Rick Perry Returns to Texas, and to Texas Politics
With Rick Perry’s star-crossed courtship of the national Republican electorate now ended, our attention turns — mercifully, some might say — back to the politics of his Texas re-entry. The governor returns to find Texas politics roiled, the electoral system in a state of flux as a result of a redistricting process that has run off the rails. Internecine conflict in the Texas GOP, already in evidence when the governor left to run for president, has increased with the inexorable approach of the party primaries.
The underlying fundamentals that buttressed Perry's political power in the state are not much changed ...
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Chris Apollo Lynn via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The survey data used in the piece is from October 2011. Perry hadn't had a chance to "shine" at that point. How would this piece have been written if the survey data was recent?
Andrew Redd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
can we please get a new govenor now?
Another 99%
The Corrupt Conservative Movement that is constantly distorting everything, is alive and well with Texas.
Raising Taxes, Fees, and Pollution, is the conservative ideology of the modern conservatives (Bush/Perry/Rove). Their support and obvious disconnect, from their own communities, and family values, and simple common sense, is now public.
Rudy Gonzales
Perry has no real power to reassert. He has lost his luster, and in fact his panache has failed grossly here in Texas. He discredited Texas and Texans with his poor performance and now Texas and the nation knows his true inability to lead. He is damaged goods! The TEA-GOP-Republican establishment in Texas is trying to spin Perry national demise as a blip in his career. Not! Perry should resign or be removed by recall. Perry's conservative compassion has never trickled down, and his attitude, along with the one-track Legislature of this one party state have damaged Texas nationally.