Credit: Bob Daemmrich

On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry gave brief statements before and after he entered Austin’s Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, where he was booked on two felony charges related to his threat to veto funding for the state’s public integrity unit.

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