Posted on 06/04/2014 9:47:00 PM PDT by South40
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As he gears up for a possible second presidential run, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is crisscrossing the country extolling a business-first philosophy he says made his state's economy white-hot — and can work for the rest of America too.
But back home, members of Perry's own party seem poised to dismantle key parts of his legacy. The longest-serving governor in state history isn't seeking re-election and may see two of his achievements — distributing hundreds of millions of dollars to attract top employers to Texas and stockpiling a rainy day fund robust enough to bankroll infrastructure projects — swept away not long after he moves out of the governor's mansion.
Also likely doomed is a Perry-backed program extending in-state university tuition to the children of immigrants in the country illegally,
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“Also likely doomed is a Perry-backed program extending in-state university tuition to the children of immigrants in the country illegally,”
Good. One of the dumbest things he ever did.
Don’t worry. Wendy will fix everything.
Of all the things not being done in this country, failure to fund legitimate infrastructure projects is the one that worries me most.
How, does she have free protection ?
Remember those "shovel-ready" projects in the porkulus bill? What happened there? Don't you think we should find out before spending more?
This article is incoherent.
I guess writers seek to confuse voters and to explain the republican divide to their fellow libs.
they must think Tea Partyers are as confused and weak without talking points as libs are.
How disappointed they will continue to be.
Perry is OK. His conservatism is not dependable.
Here’s a true situation:
A military family, of whom there are many in Texas, has high school kids when the sponsor/father retires. Not sure where they would end up, they maintain their residency in their home of record. On retirement, the oldest goes to college and dad then claims Texas as a residence. Not anticipating, or just putting up with the resulting out of state tuition for two years before being able to claim in state rates.
It’s a ton of dough.
The illegals don’t have to pay out of state tuition for two years. THey get it right away.
The military guy has dragged this group all over asia, left them alone for about three years added up with deployments, and all the other accoutrements of military life, serving his country, lived as a most contributory and lawful member of texas society, and he has to pay thousands extra where illegals pay nothing.
That is a very typical treatment of the non white Hispanic favoritism that thrives to push veterans aside.
And Perry’s face is all over it.
He wants a lot of out of staters to go to Texas. For what? Money? Will they bring a lot of liberal thought with them, turning Texas blue, ensuring permanence in the White House of what was once the Democrat party? English as a second language?
This article says nothing of that very real struggle.
And this is most definitely not a contest between wendy davis and Greg Abbott. She can’t even get the backing of democrat voters.
Apparently no good deed goes unpunished.
After the left dismantles Perry’s good projects .. the left will then turn them around as fuel to discredit Perry (showing what terrible things he did) .. so what else is new ..??
I hope people are ready for this.
The corporate hand outs I can do without
but...but.. Stimulus....
It ain’t a funding problem. More than adequate money goes to infrastructure. Mismanagedment is rampant. Just 5 years ago Obama pushed a trillion at stimulus. Little improvement resulted apparently.
here is Texas the conservative government has been skimming hiway funds fro gas taxes to go into the general fund. That is why there is a strong TEAQ party vote here.
It’s also why the roads are inadequate and failing to sustain the current residents, and wholly useless for growth projections.
Roads, water, electricity and low fuel costs will spur business development.
Of all the reasons for any Texas Tea Party popularity, your “reason” must have been a well kept secret or maybe I’ve been living in some other parallel “Texas” universe.
Texas Tea Party, like all the others was a grassroots ground swell by many previously Silent Majority voters, with many reasons to fight Gubmit waste and wrong-direction. As soon as the “self proclaimed leaders, with their tangent causes” emerged, participation in anything “official Tea Party” dwindled to almost non-existent.
The grassroots spirit is still alive, well and strong, helped giving us Ted Cruz and dumping the GOPe dudes in Austin.
Interesting how the mass media is more Democrat propaganda but less competent year over year.
This article is an anti-Perry smear piece, but so incoherent and poorly written, that you wonder why they bother.
Texans pay $3.5 billion into the fund annually through the gas tax and various vehicle licensing fees that apply only to drivers. Of this amount, nearly $1.5 billion is spent on items more properly funded with general revenue, including $725 million on public education and $765 million on social welfare programs including tourism and medical care.
Just wait until all those people he recruited to move to Texas from CA, NY, NJ, and New England register to vote. But hey, good on him for inviting them to move there...that’s just that many less migrating to my state.
And the benefit depends on rank. Its more of a benefit to a Col/General than a non-com.
So a commissioned military member claims Texas while living in/being stationed in California early in his career. By the time his kids go to college they have to go to college in Texas. If they were to attend college in CA, they would have to pay out of state tuition.
All states require that taxes be paid in that state for a minimum period before residency is established for the purpose of paying instate tuition. No doubt each state has different requirements, but they all have requirements.
The illegal gets the Texas instate tuition because he or his family has been paying taxes in Texas for the minimum period. If an illegal from California wants to attend college in Texas, he has to pay out of state tuition.
Stop
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the favorite to succeed Perry because he's successfully wooed both tea party activists and establishment conservatives, has expressed unease about the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Emerging Technology Fund, the two pots of money Perry has used to lure job-creators to Texas. Abbott says the government should "get out of the business of picking winners and losers."
Tea-party champion Ted Cruz, who defeated Perry's preferred candidate, David Dewhurst, for a U.S. Senate seat in 2012, suggested during a recent Austin visit that only the free market - not Republicans pulling economic strings - can create jobs.
The GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, and Abbott both say they'd like to wipe out the in-state tuition law Perry signed in 2001. The governor passionately defended the policy during his 2012 presidential run.
Meanwhile, Patrick, who will oversee legislation in the Texas Senate if he's elected - which is likely - has said he wants to refund the about $8 billion left in the state's rainy day fund to taxpayers rather than keep it on the government books.
Last year, Perry, supported by leading business groups, campaigned hard to spend $2 billion from the reserves on infrastructure projects to boost state water resources - a move he and other proponents said was vital to keep Texas economically competitive for the future.
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