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Perry is awesome and I hope he tossed his hat into the ring.
The GOP is full of successful rising stars and he is one of them.
Perry/Christie would win easily hands down a total wipe out of Obama and Stupid Joe.
Many others will or may appear before it is all over.
I disagree, I think Cain can win this nomination, dont know if he will or not but the good ole boys want to win and get Obama out of our WH and will hopefully nominate the man who can defeat his sorry butt.
I am very impressed with Cain myself.
GOP is loaded with talent.
Hope you like toll roads nationwide. Hope you like havinf 12 year old girls implanted with an experimental drug. Hope you like having a Liar as a leader.
Anyway the talk here in Texas is that he may be more interested in the VP position, after all he isn't exactly much of a worker more of a prima-donna.
Casper
I have my doubts. Apparently the rest of America isn't yet aware of how badly Perry has compromised Texas' public works. If he runs, he'll be raked over the coals. Probably most Americans have heard of the serious California budget crisis. Perry has made Texas' even worse.
Perry, a Republican, campaigned on the strength of the Texas economy and made political hay of the fact the Lone Star state had avoided California's massive deficit, pegged at $25.4 billion through the upcoming budget year.
Now Texas faces a budget deficit estimated as high as $27 billion for the upcoming two-year cycle of 2012-2013.
Isn't Perry the same tea-bagging moron that threatened succession then months later was whining about how the federal gov't hasn't done enough to help Texas and demanding more handouts from Obama...???
Yeah he sounds like the perfect Republican candidate!
Isn't Perry the same tea-bagging moron that threatened succession then months later was whining about how the federal gov't hasn't done enough to help Texas and demanding more handouts from Obama...???
Yeah he sounds like the perfect Republican candidate!
Perry is the Governor who turned down Federal funds because there were strings attached. I don't recall Govenor Perry ever whining about the Feds not helping enough.
How many illegal immigrant students are included in those statistics? Many don't even speak English.
Ah, yes the blame it on the minorites card.
Why I am not surprised.
You also fail note that the State of Texas has a long history of discrimination and that includes denying access to quality education and adequate educational resources.
The property tax code of the State of Texas promotes the economic segregation of resources from rich and poor areas of the state. Since non-Whites and Latinos in Texas have been historically discriminated against in terms of jobs, housing, education, and access to financial capital economic segregation has become de facto racial discrimination. These inequalities have been the subject of numerous court battles in the State of Texas
In 1949, the Texas Legislature adopted the Gilmer-Aikin Act, which prescribed the reorganization of state education administration. The Gilmer-Aikin Act also established the "Minimum Foundation Program," which created a funding system that provided revenue for education from both state and local sources.
The "Robin Hood" system currently in place was precipitated by a 1984 lawsuit. At that time, a group of school districts charged that Texas ' use of property taxes to fund education resulted in substantial inequity among school districts (Edgewood v. Kirby). After making its way through the courts, the lawsuit reached the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled the finance system unconstitutional in 1989.
In 1990, the Texas Legislature was convened in a special session and passed Senate Bill 1, which provided more money for equalization, but essentially left the system intact. After the Texas Supreme Court struck down SB 1, the Legislature passed House Bill 351 in 1991, creating 188 County Education Districts (CEDs). The CEDs were allowed to levy state-mandated property taxes and redistribute the revenues to member districts.
The Texas Supreme Court struck HB 351 down, and the Texas Legislature returned to work. In 1993, it passed Senate Bill 7. the legislation that invoked the property tax recapture provision, also known as Robin Hood. The purpose for recapturing revenue from high-wealth districts and using it to fund lower-wealth districts was to improve equity in the funding system.
By 2004, Robin Hood was recapturing $1.2 billion per year from 134 school districts. The Texas Legislature budgets those recaptured dollars and uses them to fund the Foundation Program of finance. As a result, it is very hard to end the Robin Hood provisions because state government would have to find replacement funding to maintain support for schools.
During the 1990’s dissatisfaction with recapture mounted. At the same time, modest state funding increases were not keeping pace with the cost of education in Texas. To meet revenue needs of districts, school boards raised property tax rates. In fact, by 2003, nearly 690 school districts were at or near the statutory maximum tax rate of $1.50. This, in turn, sparked litigation to overturn the system because of high taxes and inadequate funding.
In 2001, a group of school districts mounted a lawsuit that became known as West Orange-Cove CISD v. Neeley. When the case went to trial in 2004, over 300 school districts were involved as plaintiffs or plaintiff interveners. Plaintiff school districts argued that, because they must levy the maximum property tax rate to maintain equity and adequacy, the local property tax had become equivalent to a state ad valorem tax, which is prohibited by the Texas Constitution. They also argued that the state finance system underfunded public education, preventing the districts from meeting their responsibilities to promote the General Diffusion of Knowledge.
In September 2004, the Travis County District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and set a date of October 1, 2005 for the Texas Legislature to remedy the unconstitutional aspects of the school funding system, including unconstitutional aspects of facilities funding.
Neither guy is going to get the Republican nomination.
So what are you going to do?
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Rick Perry may run for President
