Posted on 07/02/2011 9:06:42 PM PDT by smoothsailing
June 30, 2011
The Honourable James Richard 'Rick' Perry
Governor of the State of Texas
State Insurance Building
1100 San Jacinto
Austin, Texas 78701
Governor Perry:
We write to express, in the strongest possible terms, our disappointment over the outcome of the regular and special sessions of the 82nd Legislature, in which every single one of the dozens of common-sense immigration reform bills died.
As you are most likely aware, the overwhelming body of polling data shows that Texans are extremely concerned about the effects of unchecked illegal immigration on our state...
(Letter continues at link-you do not have to be a Texas resident to sign the letter)
This post is for information and discussion purposes, not to endorse or not endorse the letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at grassrootstexans.net ...
Perry is all hat and no cattle!
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True. The only vote he’ll get from this native Texan is if he does get the GOP nod, I’ll vote for him over Obama. But, until then, he’ll NOT get my vote.
I oughta be able to get my dog in the race, and I can prove he was born here, I've got the papers!
“The Grassroots Texans Network” being who?
Two hundred thousand Texas citizens who gather weekly to debate policy? Some guy with a fax machine who when not lecturing the Texas government talks to his stuffed bunny? The giggling executive director of the Austin Democratic Party Committee?
Go to the link, grasshopper, all your questions will be answered. :)
Hey org, where you from in Virginia? I was born and raised in the Tidewater area.
The other end of the state, in the wonderful mountains.
I'd very much take issue with that statement. If Guv Perry really wanted that legislation he would have been in there with sleeves rolled up and got it passed. He is just trying have conservatives vote for him while falsely claiming to be conservative and still have the Mexican slave labor abundantly available for his big business chummy campaign donors. I know for one that I cannot in good conscience vote for the man should he get the nomination. I'll vote most any real conservative third party candidate before I'd cast a vote for open borders sell-out RINO Rick Perry.
I would NOT vote for him over Obama! I would rather see Obama bring this festering boil to a head so it can be lanced than have another sweet talking, no action, RINO lead us along the same path, just at a slower pace. If the country is not ready to CHANGE direction yet, so be it. I will support Obama if “they” force another clown down our throats.
“I take it you don’t think much of Perry, is that right?”
Nope - I have no trust in Al Gore’s 1988 Texas campaign manager...especially when he keeps dumping new schemes on us (like vacinating little girls so that they can have wild sex starting in middle school) and playing us for IDIOTS (such as when he gets his cronies in the legislature to kill our Sanctuary City bill...so he doesn’t have to sign it).
And he hasn’t done crap about the border, other than whine once in a while. He’s clearly the worst Republican governor on that issue in a state anywhere near Mexico.
Several years ago the Dems in the Texas legislature all left the State and went to Oklahoma to prevent the presence of a quorum required for voting on bills. Very similar to what happened this year in Wisconsin and Indiana.
They spent a couple of weeks lounging around the pools and bars at their hotels/motels.
The Gov obtained warrants and Texas Rangers were used to force the Dems to return to Austin to do the jobs they were elected to do.
I don’t recall what the major issue was at the time.
“I take it you don’t think much of Perry, is that right?”
I just can’t see the point of nominating someone we have to keep trying to drag to the right...just as we had to do with W (i.e., amnesty, Harriet Miers, etc.)
How about we nominate a REAL conservative, sit back, and enjoy watching him straighten out the country?
The dims ran and hid during the redistricting battle. That is one reason I signed up on FR in 03.
For you and your buddies.
Facts are facts. I have had it with spinners, msm and blogs.If you don’t like Perry fine. Just don’t throw out BS from someone else and expect everyone to just go....oh my I will never vote for him.
I find that process quite insulting.
It is the same thought process of the Zero Dummies.
american People are toooo stupid to do their own research on a candidate. So just throw out ANY accusation (since that is ALL you are doing) and the idiot American people will believe it.
I submit at LEAST I WENT TO SCHOOL.
Your moronic post doesn’t defend Perry’s actual record very well. Why am I not surprised.
How sad. When you are faced with reality you resort to Personal attack.
One of the rules of FR. NO PERSONAL ATTACKS.
Well Bob, to hear you tell it, we should have an extremely low opinion of Texas voters and Texans in general.
How in the world can those cactus spitting yahoos keep on re-electing such a corrupt and incompetent clod? Out of 25 million Texans isn't there even one who will step forward to challenge "the worst Republican governor" so Perry can be thrown out?
If Perry doesn't run for president will Texans just keep on re-electing him, are they that stupid?
Personally, I find all this hard to believe, and apparently I have a much higher opinion of Texas voters than you do. I get the distinct impression that they keep re-electing Perry because they think he's better than anybody he runs against. He's not perfect, who is, but Texas seems to be thriving, so he hasn't screwed things up enough to be hung or run out of town on a rail.
It wasn’t a personal attack. You spent about 200 letters not making a point. That’s moronic.
I'd forgotten about that, thanks. The dems do get petulent when they can't have their way.
I wouldn't expect a Republican controlled legislature to behave like that, so I guess it would be a little easier to round them up this time around.
“Well, to hear you tell it, we should have an extremely low opinion of Texas voters and Texans in general.”
Don’t agree. Texas voters do JUST FINE when given a chance to vote for a conservative. They put Dan Patrick in the State Senate with 70% of the primary vote, when he wasn’t even the favorite (the favorite was a sitting State House member - Patrick was a no one, but he was a conservative).
“How in the world can those cactus spitting yahoos keep on re-electing such a corrupt and incompetent clod?”
Have you seen the competition he’s had to run against. No big-name conservative will take him on - it’s the POWER of incumbency. Perry was NOT elected governor in a contested election (i.e., he never had to run in a contested primary for governor) - rather he was PROMOTED to governor when W became president.
“Out of 25 million Texans isn’t there even one who will step forward to challenge “the worst Republican governor” so Perry can be thrown out?”
I do think Dan Patrick will take him on in 2014, assuming that he stays governor...but prior to that, see my prior answer.
“If Perry doesn’t run for president will Texans just keep on re-electing him, are they that stupid?”
No. He’ll have to justify himself (finally) in a primary the next time around - that is for sure.
“Personally, I find all this hard to believe, and apparently I have a much higher opinion of Texas voters than you do.”
Don’t agree - that’s your conclusion.
“I get the distinct impression that they keep re-electing Perry because they think he’s better than anybody he runs against.”
I agree on that - but that sure as heck doesn’t say anything good about him.
“He’s not perfect, who is, but Texas seems to be thriving...”
We missed out on the housing bubble, and we are doing good, just as other states that missed out on the bubble. The biggest thing that kept us out of trouble was our laws severely limiting home equity withdraws...and that pre-dates Perry (although, to his credit, he didn’t try to change them).
“...so he hasn’t screwed things up enough to be hung or run out of town on a rail.”
Anyone Republican short of Lincoln Chaffee could have kept Texas on a good track. W did fine, even Ann Richards (a Democrat) did fine. Even the Democrats here are generally civil and actually CARE about the state (and many are pro-life and pro-death penalty).
When you’re handed a state to run that is set-up as well as Texas, you would actively want to wreck it in order to do any damage. We Republicans learned that the HARD WAY when W thought that all Democrats behaved like Texas Democrats, just to have his head handed to him in DC. Why the hell do we have to repeat that lesson again?
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