Texans: What is Your Opinion of Gov. Perry? (Hutchins, Howe: appointed, rent) - Texas (TX) - City-Data Forum

mackinac81 · 08-16-2011, 01:58 PM

Sorry if this thread's been done before, but I was wondering what most Texans think of Rick Perry. I've heard he's not wildly popular, yet he's won election three times. So I thought I'd ask the people who probably know him best. So any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks!
Mackinac81

TexasHorseLady · 08-16-2011, 02:06 PM

If it weren't for what it would do to the country, I'd be delighted if he ran for President and won because it would get him THE HECK OUT OF TEXAS! The man is a menace, a self-serving, bonafide, Grade A menace.

And an embarrassment to the State of Texas.

Best of all possible worlds would be for him to resign as governor and run for President and lose.

That's about as polite as I can be about the current Governor of Texas.

And I'm not a Democrat, either.

mackinac81 · 08-16-2011, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

If it weren't for what it would do to the country, I'd be delighted if he ran for President and won because it would get him THE HECK OUT OF TEXAS! The man is a menace, a self-serving, bonafide, Grade A menace.

And an embarrassment to the State of Texas.

Best of all possible worlds would be for him to resign as governor and run for President and lose.

That's about as polite as I can be about the current Governor of Texas.

And I'm not a Democrat, either.

Wow. But why? What's he done (or not done)?

crone · 08-16-2011, 02:53 PM

Most people think the power in Texas is the speaker and the lieutenant gov. Governor Perry has been in office for so long he has appointed every department head, board and commission head plus University heads.
Four years in a rent house that cost the taxpayer $10,000 due to a fire at the gov's mansion.
Some say our balanced budget is the result of smoke and mirrors. Such as withholding mandated payments to Texas schools for a few days for bookkeeping reasons.
Some object to the State taking $1 from each person's monthly utility bill to fund utility assistance for indigent seniors and then putting it in the general fund. It most places that would be called theft.
Some object to his $250 million slush fund that supposed to be used to get new business to Texas. An audit might reveal that the fund goes to his friends and not much business or that many jobs for Texans.
I voted for Kay Bailey.

ChristieP · 08-16-2011, 03:14 PM

I voted for Kay, too.
Rick Perry's obsession with pleasing the religious right and refusing to allow casinos/gambling in Texas has cost our state thousands of jobs and untold millions of $. Go to any casino in OK or LA, and the parking lot is full of Texas plates! But Rick would rather give those states that money than allow gambling here.

TexasHorseLady · 08-16-2011, 03:39 PM

The Trans-Texas-Corridor was a Perry fiasco. (It's supposed to be dead. I'm not letting down my guard, because we know Perry's friends still want that money.)

He doesn't much care for the Constitution of the United States, based on his actions, and I suspect is not too fond of the Constitution of the State of Texas, either.

He felt in "imminent danger" from a coyote that stared at him after he yelled at it, such danger that he found it necessary to shoot the poor thing to show what a man he is. (Any woman of experience takes away exactly the opposite message from that, by the way.) I'm 61, 5'2", have encountered coyotes while by myself and unarmed and have never felt in danger. Of course, I don't feel compelled to yell at them, either (and if he yelled at me, I'd likely stare at him, too).

Do we really want someone that much of a scaredy cat or with that much he thinks he has to prove in the oval office with his finger on the trigger? What if a foreign head of state were to stare at him? Would he consider himself to be in imminent danger and go to war?

He's WAY too much about Rick Perry, and Rick Perry's buddies.

I could go on. And on. And on. But that's a start.

MobileDave · 08-16-2011, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ChristieP

I voted for Kay, too.
Rick Perry's obsession with pleasing the religious right and refusing to allow casinos/gambling in Texas has cost our state thousands of jobs and untold millions of $. Go to any casino in OK or LA, and the parking lot is full of Texas plates! But Rick would rather give those states that money than allow gambling here.

Yeah, but look at OK and LA... Do you really want their gambling related problems in this state?

I'm not vouching for the guy but who said Rick Perry wasn't popular in Texas?

I don't know if you could call someone who has been elected to three terms by the voters of Texas "unpopular" in Texas. Too me that's he definition of political popularity.

I think he won his last race by 13%... just sayin'

TT Dave · 08-16-2011, 03:50 PM

IMO, Perry is not as popular here in Texas as many people might think because most conservatives like me realize that he is very self-serving and quite corrupt. Perry is a consummate politician. He's slick enough to keep taxes low, enact enough policies that most conservative Texans like, and make statements that score political ponts. However, it is quite obvious that he is mostly acting in his own self-interests and he will do anything to stay in power. Perry has been involved in many corrupt activities over the years. Many of those things include payoffs to his political and personal friends and other various shady deals, mostly to the detriment of the state of course. I tried to vote him out and replace him with the alternative conservative (Kay Bailey Hutchison) in the last primary, but it was hard for her to stand up to Perry's powerful political machine. Prior to the election, Hutchinson was actuallly ahead in the polls at one point but Perry just simply ran a better campaign during the primary and she lost. In the the most recent general election, most Texans just couldn't stand the thought of Democrat Bill White being our governor. As a result, many conservative Texans voted for Perry simply because they didn't want a Democrat running the state, not because they really wanted Perry.

crone · 08-16-2011, 04:02 PM

Forgot about the TTC. That is the main reason I can't abide him. It is not going away. IMO, they want the ships to go into Mexico. It will destroy our west coast ports. Perhaps that is what they are after. Now that the 5 year moratorium is up, expect to see trucks with Mexico tags on their way to Chicago.
There is a plan to have a toll road owned by Spaniards. If TxDot improves freeway and the Spanish co. looses money, the state of Texas will have to pay the Spanish co.

Sandstorm214 · 08-16-2011, 05:02 PM

I just can't see Perry as President. He only gets away with what he does in this state because we are currently a one party state. He's divisive, stubborn, and does not (actually refuses) to work with those who disagree with him. He's petty and vindictive as well, quickly replacing political appointees who dare to even indicate the slightest hesitance in moving forward with some of his more extreme proposals. That's not going to work on a national level.