Thread: Rick Perry is in the Race for President

Rick Perry is in the Race for President
According to Perry's Spokesperson, the Governor is Running for Office

IB Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | August 11, 2011 7:27 PM EDT

Texas Governor Rick Perry will be running for president. The conservative politician will be making an announcement on Saturday officially announcing his decision, but his spokesman told the press that Perry is definitely running in the Republican primaries.

Perry will face off against a significant Republican pool which includes Mitt Romney -- the current frontrunner -- Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann.

For weeks, Perry has been calling party activists and Republican officials in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, trying to build support for his candidacy, The New York Times reported. He has also been working to build a fundraising operation.

Henry Barbour, a member of the Republican National Committee from Mississippi, has been among the party leaders visiting Austin in recent works to urge Perry to run.

"Governor Perry is authentic, a truth-teller and a job-creating machine in Texas," said Barbour, whose uncle is Mississippi's Republican governor, Haley Barbour. "And it sure helps to come from a big donor state like Texas, if you are going to run for president. He will be able to raise the money to compete with Romney."

Perry is speaking at the annual RedState conference in Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday afternoon, where he is expected to reveal his intentions to run.

"I think Perry will shoot to the top of the polls right away, and be neck and neck with Romney," Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Texas, told Reuters.

"A fifth generation Texan, Governor Rick Perry has taken an extraordinary Texas journey, from a tenant farm in the rolling West Texas plains to the governor's office of our nation's second largest state," it says on the Texas governor's website. He considers himself a Washington outsider, and his conservative and religious ideals may steal votes from Michele Bachmann's Teaparty base.

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Unemployment rate, Texas
www.google.com/publicdata
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
8.2% of the labor force - Seasonally Adjusted - Jun State Diverting Money for A/C Help
www.myfoxhouston.com/.../texas/110808-s ... money-fo... - Cached3 days ago – Despite the unmerciful heat, the state of Texas is holding onto millions of dollars intended to help the most vulnerable pay their electric bills. ... We're just going to take money from the elderly and low income and be ... is the best way to keep utility costs down for ratepayers across the state. ...Rick Perry: Why His Texas Record Is A 2012 Campaign Liability ...
www.tnr.com/node/90370 - CachedJun 21, 2011 – The Texas budget for the next two years is a mess of accounting tricks and gutted programs, thanks to an unprecedented budget shortfall. ... Good reasons Perry shouldnt be president.

Rick Perry Immigration Record Blasted By Tom Tancredo, Tea Party

AP/The Huffington Post Posted: 8/11/11 04:49 PM ET
Rick Perry Immigration Record Blasted By Tom Tancredo, Tea Party
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stumble McALLEN, Texas (AP/The Huffington Post) -- For all of his rock-solid conservative credentials, Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have an Achilles' heel: immigration.

If Perry runs for president -- he is expected to announce his candidacy on Saturday -- he will undoubtedly focus on Texas' relatively healthy economy and its low taxes and his record in creating jobs in the 11 years he's been governor. What he may have to explain on the stump is how undocumented immigrants have contributed to that success, adding as much as $17.7 billion a year to the state gross product and enjoying such benefits as in-state tuition at public universities.

Former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), an outspoken critic of undocumented immigration, blasted Perry as weak on undocumented immigration in an op-ed in Politico on Thursday.

When I ran for president in 2008, I tried to pressure the Republican candidates to take a hard line against illegal immigration. For this, Perry called me a racist.
When he first took office as governor in 2001, Perry went to Mexico and bragged about his law that granted “the children of undocumented workersâ€