[sickoflibs]

RE :”When he first took office as governor in 2001, Perry went to Mexico and bragged about his law that granted “the children of undocumented workers” special in-state tuition at Texas colleges, the first state in the nation to do so. “The message is simple,” Perry concluded, “educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.” Education is the future, and (echoing Cesar Chavez’s slogan) yes we can.] Just a few weeks ago, Perry defended his decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. He said “to punish these young Texans for their parents’ actions is not what America has always been about.” Perry opposed Arizona’s tough anti-illegal immigration law SB 1070. “I have concerns,” he explained, “with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas.” He spoke out last year against using E-Verify to prevent illegal immigrants from getting jobs as state employees, who get their paychecks from the taxpayers. He insisted it “would not make a hill of beans’ difference.”

Wow, even Marylanders are rebelling against in-state tuition subsidies for illegals.

Newsflash to Perry :Illegals cant work legally so they don't need us to pay for their college.

[hocndoc]

The law only allows for in state tuition. It does not change the qualifications for State aide or for citizenship. The restrictions are higher for the children of illegal aliens than they are for children of parents who live in other States.

Nevertheless, the Legislature passed the bill 10 years ago. They completely overhauled it in 2005. Both times, the vote was unanimous in the Senate and veto-proof in the House.
The People have not moved to overturn that law.

[Gilbo_3]

'in state' tuition regs are a real open window into this socialist mindset...

if a white kid from Ky cant pay texan or maryland rates to goto school, how can a brown kid from tijuana get the deal ???

pure pandering and vote buying, nothing more, nothing less...

politics were never meant to be a career...

[Liz]

PICTURED WITH PERRY: Some of Perry's choices for WH jobs?

2005 Houston Chronicle pic depicting Perry sucking up to Obama's strongarm and voter fraud facilitators--ACORN.
Perry is depicted as an advocate for "affordable housing," and "lending law reform" (read sub-prime defaults).

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I guess back then Perry knew all about the$e (/snix):

<><> Dept of Housing and Urban Development: $8.2 million between 2003 and 2006; $1.6 million to ACORN affiliates.

<><> EPA $100,000 grant to ACORN in 2004 for a Louisiana Justice Project, which removed lead from the homes of low income families.

<><> Justice Dept grant in 2005 for a juvenile delinquency program.

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According to later research, 40% of ACORN's operations were found to be funded through numerous grants it receives from various governmental entities. ACORN also receives funding from a variety of tax-exempt private charitable organizations: the Bauman Family Foundation, George Soros' Open Society Institute, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and from corporate foundations, including JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Ben & Jerry's foundation, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and Citigroup, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and tax-exempt foundations affiliated with the founder of UPS.

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Senate Finance Committee Study (led by Sen Charles Grassley)

ACORN comprises a mind-boggling 94 different affiliates, that amounts to "a big shell game," a biting Senate Finance Committee study shows.

The study, by the staff of Sen Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), reveals four ACORN charity groups give more than half their revenue to taxable entities that engage in "impermissible lobbying and political activity."

ACORN and it’s subsidiaries for decades have moved taxpayer money into their own pockets and into the left-wing Marxist machine.

Sen Charles Grassley's documents show leaders of ACORN community groups transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money-----meant for the poor---- to parts of the group that have political (and sometimes profit-making) missions.

Sen Grassley's documents indicate that ACORN's tax-exempt groups----along with its tangled web of allied organizations---- used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates.

ACORN also appears to have been involved in improper use of pension funds ..... some of the founder Rathke's embezzlement was apparently taken from the pension fund using ACORN's American Express card.

This displacement of funding led to the creation of a complex repayment system in which accused embezzler Dale Rathke owed ACORN, and ACORN in turn, owed ABA, which, for its part, wrote off part of the money. (Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ........

[Nextrush]

Perry is talking a new tune nowadays that’s a lot more conservative than his talk in the past.

Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and other wannabes are talking new tunes they never talked before.