Three Years After Tea Party Rallies, Perry Presses On
It was only three years ago when the political lines converged. On Tax Day at Austin City Hall, Gov. Rick Perry spoke to a crowd of noisy, rowdy Texans in the sort of assembly that quickly became common as the Tea Party wave swept Texas and the country.
That crested as Perry was crystallizing his own views on Texas and Washington and fiscal conservatism. It seeded the anti-Washington message of his 2010 race for re-election as governor, found fuller expression in his book, Fed Up! which was published days after that election, and served as the rationale behind his abortive ...
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Jim Vance
"I wanted to get it into the groundwater."
Deliberate pollution from a rather straightforward demagogue who certainly didn't impress many in his failed Presidential campaign effort.
T D
People are seeing first-hand the effects of budget austerity, and many don't like it.
This is a movement whose time has passed. Perry is doubling down on a losing hand.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
pride goes before a fall, Ricky
Maria Cristina Uribe-Short via Texas Tribune on Facebook
God help us.
Laura Watts Kinnison via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry's still smoking crack, I see! I liked the comment about making folks spend the money on what it was meant for! What a hypocrite!!! The master of re-appropriating federal funds!
Texas voters, I hope, are much smarter now than they were before he ran for President. I will seriously question the intelligence of anyone who thinks Perry is the best there is. We saw what a moron he was during the debates! Teachers who would support Perry after he gutted the budget and we saw 10,000 + teachers lose their jobs, ought to not be allowed to teach, if they still have a job!
He's a menace to the Great State of Texas!
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry's back to spewing his gobbledy gook? Guess he finally recovered from losing in the Republican priimary.
Ginni Watson Robinson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm confused. When you saddle your taxpayers with almost $4 million in security while you're out of state for 5 months and you collect a second paycheck for being retired when you're not, isn't that a cry for 'taxed enough already?'
Laura Watts Kinnison via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He also want to look at cutting the duplicity in services. This is the guy who rewarded his DPS friends with $3.48 MILLION worth of boats with 900 hp engines and 4 machine guns each (6 @ $580,000 each) to patrol the waters of Texas! Isn't that what Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Coast Guard already do? Perry has been ruining this state and will continue to do so until voted out! ANYONE has to be better than Perry!
Vibeke Mendonca Lee via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Elder statesman? Is that the loss of memory and general confused, idiotic appearance part?
Laura Watts Kinnison via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ronald Reaganish Elder Statesman.
Ann Pittman-Thompson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He is just plain SCARY!! Also, just never goes away and won't shut-up!
Arthur Townsend
99 State and Federal Lawmakers from Texas plus Governor Perry have already signed a formal pledge to NEVER raise revenue from taxes under any circumstances. Even wars and natural disasters are to be financed with spending cuts; never taxes. The Pledges are made ostensibly to taxpayers but are actually promoted by a lobbying organization that maintains them out of sight. 15 of the Federal Pledge signers are millionaires and 4 fall into the "1%." See if your Lawmakers have signed this Pledge at www.atr.org. Contact them at www.usa.gov to demand they renounce their Pledges and legislate with free will.
JC DemocratofTejas
I'm fed up with rick. Hey...is his head getting smaller? I know is brain is, but his gimme cap looks too big. Somebody throw some water on him..."Help- me, I'm shrinking..."