WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conservatives concerned about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Democratic past may have one less reason to worry. From Perry’s past comes a crucial rebellion: a vote against a Democrat’s proposal to sanction Apartheid-era South Africa. In 1985, another member of Perry’s former party put forth an amendment in the Texas State Legislature that [...]
With the GOP primaries approaching, the Republicans have presented an array of politicians, with a revolving cast of front-runners. Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has remained at the top throughout, but, until recently, the identity of his main challenger was a volatile matter. At one point, as many have probably already forgotten, it was Donald [...]
Rick Perry may be a proud Aggie alumnus, but some students at the school are less than proud of the Republican presidential hopeful. The Texas Aggie Conservatives, a student group at A&M, have recently started a petition against Rick Perry’s DREAM Act. The Aggies want Perry to call a special session of the Texas legislature [...]
WASHINGTON — “He never talks about his faith,” Rick Perry spokesman Mark Miner said of the Texas governor earlier this year. Miner’s statement is not entirely true. Perry has spoken in some detail this year, before and after becoming a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, about how he became a Christian. But Perry’s tale [...]
WASHINGTON — Since announcing his run for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has had to fend off allegations of crony capitalism. Such critiques have revealed the governor’s easy relationships with lobbyists, and his awarding campaign donors government contracts and influential positions on state boards. But Perry has also personally profited from these same [...]
Filmmakers Steve Mims and Joe Bailey Jr.’s first feature collaboration resulted in the documentary”Incendiary: The Willingham Case”. Along with David Grann’s New Yorker piece, “Trial By Fire,” the film has become an essential part of the canon of journalism devoted to the trial and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham — the Corsicana, Texas, man who was convicted [...]
As the 2012 presidential campaign has started to take shape, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has made much of the Lone Star state’s job-creation numbers during his time in office. But repeated analyses have suggested that once you get past the talking points, Texas job growth under Perry hasn’t actually been very [...]
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry — who as Texas governor has overseen the execution of 235 convicted killers — said Friday that he “respects” the Supreme Court’s decision to halt the execution ofDuane Buck, a black man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her male acquaintance in Texas in 1995. While Buck’s lawyers aren’t questioning his [...]
WASHINGTON — Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has been good for the Austin lobbying business. Forty Perry aides have either left the governor’s administration to become registered state lobbyists or gone from the lobby into Perry’s inner circle, some of them making multiple trips through the revolving door, according to state lobbying [...]
WASHINGTON — Michele Bachmann may have given Rick Perry some cover from the HPV vaccine issue in the national media, but as the Texas governor arrives in Iowa on Thursday, conservatives in the first-in-the-nation caucus state still have doubts and questions about Perry, on that issue and others. Perry’s record on the HPV vaccine is “not [...]
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