I don’t know where “down here” is to you, but down here in Texas, where I live, Rick Perry has a lengthy reputation for being a nanny statist, private property grabber, corporate welfare cronyist and illegal alien hispanderer. When you wipe away his empty conservative rhetoric, Ol’ Rick has no real personal credibility to mean much.
Funny I live right here in Central Texas in the Devil’s Backbone country, home to the old German farmer stock that run our counties very conservatively with balanced budgets and some of the best well kept roads and bridges. Who work very well with Rick Perry.
Where is your ‘down here’?
In fact I worked very well with Rick Perry on my county’s ad hoc education committee when we inventoried the schools all over the state and found a lot of excess baggage using up money that should’ve been used in the classrooms.
Not to mention that I worked for 12 years right across the street from the capitol in both the Bush and Perry admins and got to know them both well.
Nope, no nanny statist business from Perry, works harder than anybody I know to bring companies in with jobs for us.
Private property grabber? Are you talking about the Trans Corridor that was to be built legislated by the US Congress? Yeah, we had a dust up about that but we solved it.
Corporate welfare cronyist? Yeah, I heard that rumor also. Too bad and independent review board oversees that money.
Illegal alien hispander? No, I don’t think so. He’s put more protection on our southern border than the feds have. Currently hiring vets and putting 100 game wardens down there who’ll have authority to patrol any land down there, including federal lands. Texas Dream Act? I worked on that committe also, reports came in favorably from almost every county except about 5 out of 272. Those kids are here, they’re not going anywhere, the feds won’t deport them, so why not allow them to ‘pay’ in state tuition, qualify them for jobs that will keep them off the welfare rolls instead of living off somebody else’s money the rest of their lives. Win/win for the state, didn’t cost us a dime.
Lots of silly rumors out there about Rick Perry thrown out there during the primary, mostly perpetuated by the Marxist commies in our own state.