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Texas Gov. Rick Perry ‘greatly disappointed’ by vote to admit openly gay Boy Scouts
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Thursday afternoon said he was sad to learn that the Boy Scouts of American voted to allow openly gay members. “The Boys Scouts of America has been built upon the values of faith and family for more than 100 years and today’s decision contradicts…
Gov. Rick Perry ‘disgusted’ by cartoon mocking lack of regulations in Texas
A cartoon depicting Texas Gov. Rick Perry touting his state’s economy whilst a fertilizer plant besides him explodes has unsurprisingly stirred up controversy. The cartoon by Jack Ohman, which appeared in The Sacramento Bee on Thursday, added fuel to the already fierce rivalry between California and Texas. Supporters of the…
Rick Perry to decide on 2016 presidential run ‘sometime later in the year’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Tuesday that he would announced his decision on another presidential bid “sometime later in the year.” Regarding his run for re-election as governor, he told The Shark Tank, “check me in June.” Months after dropping out of the Republican presidential primary race last year,…
Kinky Friedman: ‘I want my ashes spread on Rick Perry’s hair’
Jewish country singer and former gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman announced over the weekend that he had completed his last will and testament and it calls for his ashes to be sprinkled on the hair of Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R). According to The Dallas Morning News, Friedman on Saturday told…
Rick Perry tells tea party: Allow more guns in schools
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that schools in his state will be safer when school districts are given the ability to allow staff to carry guns. Speaking to a cheering crowd of Northeast Tarrant County Tea Party members on Monday, the Texas governor called last week’s shootings at an…
Perry’s radical anti-abortion agenda includes 20-week ban
Appearing in Houston on Tuesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) bragged about his anti-abortion record, including what he called his “privilege” of signing a law that requires women to undergo a medically unnecessary vaginal probe before ending an unwanted pregnancy. Perry spoke at a crisis pregnancy center, at an event…
Perry: Medicaid expansion is like ‘adding 1,000 people to the Titanic’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Monday said that his state would refuse to implement President Barack Obama’s health care reform law because it was “like adding 1,000 people to the Titanic.” In a statement released on Monday, Perry said that he would not set up state health care exchanges…
Obama-rebuking judge allows Texas to withhold funds from Planned Parenthood
Just hours after a federal court issued an injunction against Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s plan to revoke public funding for Planned Parenthood, a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans knocked that ruling down and permitted the state to proceed — at least for now. Judge…
Rick Perry ‘interested’ in 2016 presidential bid
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he’s already thinking about another attempt at the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. In a recent interview, Jack Fink, a reporter with the CBS affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, asked Perry if he was “interested” in another presidential bid. “Yeah, I am,” Perry replied. “I love…
Perry ‘absolutely’ considering another White House bid
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Monday he was “absolutely” considering running for president again in 2016. Perry announced he was running for President of the United States during a speech in South Carolina in August 2011, after many other candidates had already been campaigning for months. “I tell people…
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