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This is otherwise known as the standard Republican policy narrative circa 2015. It is very special. So special that no one can really explore the whole thing without losing their mind. Here’s 11 brilliant moments. But there are so many more. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 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. There are 879 volunteer fire departments in Texas; 114 are paid fire departments, while 187 departments are a combination of volunteer and paid. At a press conference Monday, Perry promised to seek federal disaster relief and said that FEMA would be in the state by Wednesday. While the Texas governor has been highly critical of FEMA in the past, he dodged questions from CBS’ Erica Hill on Tuesday's 'Early Show,' insisting that now was not the time to worry about reforming the agency.
Texas cut wildfire-battling agency budget this year - Maggie Haberman. Rick Perry's Democratic past: 4 key questions. Rick Perry had an innocent man executed, and should be made to answer. Texas Used Stimulus to Cover 97 Percent of Its Deficit - Derek Thompson - Business. Fed Up? Rick Perry Sucks Up To AT&T And Vice Versa: 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. In exchange, Perry has been a stalwart advocate of deregulation for banking and financial services. But Bank of America is not Perry’s only CFF (Corporate Friend Forever) He is also intimate with AT&T. In addition, the Dallas Morning News reported last December that AT&T bought 700 copies of Perry’s book, “Fed Up!”
“…the book purchase was arranged between [AT&T] and the American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC], the conservative outfit that invited Perry to speak at its annual policy summit. Related. How Rick Perry Created His State's $27 Billion Budget Crisis. August 24, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The following piece appears in the current issue of the Washington Spectator.For more great stories, check out their site. 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. The $27 billion equaled 15 percent of the $182 billion biennial budget the Legislature had passed two years earlier.
Perry’s statement was even more remarkable because most of the budget shortfall was a consequence of a business-tax bill he pushed through the Legislature in a special session five years earlier. First, some background. Because there is no income tax, property taxes are high. It was evident at the time that the new tax would not deliver what the governor promised. Just One Week Into His Campaign, Rick Perry Disavows His Nine-Month-Old Book. By Ian Millhiser on August 22, 2011 at 9:50 am.
Perry on Abstinence Education. Flashback: Rick Perry Supports Criminalizing Gay Sex. 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.
Santorum is upset, or at least pretend campaign-upset, that Perry told Colorado GOPers in July that New York's decision to legalize gay marriage was their right. But next to Santorum, Perry might be the least lgbt-friendly candidate in the race. Perry Points to ‘Idiotic’ U.S. Rule That Doesn’t Exist - Washington Wire. Rick Perry Attacks Climate Scientists on Behalf of his Campaign Donors. NJ: Perry's vulnerabilities with the right - politics - Decision 2012. 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. Romney doesn't want to talk about Perry Wondering about he playbook of attacks his Republican rivals may be digging from in the coming months? {*style:<b>Immigration.