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The Texas Republican Party announced its 2012 platform . This is otherwise known as the standard Republican policy narrative circa 2015. It is very special.
Platform of the Texas Republican Party
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Perry's Merck Donations Raise Questions About Vaccine Mandate
Texas healthcare system withering under Gov. Rick Perry - latimes.com
Reporting from San Angelo, Texas — When Texas went to court last year to block President Obama's healthcare overhaul, Gov. Rick Perry pledged to do everything in his power to "protect our families, taxpayers and medical providers." Texas, he said, could manage its own healthcare. But in the 11 years the Republican presidential hopeful has been in office, working Texans increasingly have been priced out of private healthcare while the state's safety net has withered, leaving millions of state residents without medical care.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry Cut Fire Department Funding by 75%
According to KVUE-TV , the state of Texas, under Gov. Rick Perry, cut state funding for the volunteer fire departments that protect most of the state from wildfires. Firefighters have actually been dipping into their own pockets to fight fires. Volunteer departments that were already facing financial strain had their funding cut from $30 million to $7 million.
As Texas Gov. Rick Perry has stayed in-state for the past two days dealing with the record forest fires there, a reader pointed out to me the fact that the state was set earlier this year to cut the budget of the agency that deals with fighting such blazes . Texas lawmakers are set to slash funding for the agency responsible for fighting wildfires in the midst of a historic wildfire season in which some 2.5 million acres have burned. The Texas Forest Service faces almost $34 million in budget cuts over the next two years, roughly a third of the agency's total budget. The cuts are in both the House and Senate versions of the proposed state budget. Continue Reading The Forest Service has about 200 firefighters and offers assistance grants to volunteer fire departments.
Texas cut wildfire-battling agency budget this year - Maggie Haberman
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry hasn't always played on the red team. Back in 1988, he was the Texas state chair for Al Gore's presidential run. REUTERS/Brian Snyder t's no secret that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a " no-apologies conservative " — but not all voters know the new Republican frontrunner used to be a Democrat. Perry spent several years as a Democrat in the Texas state House — and always clearly had conservative leanings — before officially switching parties in 1989.
Rick Perry's Democratic past: 4 key questions
Rick Perry had an innocent man executed, and should be made to answer
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Texas Used Stimulus to Cover 97 Percent of Its Deficit - Derek Thompson - Business
Even as he railed against the Recovery Act, Texas Gov. Rick Perry used the government's stimulus plan to cover 97 percent of the state's budget deficit in 2009: Turns out Texas was the state that depended the most on those very stimulus funds to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010 , according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Texas, which crafts a budget every two years, was facing a $6.6 billion shortfall for its 2010-2011 fiscal years. It plugged nearly all of that deficit with $6.4 billion in Recovery Act money, allowing it to leave its $9.1 billion rainy day fund untouched.
A couple of weeks ago Rick Perry was caught on tape with a representative of Bank of America who offered a comforting message to the Texas governor saying that “We’ll help you out.” He wasn’t kidding. ThinkProgress documented the extent to which BofA had already provided abundant comfort to Perry. He has received over $125,000 from BofA’s PAC. He has received $4 million from the Republican Governor’s Association, to which BofA was a major contributor while Perry was its chairman.
Fed Up? Rick Perry Sucks Up To AT&T And Vice Versa:
In his State of the State speech in February, Rick Perry described the $27 billion budget shortfall confronting the Texas Legislature. “Now, the mainstream media and big government interest groups are doing their best to convince us that we’re facing a budget Armageddon,” Perry said. “Texans don’t believe it and they shouldn’t because it’s not true.”
How Rick Perry Created His State's $27 Billion Budget Crisis
Just One Week Into His Campaign, Rick Perry Disavows His Nine-Month-Old Book
Last November, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) published Fed Up , a 240-page ode to tentherism , which argues that everything from child labor laws to the Clean Air Act to Medicare violates the Constitution . As it turns out, however, claiming that America’s entire social safety net is unconstitutional isn’t a very popular position — so Perry’s now trying to take it all back just one week into his presidential campaign:Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) says the Supreme Court was wrong to knock down a Texas law that criminalized "homosexual conduct." Texas Governor Rick Perry /Flickr Dan Hirschhorn reports that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) is continuing to hammer likely GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry on gay marriage—even after the Texas governor announced that he would support an effort to ban gay marriage nationwide: "When someone who is a serious candidate for president is doing things that will be destructive not just for the Republican Party, but for the country, I'm going to point that out any chance I get," Santorum told POLITICO.
Flashback: Rick Perry Supports Criminalizing Gay Sex
Perry Points to ‘Idiotic’ U.S. Rule That Doesn’t Exist - Washington Wire
By Jonathan Weisman For a small-government conservative on the presidential campaign stump like Texas Gov. Rick Perry , a new federal regulation forcing farmers to get commercial drivers licenses would make a perfect example of Barack Obama ’s Washington run amok.Rick Perry Attacks Climate Scientists on Behalf of his Campaign Donors
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed . Thanks for visiting! Rick Perry turned some heads in New Hampshire Wednesday morning when he accused climate scientists of manipulating data in order to benefit financially. Here’s the quote: “I do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects.Texas Gov. Rick Perry has taken the Republican presidential field by storm since declaring his candidacy on Saturday, winning widespread praise for his outspoken conservative positions. But Perry has served 26 years since first winning election, as a Democrat, to the Texas state House in 1984. That means he carries a record — a long record — containing a few conservative blemishes that his leading rivals in the GOP field can seize upon. Indeed, in an interview with a Des Moines radio station on Monday, Perry was deluged with questions from informed Republican voters about potential conservative heresies on his record — from his enthusiastic backing of an unsuccessful superhighway proposal that critics claimed was a land grab, to his support for Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic presidential primary.