Just days before announcing his candidacy for president, Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter to the Obama administration saying Washington owes Texas more than $349 million for the state’s incarceration of illegal immigrants.
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The Skinny: James Leininger
This weekend, the San Antonio physician and prolific donor to conservative candidates and causes hosts a Hill Country gathering for Gov. Rick Perry and some of his evangelical supporters. Who is Leininger? Here’s a primer.
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Perry Supported Tax Hikes Before He Opposed Them
To hear him tell it on the presidential campaign trail, Gov. Rick Perry has never met a tax increase he liked. But over a political career that reaches back to the 1980s, he has embraced billions of dollars worth of them.
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Rick Perry is Not George W. Bush
Watching Rick Perry can cause flashbacks. Both he and George W. Bush were governors of Texas, but Perry isn’t running the same government Bush was running in 2000. The problems are different. Their strengths are different. And the pitch is different, too.
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Look Who’s Talking
What a difference a year makes. Gov. Rick Perry wouldn’t debate Bill White in the governor’s race, but he’s agreed to a couple of debates already in his presidential quest.
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BFFs, with Numbers
It’s a synergy thing. Super PACs can spend all they want to advance a candidate or cause, with certain limitations and — importantly — without talking to the candidate or the campaign. So here’s Make Us Great Again, a new Perry-centric Super PAC releasing a poll of Iowa voters that shows — surprise — the governor doing well there.
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Inside Intelligence: The Other Texan
His supporters wouldn’t necessarily agree, judging from our phone calls and emails, but our insiders think U.S. Rep. Ron Paul — the other Texan in the presidential race — is getting all the attention he deserves. More than a third, however, don’t agree with that.
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Perry on Top in New Iowa Survey
Rick Perry leads the other Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, according to a new poll conducted for a Perry-favored Super PAC.
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Video: KBH on Perry and 2012
In an interview with the Fox Business Network last night, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison again stopped short of endorsing Gov. Rick Perry in his bid for the White House, but she pledged to support whichever of the Republican candidates wins the nomination.
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Why the Hell Not? Kinky Endorses Perry for Prez
Kinky Friedman, the musician and mystery writer who twice ran for governor, is backing the guy he wanted to defeat in his bid to be president of the United States.
