Posted on 09/05/2009 2:12:42 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Texas needs to lead, not secede, the state's governor told supporters during a Wednesday campaign stop in Lubbock. Gov. Rick Perry shrugged off a lone shout for secession from the back of a crammed coffee shop as he ticked through the highlights of his gubernatorial career. "My deal is, you know what? Let's just show the rest of the nation how to do it right," Perry said.
Perry told the crowd of more than 100 overflowing the small space that a stable state economy proved the value of state-level leadership as Washington Republicans behaved like Democrats. "Hogwash, I mean that's just hogwash," Perry said of federal Republicans voting in support of bailout funds.
The afternoon address was part of an ongoing campaign against an opponent he would not even say was in the race. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who announced her candidacy in Lubbock two weeks ago, could offer Perry's toughest challenge in a gubernatorial primary this spring.
He responded to criticism levied earlier this week from her campaign that he spent taxpayer money crossing the state to ceremonially re-sign bills passed last spring. Most all of the money had come from campaign funds and the events helped educate Texans about new laws, he said. "I travel across the state of Texas all the time and I think people want to see their governor," Perry said. "I consider that to be a deflection, because the people making those criticisms don't have any ideas to improve the state."
Hutchison spokesman Jeff Sadosky pointed to comments made by Perry's own staff earlier this week that state money had funded the trips. That was hardly the work of a fiscal conservative, he said. "More and more Texans are looking for a conservative they can trust and they certainly can't trust any of Rick Perry's claims," Sadosky said.
Liz Stephenson, a 66-year-old small business owner, arrived too late to get within earshot of the governor in the small room. She'd attended the Hutchison event in mid-August and wanted to hear Perry's stance on taxes and other business issues. "The small person is what the majority of taxpayers are," Stephenson said. "I'm concerned about how things are going, both in the state and nationally."
Layden Siders, a 66-year-old retiree and agricultural chemicals consultant, liked what he heard. He worried Hutchison would represent big cities, a path that could lead Lubbock in the same ruinous budget direction as California and other states. "I think Gov. Perry embodies what Texas is all about," Siders said. "I think (Hutchison)'s more liberal than she thinks she is."
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Perry’s angling for a White House run.
I have not kept up with Perry’s career.
Have his past actions matched his recent conservative pronouncements?
Or is this CINO election time posturing?
If Perry thinks that Texas needs to show the nation how to do it right, then we need to remove Perry and the rest of the parasites from Austin and replace them with consistent conservatives.
The only good thing I can say about Perry is that he isn’t KBH. What an awful choice, but Republicans, like everyone else, vote for brand names. No one really places principles and willingness to act on them first.
Yep. He was invited to the Build a burger meeting in Turkey a year or so ago.
He's not angling, he’z being angled.
This is more evidence of the influence of Sarah Palin on the republican party, it has made the candidates and the rhetoric more bold and confident.
Check out Debra Medina.
Hutchison versus Perry ... versus Medina? (TX)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330444/posts
Debra Medina on property rights and a move from property to sales taxes (TX)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2330300/posts
Debra Medina Texas Governor 2010
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2317481/posts
Perry’s angling for a White House run.
He maybe availble for a full time run come Jan. 2011. This will get nasty before it’s over.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/08/rick-perry-says-some-gop-gover.html
Indeed.
Considering that here in Texas we have Constables, Independent School District Police, County Sheriff Office, Municipal Police, and Highway Patrol and State Police all in the same area plus some ungodly MUD taxes, car inspection routines fees, and lord help ya when you register a car from out of state, and no open carry laws period.
I’d say Texas government talks a talk they don’t walk.
He’d never get my vote in a million years!!!!!
One was enough from Texas in recent history.
Yes. I lived in TX the last 12 years. I wouldn’t trust him. His personal boondoggle is the Trans Texas Corridor, a road to bus in illegals as cheap labor. It’s finally being killed.
Perry is spouting a lot of conservative rhetoric now, but hasn’t consistently done this. RINO in my book. But, not much else to choose from for governor. I don’t trust KBH more than Perry.
They both suck. He just sucks less.
If the people ever decide on secession it will spread like wildfire. No state house politician can or will be able to put a cap on it.
Of course, he is.
Has Perry always been as bold and conservative sounding in his rhetoric as he seems to be this year?
I didn’t notice his strong conservative language and colorful statements before 2009.
I can’t say anything about Perry sounding “bold.” What I can say is that my antennae went up in regard to Perry and a presidential bid quite a while back.
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