Governor Rick Perry Announces He Will Run For President
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Governor Rick Perry (rickperry.org)
Texas Governor Rick Perry told South Carolina voters the news in a conference call about an hour before he kicked off the campaign with a speech in Charleston. “I full well believe I’m going to win,” Perry declared in his call.
Perry joins a wide-range of Republican candidates who will fight to win the Republican nomination. Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Representative Ron Paul, Representative Michele Bachmann, former Senator of Pennsylvania Rick Santorum, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and businessman Herman Cain have all formerly announced their candidacy. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is also in the race and leads in many polls.
A presidential campaign website has been created for Perry that declares "It's time to get America working again.”
On his “Why I’m Running” blog post found on the site, Perry claims, “As governor of Texas I have led based on a few guiding principles. One, don’t spend all the money. Two, keep taxes low and under control. Three, keep regulations fair and predictable. And four, reform the legal system so frivolous lawsuits don’t paralyze employers that are trying to create jobs.”
According to the Associated Press, Perry “has overseen significant job growth in his state while working to keep taxes low. He was an early backer of the tea party movement. He enjoys the support of social conservatives because of his opposition to abortion and gay rights. He is also an evangelical Christian who organized a well-attended prayer rally in Houston last week.”
Governor Perry did not attend Thursday’s GOP debate on FOX News because he hadn’t formerly announced his candidacy for President.
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In August 2001, Governor Rick Perry stopped by Edinburg, Texas, to deliver a speech before a gathering of Mexican and United States officials. He stated, "We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, 'we don't care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there.'" he said. "And that vision must include the children of undocumented (illegal) workers. That's why Texas took the national lead in allowing illegal residents to atttend a Texas college at a resident rate.
NumbersUSA, which advocates for low levels of immigration, recently gave Perry a D- grade for his various policy stances. While the grade actually puts him in the middle of the pack among presidential contenders (only Michele Bachmann is in "B" territory), Perry's close association with the border guarantee that he'll receive plenty more attention. According to the group's president, Roy Beck, the biggest knock on Perry is his opposition to mandating the use of E-Verify, a federal electronic system for checking prospective workers' immigration status.
Perry's potential problems with the right are the more immediate concern, for he opposes portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas," he said in a statement. The E-Verify portion of Arizona's law has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, yet Gov. Perry refuses to support it, because he wants big business to have an unlimited supply of cheap labor, not always legal, but cheap.
E-verify is working in Arizona and other states. All federal contractors must use it. It would help employ thousands of legal immigrants and citizens, by dening jobs to illegal residents, but Perry refuses to support it. He's a huge fraud.
Remember the NAFTA Superhighway project? It was to consist of a two-mile wide $184 billion transit system of toll roads, rail lines and utilities from the Texas-Mexico border all the way up to the Minnesota-Canadian border, to make it easier to ship foreign goods from China and other countries into North America. It became so unpopular in Texas that the Texas portion of it, called the Trans-Texas Corridor, was renamed and mostly disbanded a couple of years ago. Perry was the only gubernatorial candidate in 2006 of four major candidates who supported it.
Rick Perry, is extremely overrated, and he cannot win. He has too many vulnerabilities, e.g. Merck, and has partaken in shady deals with Corporations. A vote for Perry would be like voting for Obama.
US Presidential Nominee??!!! The man who wanted to secede from the United States???!!! If you don't
have confidence in this Country don't try to lead it!!!!!
Prayer works because one denounces trust in God doesn't diminish the power of God. This nation singing songs of praise to the godless, its sinking in its immorality, with a lavish partying corrupt captain. Its time Americans seek true Jesus name otherwise they will be left with chump change.
I don't think this is a good year to be a social conservative when libertarians are coming to the GOP and the issues are economic. Prayer doesn't help. Still, I think he'll really hurt Mitt Romney most of all.
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