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Rick Perry's pro-immigration Texas base
POLITICO ^ | MAGGIE HABERMAN

Posted on 09/04/2011 9:54:52 PM PDT by Tempest

POLITICO's Ken Vogel passes along an email sent by Perry contributor Norman Adams that contained a separate email from Steve Hotze, also a Perry bundler based in Texas. Both emails make donor solicitations that underscore Perry's position helping to kill a bill similar to the Arizona immigration legislation, for instance.

The upshot is that these are not necessarily positions that either primary and caucus voters know about Perry, or that will sit well with them.

As I noted in another post, it's not clear that immigration is the driver of voter interests in presidential primaries that some believe it to be. But it will be interesting to see how Perry tries to keep both his donor base of Texas businessmen, who tend to favor the immigrants who aid the state's economy, and voters happy.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: palindroneattack; perry; ricardo; rino
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To: ncalburt

Oddly enough it’s scared trolls that often make ad hominem, strawmen arguements like you do....


41 posted on 09/05/2011 12:37:59 AM PDT by Tempest (I will be the one to say I you so.)
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To: Nextrush

that’s an awesome find!


42 posted on 09/05/2011 12:39:22 AM PDT by Tempest (I will be the one to say I told you so.)
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To: Tempest

They play with our emotions and use “wedge issues” as Rove calls them to suck us into supporting RINO’s.

Back in 1988 Bush 41 who said “read my lips, no new taxes” was making a speech saying something like “I’m not a card carrying member of the ACLU.”

He was making an emotional connection with conservatives to get their votes, not promising to make government smaller.

Its way past time for a Republican president to do that.

Its way past time to sober up and not be fooled anymore by these emotional ploys.


43 posted on 09/05/2011 12:40:39 AM PDT by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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To: Tempest

The letter speaks of Rick Perry switching his positions from the ones he took in the 2006 election.

Immigration and a tax increase proposal from Perry are in the mix of issues.

This same guy who’s raising money for Perry now was saying back then......”Its time for Texas Republicans to stand for principle once more and not fall for the empty promises of Rick Perry and his kind.”


44 posted on 09/05/2011 12:47:56 AM PDT by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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To: smoothsailing; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; Clintonfatigued; sickoflibs

Interesting.


45 posted on 09/05/2011 12:51:39 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Nextrush

I’m glad to see that more and more Freepers are starting to see through Rick Perry.

To me he’s a completely transparent, butt-kissing, shyster that apparently serves a pretty mean glass of kool-aid.

I sometimes wonder if some of his supporters around here aren’t part of his Texas network looking to profit off of his tendancy to sellout to close friends and family.


46 posted on 09/05/2011 12:54:38 AM PDT by Tempest (I will be the one to say I told you so.)
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To: Nextrush

Read the letter I linked to in post #33.

PERRY RAISED TAXES IN TEXAS......


47 posted on 09/05/2011 12:55:30 AM PDT by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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To: smoothsailing
For some reason which escapes me, NumbersUSA will list non-candidates but ignores Thad McCotter, who has a lifelong B+ rating and an "A" rating this term.
48 posted on 09/05/2011 1:33:14 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: rmlew

“Numbers USA” founder is an environmentalist activist.


49 posted on 09/05/2011 1:39:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Tempest

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-04/california-employment-level-sinks-to-record-low-as-fewer-women-find-jobs.html

55% of working age Californians had a job in July, in your home state.

Maybe Rick Perry can help out with that problem. Gov. Moonbeam and Gov. Schwartzenrinolovechild do not seem to have set the stage for much improvement.


50 posted on 09/05/2011 1:44:26 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Nextrush
...a politician who takes money from special interests and pays them back.

What is your problem with special interests?

51 posted on 09/05/2011 2:19:30 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: FlyingEagle

Yes illegal immigration will help fix teenage unemployment. What was I thinking...


52 posted on 09/05/2011 2:42:35 AM PDT by Tempest (I will be the one to say I told you so.)
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To: Tempest

All it will take is for Palin to point out a few dots for connecting between open borders/amnesty and crony capitalist campaign funders in TX.


53 posted on 09/05/2011 2:58:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Tempest

Looked into Perry’s background, didn’t like what I found. Maybe he should run for president of mexico, seeing as how he’s their biggest cheerleader.


54 posted on 09/05/2011 2:59:40 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Yosemitest

Thanks for your help. I’m sure Obummer will do a lot better in his next term./s


55 posted on 09/05/2011 4:42:35 AM PDT by Rearden (Deo Vindice)
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To: Yosemitest
In 2008, approximately 135 million people voted and BHO got over 66 million votes. It is highly likely that whoever opposes BHO in 2012 will need to receive over 65 million votes or the Marxist Hostile Occupier of the Oval Office will get four more years and America will cease to exist.
56 posted on 09/05/2011 4:59:39 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Patrick1; Tempest
Perry must be doing well indeed.

I'm getting tired of these folks who just know they have to destroy Perry, but will not tell us who they do back.

Tempest is losing it - I don't think he sleeps anymore in his efforts to hurt Perry - using POLITICO is a sure sign of desperation.

Tempest - JUST WHO DO YOU AND YOUR FELLOW PERRY-DERANGED BOTS SUPPORT////

57 posted on 09/05/2011 5:17:46 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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El Ricardo Perrynista receives a Mexican blanket from Gov Enrique Martinez,
Coahuila, Mexico as a token of appreciation for passing the Texas Dream Act.

QUESTIONS PERRY SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO ANSWER

<><> Have you made deals with illegal aliens to exchange campaign cash and votes to use your office to get illegals US govt handouts----free education, EITC, welfare, food stamps, UI, SS, SSI, healthcare, sub-prime mortgages, subsidized bank loans?

<><> Do you know this is a felony?

<><> Do you know which identity illegals use to register to vote for you?

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July 21, 2006----BERGEN RECORD, NJ

Texans accused of selling counterfeit IDs (impoverished illegals "here for a better life" pay several thousand $$$ for fake ID's)

Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, NJ L/E authorities said.

The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses---- for any state in the US------ passports and resident alien cards, said state police.

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. Authorities wouldn't identify the NJ hotel by name for fear it would spark retribution. The Drug Interdiction Task Force regularly runs checks.

The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. Authorities approached the Texas brothers when they returned to the NJ hotel and questioned them separately.

The Texas brothers consented to a search. Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs. All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to "impoverished illegals." Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 phony Social Security cards. ####

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August 24, 2007 ---- TX governor Perry rapped for paving way for construction of Trans-Texas Corridor;
allows Mexican trucks to enter the US and traverse all the way to Canada.

One News Now | Chad Groening
FR Posted on 08/25/2007 by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being called to task by an author and investigative journalist for vetoing bills that would have blocked construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor.

Dr. Jerome Corsi has been one of the leading voices warning the American public about the consequences of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which will be part of a superhighway -- purported to be four football fields wide -- that will allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. and traverse the core of the country all the way to Canada.

The best-selling author asserts that Governor Perry cleared the way for construction to begin in his state when he vetoed several bills passed by the Legislature that would have stalled the project.

"Governor Perry has been 100 percent gung-ho in building this road," says Corsi. "The Legislature voted a two-year moratorium, it voted a redefinition of eminent domain -- [and] Governor Perry vetoed them. [On] at least one of those measures, he waited until the Texas Legislature was out of session so it couldn't even override his veto."

Corsi says it is unfortunate that there has been political pressure to get the project started. "The Federal Highway Administration's lawyer wrote letters threatening the Texas Legislature to cut off federal highway funds if they got in the way of this Trans-Texas Corridor," he says.

Corsi believes the same pressure will be applied on other states, like Oklahoma, to go along with the project. He suggests that would mean a loss of more American jobs and could pose a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

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April 17, 2011----513 People Crammed Into Two Mexican Trucks Bound for US

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said. The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, "were traveling in inhuman conditions" in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general's office said in a statement. Police stopped the trucks, carrying 240 and 273 people, on the outskirts of state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez early Tuesday, after they accelerated through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint, the statement said. Officers chased down the vehicles shortly afterward, it added.

Police detained the Mexican drivers of the two trucks, and the migrants were provided with aid and food, the statement said. Mexican lawmakers last month unanimously approved a law to "strengthen the protection and security" of migrants amid widespread abuse. Rights groups have long criticized Mexico for failing to protect tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, trying to cross the vast country to illegally enter the US each year. The gruesome discovery of 72 murdered migrants from Central and South America in northeastern Tamaulipas state last August increased pressure on the government to act. Copyright 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.

SOURCE http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/mexico-detains-513-people-crammed-into-two-us-bound-trucks-20110517-ncx

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April 12, 2011----US Taxpayers Pay To Upgrade Mexican Trucks, US Trucks Not So Lucky
http://radioviceonline.com/ Steve McGough
FR Posted by Biggirl

A story broke yesterday concerning the retrofit of more than 100 trucks from Mexico that do not meet United States environmental standards. Our federal government is paying to upgrade these trucks, yet when the state of California and the EPA set new rules for US-owned trucks, they fine companies who do not comply.

This post is not about the environment, it concerns how US trucking companies are treated by the federal and state government as compared to Mexican-owned rigs. From AzCentral.com. For air-quality regulators, the border creates a legal barrier.

State and federal agencies can’t force vehicles manufactured and bought in Mexico to comply with U.S. emissions rules, even though the trucks cross into this country.

So the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality tried a different approach, offering to pay Mexican truck owners to replace old mufflers with new catalytic converters that will reduce harmful diesel emissions by up to 30 percent. The project in effect circumvents the more lax Mexican rules about exhaust systems. (Excerpt) Read more at radioviceonline.com

58 posted on 09/05/2011 6:20:38 AM PDT by Liz (The rule of law must prevail. We canÂ’t govern ourselves by our personal point of view.)
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PING TO POST #58


59 posted on 09/05/2011 6:23:22 AM PDT by Liz (The rule of law must prevail. We canÂ’t govern ourselves by our personal point of view.)
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To: Liz; Tempest; rintense; South40; Yosemitest; sarasmom; Condor51; TADSLOS; dragnet2

Same ol crap....

Illegal immigrants FIRST

American taxpayers LAST


60 posted on 09/05/2011 7:01:08 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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