Gov. Rick Perry is scoring some endorsements from GOP activists and officeholders, but support for Perry among his fellow Texas Republicans isn’t unanimous. The Democrats, as you might expect, are vociferously in opposition.
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Video: Perry’s 2012 Campaign Announcement Speech
Gov. Rick Perry formally tossed his hat into the ring Saturday, announcing in South Carolina he will pursue the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Watch the full speech here.
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Updated: Perry Opens Campaign With Harsh Attack on Obama
Gov. Rick Perry jumped into the 2012 presidential race with a double-barrel blast at President Obama on Saturday, blaming him for the fiscal mess in Washington and promising to make job creation his signature issue.
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Video: Follow Jay Root’s S.C. Video Postcards
The Tribune’s Jay Root is filing video updates from Charleston, S.C., where he’s covering the governor’s 2012 presidential campaign announcement.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Our all-hands-on-deck series on new laws — 31 Days, 31 Ways — continues, Root covers a challenge to the governor’s school finance fix and the tax that makes it work, Philpott forecasts a presidential media tsunami will hit Texas, Murphy with a look at midyear campaign reports from candidates and PACs in Texas, yours truly on the quiet spot at the top of the 2014 ballot, Hamilton on government-required vaccinations against meningitis, Grissom reports on the heat wave in un-air-conditioned Texas jails, Aguilar on the private security business along the state’s border with Mexico and M. Smith’s interview with Nicole Hurd on how to get more high school students into college: The best of our best content from Aug. 8 to 12, 2011.
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Perry’s Southern Strategy Begins in South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Republican candidates have generally looked to South Carolina as a “firewall” to make a final stand in fending off the attacks from challengers. For Rick Perry, it may be more like a launching pad.
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Higher Education
Next Texas A&M Chancellor: John Sharp?
John Sharp, a longtime Democratic officeholder who is a friend and former classmate of Gov. Rick Perry’s, could be the next chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, sources told the Tribune Friday afternoon.
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Criminal Justice
Court Rules Against Individual Health Care Mandate
A federal appeals court today ruled that the individual insurance mandate in President Obama’s health care reform plan is unconstitutional, a decision Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott lauded as a step toward ending “Obamacare.”
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Brace Yourself for the Flood of Perry Profiles
Now that Gov. Rick Perry is officially joining the presidential battle this weekend, the inevitable “who is he” and “can he win” stories will begin to flood the airwaves. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
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Criminal Justice
Supreme Court is Elected, but Bears Perry’s Stamp
Judges are elected in Texas, but Gov. Rick Perry has picked the winners on the state’s highest civil court almost without fail since he took office in 2000.
