Posted on 07/09/2014 2:55:07 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Gov. Rick Perry Monday turned down what he characterized as President Barack Obama’s offer for a “quick handshake on the tarmac” at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Wednesday, but said he would juggle his schedule to accommodate a “substantive meeting” with the president on the border crisis any time during his two-day visit to Texas.
In a letter to the president, Perry wrote, “I appreciate the offer to greet you at Austin-Bergstrom Airport, but a quick handshake on the tarmac will not allow for a thoughtful discussion regarding the humanitarian and national security crises enveloping the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. I would instead offer to meet with you at any time during your visit to Texas for a substantive meeting to discuss this critical issue. With the appropriate notice, I am willing to change my schedule to facilitate this request.”
“At any point while you are here, I am available to sit down privately so we can talk and you may directly gain my state’s perspective on the effects of an unsecured border and what is necessary to make it secure,” Perry wrote the president.
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Well that was just racist.
he received a slap on the shoulder
Perry forgot his Hand Sanitizer
He got his meeting.
Perry should have talked to BO the dog ,he’d get more help
He is wearing his ring....
Are we gonna beat up Perry again?
I say good on him!
They met in Dallas not the Austin article info. That was at the DWF airport where they
boarded Marine One for a flight to Love field.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/rick-perry-greet-obama-dallas-tarmac-108719.html
Here we go.
Jeez, Obama is the dick,not Perry.
Perry sux he should have Nat Guard on that border...last week!!
Pettiness is nothing new around here.
Shoot at Obamaa jerk weed.
wahhhmbulaance en route
Wve demanded Nat gauard on the border here and gotten it.
You know the drill.
Posse comitattus and all that, we get them and they are unarmed.
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