statement appears on their “Contribution” web page:
“Contributions to Massachusetts Family Institute are deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes”.

Under federal law, no more than an insubstantial part of contributions benefiting from a tax subsidy may be used for
“activities … [of] carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation”. 26 U.S.C. § 501(c) (3).

Donors are being asked to support legislative advocacy on the representation that the amount of their donations
will be deductible from their taxable income for federal tax purposes.

This promised inducement to donate gives the Massachusetts Family Institute a wrongful fundraising advantage
over organizations with an opposing point of view, engaged in lobbying without preferential tax status."

 

[Hallow_Ed]

what was the last non-nasty election not based on slander...