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 ...
Well, I think that pretty much sums it up. We're fortunate as a nation that conservatives at the national level don't have such cold feet when it comes to taking on Obama.
Nice chatting with you, Bob, have a wonderful 4th! :)
“Nice chatting with you, Bob, have a wonderful 4th! :) “
I’m with you, thanks...enjoy the fireworks too!!
The truth of the matter is that the Rangers had nothing at all to do with the Chicken Democrats, aka the Killer D's returning to Texas from where they were holed up in Albuquerque, New Mexico for 48 days back in the summer of 2003 enjoying the protection of the New Mexico state police. Rep Tom Delay and NOT Rick Perry led the charge to have them arrested by FBI agents or U.S. Marshals but that didn't happen.
The Democrats' efforts collapsed when one TX state senator broke a self-imposed exile in New Mexico and returned to the TX Senate floor for the third special session. All the aforementioned facts are verifiable via Google searches on this subject.
It’s tiresome. We’ve had several threads with the same old lies, some misleading statements and if you don’t care for Perry, that’s fine but there are many many that do, by the pure fact that he has been in different offices and our governor here so long.
Downright eerie how Perry’s people talked about Merck product on same day Merck gave Perry money
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790722/posts
Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor plan is a hard sell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961128/posts
Senators: Perry evading law with expired appointments
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889198/posts
Texas Eminent Domain Bill Vetoed By Govenor Perry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852635/posts
Campaign to impeach Gov. Perry launched online
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884086/posts
Tempers Flare At Trans-Texas Corridor Hearing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969878/posts
Secretive Bilderberg meeting set for Turkey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1842676/posts
Karl in a Corner
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_scott_ho_080408_karl_in_a_corner.htm
Second, Rove’s opponents would regularly find that they had suddenly become the target
of a criminal investigation, and details concerning the investigation would be
aggressively fanned to the press. Rove mastered this technique in a contest
for the Texas Agriculture Commissioner’s post that he managed for now-Governor Rick Perry.
It Started in Texas: Karl Rove’s Political Prosecutions
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000569
1. Rove was hired to run the campaign of Rick Perry, the current governor,
for the powerful Texas office of Commissioner of Agriculture, then held by
Democrat Jim Hightower. Shortly thereafter, it was clear that a major
FBI investigation had been launched into the workings of the Texas Agriculture
Department (TDA), focusing on Hightower and his senior lieutenants, who had been
pursuing a populist, anti-corporate agriculture and pro-small-farmer agenda.
Jim Hightower talks about his new book, “Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and it’s Time to Take it Back”
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/08/21_hightower.html
HIGHTOWER: Rick Perry, back then (currently Texas Governor), was his client, so to speak,
and Perry had been recruited. He was sort of a nothing Texas legislator who had been brought
in — again as an affable fellow without any brain muscle. Perry was essentially sent to
wander around out in West Texas during the campaign so he would be out of the way,
while Rove worked this FBI agent and raised money from the chemical industry
and other corporate interests that opposed me. Rove had George Bush go on
television against me. Then Rove ran a series of television ads that
established a new low in negative advertising.
For example, they showed a long-haired guy setting a flag on fire,
and throwing it on the ground. And then my picture came up out of the fire, and said
“Hightower supports flag burning,” which, of course, I don t. But it doesn t matter,
you know. I had to go around answering: “Why do you support flag burning?”
Rove had another ad of me campaigning with Jesse Jackson, who I supported in 1988
in the Presidential campaign. And Rove ran this ad that essentially was a smear
on Jackson and then tying me to him. The ad so angered the Black Caucus in the State Legislature
that they convened their own press conferences in Houston and Dallas to assail it. But again it was too late.
All this was happening in the last three weeks of the election. So, I mean, that s just who the guy is.
Gay rumors complicate Rick Perry’s presidential prospects
http://rt.com/usa/news/gay-rick-perry-campaign/
Naked City The Real Sins of Gov. Perry
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2004-02-27/198958/
On Tuesday morning, a small group of protesters (almost outnumbered by reporters and photographers)
gathered at the Governor’s Mansion for what was disingenuously billed as a “support rally” for Gov. Rick Perry,
under the theme, “It’s OK to Be Gay.” As any Austinite with access to e-mail or a cell phone knows by now,
for a couple of months rumors concerning the governor’s personal life have been flying furiously around the Capitol,
the capital city, the state, and indeed most of the Western Hemisphere.
The variations are multiple and quite inventive – we won’t recount them here –
but at their core is the tale that the governor’s marriage is in trouble, that his
wife Anita has/will/may decide to divorce him, and that the issue is Rick’s alleged infidelity,
with one or another member of his administration of undetermined gender.
(Rumors of this sort, about multitudinous politicians, circulate all the time,
but the current Perry rumors are indeed extraordinary in their baroque detail and remarkable persistence.)
Wow, I had no clue that Perry was gay, or at least a rumor of it. I hope voters take that into account - especially with all of the legislative and judicial stuff on the issue.
Thanks for the info.
Well, a handful of people have decided that what they’re going to do is post every single flattering article on the internet about Perry. 90% of freepers with an opinion are not fans.
The only thing I really knew about Perry until less than a month ago were
1) forced vaccinations
2) trans texas corridor
3) Bilderberg.
1+2+3 = Globalist = Unacceptable
But then I started doing more research, and found stuff like “gay rumor” and “Karl Rove managed his first campaign as a Republican, after getting Perry to switch from Democrat”
And “Perry supported Giuliani first in 08”
And Perry’s resume just gets worse and worse.
You don’t like Perry, you’ve told me before, I get it.
Gotta go, have a wonderful 4th! :)
For the lack of a better or more fitting metaphor this is what happens when one turns on the bright overhead light in dimly lit infested filthy kitchen at night in a some quarters.
“Well, a handful of people have decided that what they’re going to do is post every single flattering article on the internet about Perry. 90% of freepers with an opinion are not fans.”
True, and expected. I finally convinced myself that the Trans-Texas Corridor supporters were operating out of his office, as they would not argue facts, but instead attack opponents, and they seemed to know stuff about the governor and his plans that only insiders would know (those things showed up on other threads).
As far as this run for Prez, who knows. I suspect there are some honest supporters (rather than people paid to support him), but you can never be sure.
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.
They went out of state [New Mexico and Oklahoma] thus beyond the jurisdiction of the Texas law enforcement. Eventually they returned and redistricting was passed.
**...they were holed up in Albuquerque, New Mexico for 48 days back in the summer of 2003 enjoying the protection of the New Mexico state police. Rep Tom Delay and NOT Rick Perry led the charge to have them arrested by FBI agents or U.S. Marshals but that didn’t happen.**
I admit that I’d forgotten about Albuquerque. I remembered Oklahoma because our local news showed video of the Dems up there every evening. I also either forgot or never knew that Delay, as House Majority Leader, had a hand in getting the Dems back from New Mexico. (I did Google)
Now, I’ve confused myself!! Perhaps it was the DPS officers rather than the Rangers who escorted the Dems back from OK. ......Yeah, I know, I’m gettin’ long in the tooth!
I’m not accusing the people who post article after article after article of being paid. I’m just saying it’s annoying, even if honest passion.
If memory serves they left twice, the first time to OK for a short stint and then again later on for the longer one to NM until one of the Dems decided he’d had enough (so some believed) and decided enough was enough and called to say he was breaking the stalemate. I too am getting a bit longer in that tooth and have to rely on Google to refresh my lapsing memory from time to time.
DO NOT vote for any candidate that is soft on illegal immigration, comprehensive immigration reform.
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