Texas resident here....Rick Perry has done virtually Zilch to shore up the Texas border with Mexico. The budget surplus is 8 billion but a $1 cigarette tax was foisted on us that Perry signed. He is a pretty boy version of Jeb Bush in my opinion....conservative light at best. Better than a Lib Dem though fer sure fer sure.
I've pretty much thought the same about Perry. I made a comment about the borders and Perry several days ago and someone responded with all that Perry is doing on the border and he seemed pretty unhappy with my attitude. He said that it's not the states job to take care of the border, only the feds can.