10. Rick Perry vetoed a bill that would have made it illegal to text while driving. I don’t know about you, but where I come from very few folks are able to steer a car with their feet while they text with their hands. And they do not have an extra set of eyes to watch the road while they are gazing down at their phone reading messages. Rick Perry vetoed the bill that would have made DWT----Driving While Texting---illegal in Texas, because (he always has a reason) the government should not be in the business of protecting the public safety through laws, it should educate folks instead. I hear that next on his list of things to do is get rid of DUI laws, because hey, people are so much more likely to not drink and drive if you ask them pretty please.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7615732.html9. Rick Perry tried to make every girl in Texas get HPV vaccine. This is the same governor who is such a libertarian that he interrupts the second amendment as meaning that drivers have a Constitutionally protected right to text while driving. And yet, he did not think that parents should be allowed to decide if their underage daughters were going to get a new vaccine against an STD that had been on the market for only a short time, meaning that all the potential side effects had yet to be determined. He thought the state had the right to decide, presumably because it is the state’s job to legislate matters of public health and safety. I sometimes wonder how many Rick Perrys they have in Austin. Maybe there are three or four, and they rotate them based upon who is having the best hair day.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16948093/ns/health-kids_and_parenting8. Rick Perry wants to abolish Medicaid Medicaid is the safety net for our next generation. Pregnant women and children without private insurance rely upon Medicaid so that they can get the care which is needed if the workers of tomorrow are going to be healthy enough to take care of us (their elderly, retired parents). Perry is not really worried about the future. He wants to abolish Medicaid---which also pays for the medical care of a lot of disabled people. Guess Rick Perry would rather see abortion rates sky rocket as young women who find themselves faced with the prospect of delivering at home without a doctor decide that a termination would be best after all. Rick Perry will tell you he is for limiting the size of the government---and yet, he was willing to have the state of Texas pay millions to the makers of the HPV vaccine, who were his political supporter. Perry is not for smaller government. He is for a more streamlined government that funnels money straight into the coffers of his campaign donors.
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/11/09/199040/rick-perrys-medicaid-fantasies/7. Rick Perry vetoed a law to prevent private investors from using eminent domain to steal your property. And no wonder. Bush Lite used this law to steal land so that he could build a Ballpark which he then turned around and sold to the city of Arlington for millions. Perry believes that you have a right to Drive While Texting, but you do not have a right to your own property. As president, Perry will do everything in his power to make sure that someone wealthier and more powerful than you gets to tell you what you will do with your family home.
6. Rick Perry is governor of Texas. As we all know by now, the role of Texas governor is largely a figurehead position. All the real work gets done by the Lt. Governor. That’s why Bush Jr. was so good at the job. Just veto the bills your corporate masters tell you to veto (see Shrub’s veto of the massively popular Patient Protection Act) and everyone will love you. If you want someone with executive experience, select a governor from a state where the governor actually does something. If you want a president who likes to dress up in strange costumes for photo ops, look to Texas for a leader.
5. Rick Perry is guilty of the same crimes for which former governor Don Seigelman was sent to federal prison. Do we really need another Whitewater investigation? Do we want another Whitewater investigation that actually has merit? If Perry becomes president, some skeletons that have (so far) remained buried in some Texas desert are going to be unearthed. Like the way he appoints political donors to The University of Texas Board---which, in Texas is another way of saying “Pass Go as many times and you want and collect as money dollars as you think you need.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6406108.html4. Rick Perry tried to cover up the fact that Texas executed a man who was almost certainly innocent by abusing his authority. Perry is more than willing to abuse his power in order to cover up his own mistakes and that of his political allies. When a commission tried to investigate the possibility that an innocent man had been executed, Perry stepped in and fired three commission members, making it impossible for them to do their job. I remember another politician, an ex-president who tried tied to quash a politically dangerous investigation by firing a public official. That president’s name was Richard Nixon. Do we really want a president cut from the same cloth as Tricky Dick.
The Miami Herald has (conveniently) removed the link to this story, so here is the link to my journal in which I cite their story.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/4383. Rick Perry believes that states should be allowed to secede from the union. No link necessary for this one. What will
President Perry do when the states of California and New York suddenly realize that they pay more in taxes to DC than they get back in federal spending ? What will happen when they get fed up with federal agents raiding their medical marijuana clinics? What happens when Alaska realizes that it can become the next Saudi Arabia---if it can just sever its pesky ties to the lower forty-eight? These states might decide to form their own countries and leave the South and Midwest holding the nation’s enormous national debt. And Rick Perry is on record as supporting them. That makes Rick Perry a better candidate for the job of Jefferson Davis (former president of the Confederacy) than the job of Abraham Lincoln.
2.Rick Perry will veto any bill, no matter how necessary or popular if one of his cooperate backers tells him to do so. For all his faults. W. cared about his “legacy.” He was a member of the Bush family first and a paid political lackey second. He hesitated to do the kind of absolutely unpopular, inexcusable things that his successor, Perry does every legislative session without batting an eye or ruffling his perfectly coifed hair.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2001-08-01/btl1. Rick Perry protects pedophiles If the Republican Party and its “family values” constituency nominate Perry, then they will prove themselves to be hypocrites. In a way, I almost want to see them nominate Perry, just so I can say “Protecting pedophiles is now a Christian value?” The story is simple. Perry was heading into a difficult re-election. Some of his appointees to the Texas Youth Commission turned out to be pedophiles who raped their underage charges. Perry covered it up. The Bush DOJ obliged Perry by also attempting to cover it up. Someone should make a movie about it---except they would have to call it fiction instead of a documentary, because no one would believe it.
http://www.lonestarproject.net/archive/2007-03-09%20-%20TYC_Perry-Kimbrough.pdf
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