Rick Perry on America's Worst Governors List (Houston, Austin: oil, educational)

[Mom2Feebs]

Originally Posted by aliveandwellinSA

the latest Perry news

Perry criticizes Ariz. law - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com

I saw that. He is SUCH a douchebag. UGH! I don't think I'm going to vote in November, period. There is absolutely no one to vote for that is worth anything.

[Heimdall]

Originally Posted by aliveandwellinSA

Perry criticizes Ariz. law - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com

Looks like Slick Rick is trying to score some Hispanic votes

[bluescreen73]

Are you really surprised that Perry would criticize the Arizona law? Remember how he tried to paint himself as the champion of border security in 2006? He made Chris Bell seem like a softie on the issue and made a bunch of hollow promises about how he'd keep the border secure.

[Bo]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

Are you really surprised that Perry would criticize the Arizona law? Remember how he tried to paint himself as the champion of border security in 2006? He made Chris Bell seem like a softie on the issue and made a bunch of hollow promises about how he'd keep the border secure.

And I fully expected to see him use that strategy again in the fall against Bill White. Perry taking the same position as White on the Arizona law makes his "toughness" on border security nearly impossible to defend with voters who adamantly want tighter borders. Arizona may have done Bill White a favor with its new law.

[cheryjohns]

I wish Kinky would stay out of it. He will never win - but he will drain votes away from White, giving Perry another win.

[Pretzelogik]

Originally Posted by diablo234

According to Citizens for Ethics Rick Perry is one of America's Worst Governors.

http://http://www.citizensforethics.org/worstgovernors (broken link)

Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS)
Gov. Donald Carcieri (R-RI)
Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-NV)
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA)
Gov. David Paterson (D-NY)
Gov. Sonny Perdue (R-GA)
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)
Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM)
Gov. Mike Rounds (R-SD)
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA)

Makes sense with the toll road fiasco, the educational ranking, etc.

Your thoughts on the matter.

Ah yes the citizens for E...now there is a fair and balanced group if I ever saw one....only surpassed by the ACLU...he who favors the left wing is doomed to fly in circles...

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by Pretzelogik

Ah yes the citizens for E...now there is a fair and balanced group if I ever saw one....only surpassed by the ACLU...he who favors the left wing is doomed to fly in circles...

ROTFLMAO!!

[bamba_boy]

There's a story in the Houston Chronicle about Rick Perry today that's almost unbelievable. If I didn't know that it was out of the rather middle-of-the-road to conservative HC and not some left wing wing-nut rag I probably wouldn't have believed it.

Remember when the federal stimulous packages were being sent out to the states to help balance their budgets and keeping important programs going in the depths of the recessing? Perry made a bunch of speeches about rebuffing the payout because of their "strings attached" and his passion for keeping federal tax burdens down even if it hurt his state personally, yada, yada. Later I THOUGHT I had heard that he ended up taking it anyway.

Well it turns out that he took MOST of his entitled federal money but not some $500,000,000 in money earmarked for the stressed Texas unemployment insurance account. All he had to do was agree to impliment a modest modernization of the system that authorizes people to be recipients (and keeps the "wellfare moms with Cadillacs" and fake pink slips from getting monthly checks like occurs now with a rickety and antiquated system) and we'd receive the subsidy.

BTW: For additional Rick Perry howlers, see link below: "More Rick Perry Stupidity" (Texas Forum thread)

Well, he refused and as a result the state had to borrow money on poor bond terms when the fund nearly went broke, eligible laid-off workers had delays in receiving checks, and most-importantly it's been announced that the burden of unemployment taxes on the small businessman in Texas will skyrocket in the next adjustment to pay back the borrowed money --- that would have come instead from Washington with no payback necessary. ... AND we'd have a new more efficient, harder-to-game eligibility-check system. WAY TO GO RICK. I salute you for maintaining your ideologic purity - even if it screws over laid-off workers and the hardworking small business owners of Texas. (I'm not going to say which finger I use to salute! :-) )

I'm usually not political on this forum but PLEASE if you're at all for keeping Texas' fine long-earned reputation (... and it's STILL true despite RP's attempts at screwing it up) as a good pro-business environment, vote this clown out next fall. His opponent, Bill White wasn't the perfect mayor, but he's a real businessman, a really smart individual, and has the knowledge of the federal gov't since his term under Clinton as Dep. Secr. of Energy to use Washington to skillfully help Texas reap it's share of federal tax-money and resources. Not to mention that the city has down very well, despite a major Hurricane landfall during his reign. He's a real oil man too, not the photo-cowboy Rick the Clown tries to be. Not only hands-on CEO of Wedge Petroleum but while DPSE he was instrumental in helping develop a very far-sighted policy in getting the US out in front of building an oil-export pipeline out of the Caspian basin through Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey circumventing Putin's Russia (and his tendancies towards squeezing out extortion tolls and squeezing off the supply when he's churlish of Russian-controlled pipelines).

[Pawdog]

If the only choices are Perry and White, I'll keep Perry. White has done zero for improving Houston, which is quickly becoming the cesspool of the state. White desires to make Houston another sanctuary city, as if the crime and gang violence there isn't already high enough.......Citizens for ethics is simply another Conservative bashing socialist Democrat controlled group.

I'm sure you can find another progressive bashing governors list, comprised of predominately Demos if you search the world wide web.

[TexasHorseLady]

Sorry, but we can't afford another Perry term. We couldn't even afford this one. If the third party candidates will just stay out of it, maybe we'll actually free ourselves this time around.