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A tale of two governors: Florida's Rick Scott and Texas' Rick Perry
St. Petersburg Times ^ | janet Zink

Posted on 07/11/2011 2:30:32 PM PDT by Clairity

Scott said he talks to his counterpart every two to three weeks.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: State jobless rate: 10.6 percent; Texas Gov. Rick Perry: State jobless rate: 8 percent.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: 7,000+ jobs lost at Kennedy Space Center due to shuttle end; Texas Gov. Rick Perry: 4,100 jobs lost at Johnson Space Center in Houston. [Obama is killing jobs in both Florida and Texas]

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Was a co-owner of the Texas Rangers; Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Dispatched Texas Rangers to protect U.S. border.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Led the nation in job creation in May; Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Led the nation in job creation for seven years.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Potential Perry backer in 2012 presidential race; Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Potential 2012 presidential candidate.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: elections; gardasil; goresrinoperry; perry; perry4gardasil; perry4openborders; rickperry; rickscott; rinoperry; rovesrinoperry; therinoperry
Good news for Perry -- Florida is a key state to carry in 2012.
1 posted on 07/11/2011 2:30:37 PM PDT by Clairity
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To: Clairity

Perry is not as conservative as people seem to think.

Thank God we have a Constitutionally weak Governor


2 posted on 07/11/2011 2:32:46 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Clairity
Gosh. I wonder if they're both Pices.
3 posted on 07/11/2011 2:36:50 PM PDT by Mobties (Reduce the government footprint! Let the markets work!)
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To: Clairity
I don't see many similarities between the two.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Unknown baldy business exec who won GOP primary in a huge upset and now in the first term of his first political office.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Perfected groomed good-haired Governor who always wins predictable victories against laughable opponents and has been a career politician.

Might as well do an article comparing all the similarities of Congressman Ron Paul and Congressman Alan Greyson. Let's see... ummm they're both anti-war, right? Wow, practically twins!

4 posted on 07/11/2011 2:37:25 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: GeronL

>Perry is not as conservative as people seem to think.

Well, he didn’t cave in to obama’s commands that he not execute a mexican killer. Perry still executed the illegal alien mofo. Maybe he hates obama more so he did it, who knows..


5 posted on 07/11/2011 2:44:08 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FAK BARAK)
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To: max americana

I am glad the Pardons & Parole Commission didn’t cave in to the pressure.

All Perry could have done is given the fool a 30-day reprieve


6 posted on 07/11/2011 2:47:42 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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7 posted on 07/11/2011 2:48:45 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Clairity

“Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Potential Perry backer in 2012 presidential race; Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Potential 2012 presidential candidate.”

I’d much rather have Scott.


8 posted on 07/11/2011 2:49:05 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: max americana

Yeah, but usama killed BinLaden, all by himself.


9 posted on 07/11/2011 2:57:10 PM PDT by itsahoot (Fair warning--I will vote for Palin, if I have to write her in. --He that hath an ear, let him hear.)
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To: Clairity

Clearly, Open-border RINO Perry has much to answer for.

Did they mandate Gardasil by the Governor's Executive Order
in Florida, like RINO Perry did in Texas?

10 posted on 07/11/2011 3:08:17 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: GeronL
Thank God we have a Constitutionally weak Governor

An excerpt from an article on that very subject:

"Government textbooks and the Texas Constitution say that ours is a weak-governor state. A strict constructionist would insist that the governor’s power is largely limited to making appointments to state boards and commissions and to vetoing bills. In practice, the political power of the governor has expanded dramatically over the past four decades. Governor Perry has upended the political culture by establishing what amounts to a cabinet form of government.

The governor’s office isn’t just a power center; it is the power center. Every high-level appointee answers to Perry. Every agency head answers to Perry. He is able to dominate the Legislature in ways no governor before him did. Perry’s will to power has reshaped the traditional leadership roles. Before he came along, it was acknowledged that the lieutenant governor was the state’s most powerful official.

This situation is not entirely of Perry’s making. The cultural change that paved the way for the governor’s office to become 
the power center of state government was the arrival of two prominent politicians. These were, of course, Ann Richards and George W. Bush, our first modern celebrity governors."

11 posted on 07/11/2011 3:31:59 PM PDT by Texan
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To: Clairity
Bring Rubio on the ticket and it's a lock. also consider Perry is well known by all the Republicans Governors. He would have their backing should he run.
12 posted on 07/11/2011 3:52:44 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Clairity

I wonder if this moron journalist realizes that Florida led the nation in job creation last month? 28,000 jobs created in Florida, making it more than the rest of the country combined.


13 posted on 07/11/2011 4:23:13 PM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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From the article:

“Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Led the nation in job creation in May; Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Led the nation in job creation for seven years. “


14 posted on 07/11/2011 8:37:25 PM PDT by Clairity ("The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected." -- VP Dick Cheney)
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