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Nine Things We Won’t Miss About Rick Perry
With his announcement Monday that he will not seek an unprecedented fourth full term as Governor of Texas, Rick Perry (R) will retire from the office in January 2015. Sadly, he will leave behind a record of right-wing extremism that few could match.
Here are ten of the worst moments from his 13 years as governor and his “oops” 2012 presidential campaign:In his announcement, Perry noted, “Our responsibility remains to the next generation of Texans, who will inherit a state of our making. We alone are responsible for the kind of Texas that will greet them.”
1. He allowed Texas to become the nation’s worst polluter. Texas under Perry has led the nation in carbon dioxide emissions and is home to five of the ten worst mercury emitting power plants in the country. Rather than try to do something about this, Perry sued the federal government to try to avoid complying an EPA ruling that the state was in violation of the Clean Air Act. A proud climate change denier, Perry called the 2010 BP oil spill an “act of God” while speaking at a trade association funded by BP. And his solution to the nation’s economic ills in 2011: more oil drilling.
2. He executed a likely innocent man and impeded an investigation into the matter. In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville, Texas after being convicted of arson and the murder of his three children. Despite significant evidence that arson had not caused the fire (thus exonerating Willingham), Perry refused to grant a stay of execution. Five years after Willingham was executed, a report from a Texas Forensic Science Commission investigator found that the fire could not have been arson. As the commission prepared to hear testimony from the investigator in October 2009, Perry fired and replaced three of its members, forcing an indefinite delay in the process. With a record of executing juveniles and mentally disabled, Perry said in a 2011 GOP presidential debate that he had “never struggled” at all with his decisions to administer the death penalty to more than 230 people.
3. He actively sought to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Perry argued that Texas and other states should be able to opt out of federal en lements like Medicaid and Social Security — even though such a move would actually cost his own state’s economy billions of dollars. Despite their popularity and success, he called these programs and Medicare “Ponzi schemes,” and suggested they are actually uncons utional.
4. He consistently backed legislation to restrict women’s reproductive rights. Perry has made news in recent weeks for his embarrassing attacks on State Senator Wendy Davis (D) and his efforts to ram through a likely uncons utional bill to shut down the vast majority of Texas clinics that provide abortion. But his attacks on women’s reproductive choice are nothing new; in 2011 he pushed for and signed “emergency legislation” to require women to have unnecessary sonograms prior to abortions.
5. He demonized LGBT Texans and worked to increase legal discrimination against them. Perry was staunch defender of Texas’ uncons utional anti-sodomy law which criminalized the private consensual sexual behavior of adults. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, Perry called ban “appropriate,” and blasted the Court decision as the result of “nine oligarchs in robes.” As a presidential candidate, he ran a shockingly anti-gay ad, blasting open service by gay and lesbian members of the Armed Services as part of President Obama’s “war on religion.” He vocally opposed the Boy Scouts of America’s half-measure allowing openly gay Scouts but not leaders, claiming the tiny step “contradicts generations of tradition in the name of political correctness.” Even in his speech Monday, he proudly boasted that Texas had defended “the sanc y of marriage” by writing discrimination into the state’s cons ution.
6. He backed nullification of federal laws and even raised the prospect of secession. Perry rose to national prominence in 2009 when he threatened to have Texas secede from the United States. “If Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that,” Perry told reporters after a Tea Party event. He also signed nullification legislation — a state law that portends to undo federal law, despite the Cons ution’s clear guarantee of federal supremacy — as governor, the likes of which were used by secessionists in the 19th Century.
7. He refused to let the federal government provide healthcare for low-income Texans, despite the highest rate of uninsured residents in the country. Health care in Texas is abysmal. More than 25 percent of Texans — 6,234,900 people and growing — lack health coverage, the highest of any state in the country. However, when Obamacare was passed and offered millions of dollars in federal money to expand Medicaid and cover poor Texans, Perry rejected the offer even though it wouldn’t cost Texas a dime for at least three years. Despite his state’s awful track record on covering low-income residents, Perry claimed that Texas has the “best health care in the country.”
8. He vetoed bipartisan Equal Pay legislation to protect Texas women. Though women, on average, continue to earn 77 cents for every dollar men make, Perry vetoed legislation that would have helped women fight discrimination. The bill, HB 950, which passed the Republican-held Texas legislature, would have built on the federal Lilly Ledbetter Act. Perry, worrying that the bill would lead to regulations, vetoed the measure.
9. He called for repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments to the U.S. Cons ution, to end popular election of Senators and the federal income tax. In his book Fed Up!, Perry said that both the 16th and 17th Amendments were “mistaken” and should be repealed. The 16th Amendment allows the federal government to collect income taxes and accounts for 45 percent of all revenue, while the 17th Amendment allows voters, rather than state legislatures, to choose their U.S. senators. Perry opposed both amendments, saying they were merely passed in “a fit of populist rage.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...ss-rick-perry/
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I'd rather have Grandpa Paul's grandson in the office over Perry any day tbh.
It's too bad they had those GOP debates so he had a chance to show his ass early. It would have been much more entertaining with him as the GOP candidate.
Hmmmm....Greg Abbott vs. Julian Castro?
Castro would be a moron to run right now. He'd get slaughtered.
I was thinking Dewhurst v Davis.
I bet the next governor of Texas will be a Democrat.
Abbott? No ing way.
The battle of the jabberjaws!
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I don't think I could have timed moving to Texas any better.
Wanna bet? You know me. I'll bet on a trial of a saintly young black man whose life was cut short by a wannabe white guy. I say the puruvianglo wins. Trill says I'm an insensitive asshole. He was also to big of a pussy to put his money where his mouth was.
Greg Abbott wins the Republican nomination and wins the general.
a large source of bouton's material will disappear....
You know, in 2000 I thought Perry couldn't be worse than Bush. So with that in mind, don't start counting on Texas government to improve any time soon tbh.
This is so true.
red or blue guy, it's all the same
Things we will miss:
1) jobs
2) economic growth
3) being one of few states to actually run a budget surplus
things we won't miss:
1) blue state refugees coming here for jobs
Exactly... as bad as Perry is, the Republicans can do worse.
RICK PERRY: “TIME TO PASS MANTLE TO NEW GENERATION OF BONEHEADS”
SAN ANTONIO (The Borowitz Report)—Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced yesterday that he would not seek reëlection, telling supporters, “The time has come to pass the mantle of leadership to a new generation of boneheads.”
“I’ve had a good run,” he said. “But after twelve years, someone else who isn’t playing with a full deck should take a turn at the wheel.”
Reflecting on his twelve years as governor, Mr. Perry said that he had “no regrets” except for being incoherent the entire time.
Before leaving office, Gov. Perry said that he would propose three signature bills “just to let future Texans know how Rick Perry marked his territory.”
The first bill would require all voters in the state to have an I.D. with a photo of a white person; the second would force anyone filibustering an anti-abortion bill to ride a mechanical bull; and the third he could not remember.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...rowitz%20(148)
Like dubya before, RickyBobby is nothing useful idiot for the Texas 1%.
He's easily the front-runner right now. Dew will run for Lt Gov again. If Davis runs for statewide, it would probably be for AG
At this point anyone with an R on their shirt pocket will win the office of govenor. The brain dead will flip the vote switch without even knowing who is on the ballot.
The "No ing Way" is my only hope. Thanks for crushing my dream, you...you...dreamcrusher!!!11111
The decision not to run again is the best decision he's made in 13 years
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