Perry Confronted Over Fracking and Gay Rights
DECORAH, Iowa — After a smooth day of church visits and campaign stops, Gov. Rick Perry hit some unexpected bumps as audience members challenged him on hydraulic fracturing and allowing gays to serve openly in the military.
In what was supposed to be the final question of the final stop of the fifth day of his bus tour, Carrie Kauffman began to ask a question about the practice known as "fracking," which involves shooting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals underground to aid in the retrieval of oil or gas.
Kauffman, a 22-year-old student at Luther College, a small, religiously ...
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David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Pesky facts.
nancy sabet
TX Tribune you should be ashame of yourself going so negative on our governor. He is an honorable man, Nobody can question Rick Perry’s sincerity when he speaks. One may not agree with him on a given topic- and I do disagree with him on some things- but when he states his position, there’s no doubt he’s calling it as he sees it. Considering the weasely-ness of Gingrich and Romney, this should be Perry’s greatest selling point.
Rodger Frego via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That dude called a " draft report" empiracle hard evidence? What a moron. Looks like Perry was right on this one.
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Empirical evidence; boyz don't read much do they???
Betty Seymour via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Please come to Dimock, PA Rick Perry and drink lots of water. I know 11 families who will freely give you drinking water from their wells that have 'not' been polluted by fracking.
Ronnie Mark Pilgreen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why won't this guy just go away!
Aldo Merino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
There's certainly evidence of it and the EPA report is quite exhaustive to that end, but it's also dependent on the geological makeup of the location in question and also the chemicals used.
Of course, that Perry simply dismisses the report out of hand only showcases his continued subpar education record continues well into adulthood.
Dawnna Dukes via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Guess he was not around during the session when "fracking" was a major debated issue especially amongst rural Republicans on the House floor. Hmmmmm......
Andy Jones via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He was not around in almost any of the session was he?
Mary Warren via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He must read the same stuff Sarah Palin does.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry's wrong.
If it came out to be true and final, that fracking is polluting (duh, you've got to be a dumb@$$ to think that injecting high-pressure sand, ceramics, water, and chemicals slurry into shale layers to cause fracturing won't cause any pollution?), as long as Big Bidzness don't want no story, there will be no story.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
and, beeteedubs, Rodger:
draft reports aren't typed until they do have "empiracle" [sic] hard evidence. It may be a draft because the format or discussion are still a work in progress, but the data usually isn't in question by the time a report is typed up, even in draft form.
This ain't your freshman "let's just start typing and see where my train of thought takes me or if I hit 20 pages, whichever first" paper you used to type (or maybe still do).
Karen Cardwell Diller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A guy who made a D in Organic Chem 1 and an F in Organic Chem 2 really needs to keep his mouth shut on scientific issues. http://tekwala.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/rick-perry-transcript-full.jpg
Shea McClure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just shows, again, what a load of crap he is trying to sell. Fracking is horrible for the environment. Texas needs to dump him as Governor (as we should have done years ago), because he has been exposed as a fraud. Nor should the US citizens even consider him a presidential candidate. Perry is a dog and pony show. Career politician.
Shea McClure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
In the next Texas gubernatorial elections, Beavis or Butthead could win against Perry.
Shea McClure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Calling all degenerate candidates.
Ron Blancarte
Nancy, the Tribune is reporting the facts. This isn't "going negative", these are issues that Perry is facing while running for President. The reason that Perry is facing any negative issues is his own making. He is pushing an agenda that is quite negative. Just look at the response to his "Strong" ad, OVERWHELMINGLY negative.
As far as his stances - you are right, it is sincere. But sincere isn't what we elected candidates on, we elect them on their platforms. And this is where Perry is lacking.
ChicoMendez
What he meant as that God hadn't told him yet that fracking caused groundwater contamination...or air pollution...or earthquakes.
Rodger Frego via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry is spot on.
sssdddd
Nancy Sabet,
Kneel down and pray to the self annointed prophet Rick Perry...
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Do you know how this message makes Texans look?
Let me give you a hint, there was once this family called the Clampetts who found oil.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry is an idiot. Didn't he see the report three days ago about Wyoming groundwater contaminated by fracking chemicals?
sssdddd
Nancy Sabet,
Obviously you are a Perry fanatic if not paid campaigner. Either paid by crony capitalism or directly.
So, Nancy, here is the deal. I am the negative Perry man. This rag has seen their furtunes rise with Perry's campaign, so they run more inches on Perry than anywhere, bar none.
It is I however that will be put to the test if Perry shows in Iowa. I will have to make good on preparations to ramp up the negative Perry Campaign. Tactics will not be disclosed but real they will be. Why? Why would a normaly non-player in the presidential campaign be so riled up. Well it is Perry's platform, it is a platform that many have died in the past to stop and I wish to honor their sacrifice.
Perry's platform is a call for a 'new confederacy'. He has the following actions under his belt to draw my ire.
1. Flirting with seccession.
2. Call in his book to repeal the commerce clause.
3. Flirting with assault in Ben Bernanke.
4. Call for elimination of Federal Government taxation authority.
5. Politicization of the Supreme court.
These are serious issues for serious minds. Yes it is difficult to get people fired up on this so I have been refining attacks based on more basel emotions.
1. The perposterous attitude he has towards religion by calling himself a prophet.
2. Gay tendancies that have dogged him, or at least his Dick waiving adds of the past.
3. Failure to produce rain when praying.
4. Crony capitalism.
5. Sleaze.
The bottom five are charges that can appeal to a broader audience, but nothing deserves my attention more than an agenda than the preservation of the United States of America. That such a self serving bastard such as Rick (or is that Dick) Perry would rise up should be a cause for concern among all Americans as to the state of our national Phsyche. Yes there is the real concern that we are not as a nation sober or even sane. My resistance is akin to fighting fire with fire, which as Mr. Dick knows is more effective than praying any day.
Sharon Cooper Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/08/143386908/epa-connects-fracking-with-water-contamination
EyesOfTX
Actually, Governor Perry is completely correct on the fracking issue. Anyone who actually reads the EPA report rather than relying on superficial media reporting on it will understand that the EPA clearly admits its "findings" are more conjecture than anything based on actual science. This is sadly typical of an agency that has been completely corrupted and radicalized by this current administration - the release of a "preliminary" report that has no basis in science, purely to attempt to damage one of the few industries in this country that is managing to created tens of thousands of jobs.
No other administration in U.S history - including the Clinton administration - would have authorized the release of such a poorly-constructed report. But in the age of Obama, every agency of the federal government has been completely politicized. Too bad.
gypsy314 ne
I do not know if Perry will succeed with his primary run for President. I can say there is no evidence to the fracking being a problem to the water table. As to the gay issue I agree with Perry. Homosexuals need mental help and they should get it but not at the expense of our military or our children being confused by there sickness of mindless confusion on the homosexuals feelings.
Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama and illegal aliens ,homosexuals and terrorist.
Sol Hombre
Remember a vote for a republican is a vote for ignorance, hate, fear mongering, and small mindedness.
sssdddd
It seems now the entire oil industry is paying a price for their association with Perry.
Sol Hombre
Hey sssdddd, you know you pointed out that rain thing. I find it kind of funny when FINALLY Ricky is out of the state "campaigning" for president only THEN do we get a solid rain, at least in this neck of the woods.
David Starkey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is he telling me that I DIDN'T see a man get FIRE FROM HIS KITCHEN FAUCET? BECAUSE I SURE AS HELL DID.
Is he telling me that companies don't do what ERIN BROCKOVICH PROVED THEY DO?
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
David--You saw a man light hydrogen sulfide gas. Not the same thing. (yes I saw the movie)
It isn't the fracking itself that pollutes; it is the bad cement jobs that companies like--wait for it---Haliburton do on the hole. Bad job means water table is polluted.
So, they say there is nothing wrong with fracking and stop there. It is the whole process that causes the problem, not just fracking itself.
Then they dispose of the fracking concoction in illegal ways that pollute. Of course it is bad--but people need to talk about facts and not go off half cocked. So Perry, douche that he is was partially telling the truth.
sssdddd
This is a man who will bring us all down to a level upon which he can walk.
Makes all texans look Luke fools.
Mary Steele
Our military is suppose to be professional, so they should not have a problem with gays openingly serving. They do their job and don't impose their sexual preferences on anybody, just like heterosexuals are suppose to act!
gypsy314 ne
Anybody but Obama!
Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama and illegal aliens , homosexuals and terrorist.