Gardasil was a kerfuffle over nothing. My daughter opted out in 2003...due to Rick Perry’s legislation. She doesn’t ever have to opt out again and SHE gets to decide whether her kids get the needle or not. End of that story.
The Trans Texas Corridor is being built today because the US Congress ordered it, not Rick Perry. We had some problems with the expansion and it’s been re-routed. Problem solved, by Rick Perry. And it continues to be built because the US Congress ordered it so.
Texas does not irresponsibly spend. However the federally unfunded mandates quadrupled over the last five years and we had a debt problem with FEDERAL SPENDING. When the democrats handed down the stimulus money, Rick Perry saw an opportunity to solve our problems by suing and getting these strings of the shovel-ready jobs removed from it and WON! Then he took the feds money and he paid off the feds debt from their unfunded mandates and we’ve balanced our budget and we’re not funding those mandates again. It was a brilliant move by Perry.
His interest in the Sanctuary Cities wasn’t newborn. He got the legislation put before the legislature, the legislasture couldn’t agree to pass it. He pulled it back up into the special session and the legislature still quibbled. Even though it had many of the same clauses AZ1070 has.
All the Texas Dream Act does is allow in-state tuition PAID by these children who have mostly lived here all their lives and for whom everything that was bought for them was taxed and supported the state. Texas college and university system is full of foreign students who’ve never put a dime into this state like these kids have, including out of state kids. Not only that, in order to qualify for in-state tuition, they have to get in line like everybody else and apply for citizenshhip if they intend to stay, or join our military.
Rick Perry and our AG filed an amicus brief in support of AZ’s 1070 and any other legislation they want to pass to protect their state. That’s not WEAK!
Obviously you have another candidate in mind, Sarah Palin. It’ll be interesting to see whether you present all the democrapic propaganda they produce against her like it is the truth, as you have with Perry. I suspect you’ll be screeching and squawling like a banshee monkey in the trees.
I can certainly support Sarah Palin’s PROVEN record of success without trashing my own governor’s PROVEN RECORD of success. Can you? I doubt it. Closed minds and loose lips sink ships.
You may well have a good point on Perry’s acceptance of stimulus money. On the Az issue, I saw Perry with my own eyes REJECT their strategy. That is weak, IMO. Re the in-state tuition for illegals issue, I simply have a big philosophical difference about this. Americans owe illegals nothing, IMO. There are many good folks among the illegals, but there is no question that the coddling of Hispanics illicitly entering has placed an unbearable burden on our education, medical and penal systems. There is no argument on this one. Bob