Liveblog: Rick Perry at The Texas Tribune Festival
We're liveblogging from The Texas Tribune Festival, a weekend of debate, discussion and dialogue featuring some of the biggest names in the world of Texas politics and public policy.
Gov. Rick Perry kicked off the festival at tonight's opening session, an interview with Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith. The state's longest-serving governor was asked about everything from higher education, immigration and health care in the upcoming legislative session to his ambitions in 2014, 2016 and beyond.
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Comments (9)
Joe Cutbirth via Texas Tribune on Facebook
SATAN??!? How does anyone take him seriously?
Kathy Kennemer Genet via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Please make him give full, complete answers to your questions.
Marcus Denton
The question is whether Evan will press him on anything or just solicit his opinion. Only the former is real journalism.
Shelly Brisbin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I guess he passed up the protests at the Capitol for the festival? Lot of that going around, I suspect.
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Kinda feel like puking just reading the updates on the Texas Tribune twitter page.
Samdavis
Did he explain how he reconciles his actions with his conscience (assuming he has one)?
mario pena
Thanks to Perry , amercian texan are suffering for the last 10 years, do to illegal immigrants, are building texas, not Amercians.
Samdavis
Actually illegals are doing the jobs we won't do. They're paying taxes like Social Security that they will never benefit from. This whole idea of going after illegal immigrants is political theater for the simple minded.
mario pena
Industry Leaders Want Lege to Fight "Payroll Fraud" this is going all around texas,