Posted on 09/20/2011 11:09:40 AM PDT by Mozilla
Texas Tea Party leaders are unhappy with Gov. Rick Perry’s immigration-related positions and want him to call another special legislative session to give state lawmakers a third opportunity to ban sanctuary cities.
“This is an issue that is simmering and bubbling up to the surface … We are tired of lip service. We are fed up. We are fed up, too, Gov. Perry,” Texas Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee chair JoAnn Fleming of Tyler said Monday.
Perry declared sanctuary cities an emergency issue in January and put it back on the legislative agenda in June after lawmakers failed to approve legislation during the regular session. Legislation to ban so-called sanctuary cities – and subject anyone stopped for a traffic violation to document their citizenship – also failed during the special session.
Tea Party leaders said they thought they had Perry’s support following a June 28th meeting in the governor’s Capitol office.
“I left the room with the impression that a second special session would be an option,” said Katrina Pierson, founder of the Garland Tea Party and a member of the Dallas Tea Party steering committee.
The response from the governor’s office is not likely to satisfy Tea Party leaders.
Fleming said she and other Tea Party leaders are not concerned that a special legislative session would conflict with Perry’s presidential campaign.
“It’s not our business to run his campaign and to figure out his polticial strategy, spin or whatever on any issue,” she said. “We want to make sure that our colleagues around the country in the Tea Party grassroots movement have their questions answered.
“We figured there might not be a good chance of that happening unless we called it out,” she said.
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I hope Palin is ready to run. A long year of waiting. But she would take the lead if she entered.
Yep, it’s down to a couple of Compassionate Conservatives in Perry and Romney....both get bad grades on Illegal Immigration, both suck at the Crony Cap teat, neither worth spit except as compared to Obummer.
Americans don’t take those jobs. I live in the South, where we have abundant numbers of unemployed blacks and rural whites, and nobody shows up for the laborer jobs except Latin Americans.
The blacks expect the employers to pick them up in a van and then never show up anyway, and the whites will work a day and then quit because “only Mexicans” would do that work. The work might be roofing or something unpleasant, but if you want a job, you’ve got to do it.
Semi-literate blacks and whites here, who could be the laborers, are living off the bennies given to their baby mommas, and the only people who will actually show up for the jobs are foreigners, particularly Latin Americans.
And this is after the federal government has spent a fortune on “job training” for our native unemployed, who all seem to think they are cut out for something better than landscaping or roofing...even though they’re less literate than the Mexicans and use more drugs and alcohol than anybody would have thought possible.
I guess his ‘balance’ to that is to run guns to Mexico so that it remains a somewhat worse place to be! /s /sort of
Ping!
Yea, he has a serious problem with is love of foreigners and giving away Texans’ money and safety to them.
I bet Palin, being a McCain gal, is no different.
>> Irresponsible attacks on Perry only help Romney.
Agreed.
Not all generalizations apply. You see, my SNL is a landscaper. He’s white, btw. The Mexicans can’t keep up with him. He is the supervisor and runs circles around them. At the end of the day they are draggin ass from trying to keep up with him. Meanwhile, he’s just gettin started. Now he does his side jobs til after dark. Then back on the job next day by 6:30am.
Point is, there are exceptions to every generalization.
Actually, they are not attacks. Rather, they are exposures to the real Rick Perry.
When the threads begin promoting Romney, if ever, then he is next in line for exposure for all of his malfeasance.
So no, exposing Perry has zero to do with promoting Romney.
Nice try though.
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