Perry, Social Conservatives and the Road to the Top
Twenty-six years after he rode into Austin as a Democratic House member from Haskell, Rick Perry sits at the top of one of the country's most conservative state Republican parties, having forged a coalition of economic, religious and social conservatives that has helped him become the state's longest-serving governor and poised for a national political run.
When he started, two of those groups weren't always welcome at the Republican table. Perry, who started his political career with "D-Haskell" appended to his name, fully consolidated his hold on the Texas GOP in March of 2010 with his crushing ...
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Gail Allen
Rick Perry 2012!!!
Karen Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is anybody sick of Perry yet?
Eddie Laury via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I am! Getting tired of all these puff pieces about Perry and how great it is here in Texas. For the cheap labor business lobby it's great, for the rest of us not so much. We are not all Conservatives here and personally I'm sick of being pigeonholed because of the idiots who show up to vote here.
Justin Mihalyi via Texas Tribune on Facebook
dear lord yes, he needs to be gone. we'd be better off with a trained monkey being governor
Lee Dunkelberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
When you're a chameleon, it's easy to be all things to all people.
All hair . . . no cattle,
Teresa Saldivar via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He is the circus ringmaster...Lol
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He has moved where the Koch brothers told him to go.
Billie Veach via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He doesn't do anything for elderly rural teachers pension. $108 in
cash and no increase since 1999 and will now be 2013.. he should
understand he was once a starving farmer and the USDA helped
him out in 1979.. Old folks don't matter to him..If conservative means
not giving an 80 year old former teacher a raise since 1999, I consider
that criminal..Dell and Shell would be in jail if they did the same thing.
Katie Plass via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I wonder what it's like for the Tribune writers to re-write the same story every couple days.
Billie Veach via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I have asked them to look into the 12 years and how the retired 80yr OLDER teachers are treated.. $1500 a month, newer urban retired
teacher $ 36,000 a year...Wish he could remember the beans and
cornbread he had to eat in the late 70s when they were losing the farm..the Attny Gen was supposed to look into the $108 Billion that
is in our pension plan but republicans take care of republicans I guess.
On the Koch Brothers we need to find out their products and not
buy them.. I know Brawny paper towels was one of them I was told..
the more money we take away from not buying, the less they have
to railroad and control the Republican candidates...the greedy ones.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What a croc... Perry rode in on the illegal redistricting done by now FELON Tom DeLay in 2000. Please GOPTeaparty--run Goodhair for President in 2012. That would give REAL Texans a national platform to show how the Tea Bigots stole our state and maybe, finally marginalize their influence. The Spirit of Ann Richards may be down, but will never be forgotten !!!
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@ Tom Sweazea - AMEN BROTTHER!
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hope the moron runs, he is going to get his ass kicked all the way back to TX