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LetMyPeopleVote

(144,005 posts)
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 01:54 AM Jan 2022

The "Rick Perry" on Texas GOP ballot is not the former governor of Texas

This story really amuses me




The incumbent, Greg Abbott, is seeking a third four-year term against six opponents in the Republican primary, including one who will appear on the ballot as Rick Perry.

This is not the Rick Perry who served in state government from 1985-2015 as a state representative, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and governor, and then as the energy secretary on Donald Trump’s cabinet.

This is another one: Ricky Lynn Perry, a computer engineer from Springtown, a town northwest of Fort Worth, in Parker County......

But name games are pretty common, even without the busy hands of political tricksters. Lots of candidates run under names that don’t match their official records. James Richard Perry is the full name of the former governor with whom Ricky Lynn is likely to be confused. Texas Democrats have a candidate for governor known to his friends, family and most of the voters as Beto, though his full name is Robert Francis O’Rourke. The state has a U.S. senator whose name is Rafael Eduardo Cruz, who is better known as Ted.

Texas politics can be amusing
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The "Rick Perry" on Texas GOP ballot is not the former governor of Texas (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 OP
I get a kick out of Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente LeftInTX Jan 2022 #1
I remember that stunt LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #2

LeftInTX

(24,560 posts)
1. I get a kick out of Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 11:29 AM
Jan 2022

During the 2020 election, he and his son with the same name, were in the both the Democratic and Republican primaries for President.
In Texas we had Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente (Democratic) and Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra (Republican) on the ballot.

During the 2018 elections, De La Fuente was on the ballot in nine states' primaries for United States Senate, all of which he lost.
(How does someone get residence in a state in which he does not reside? Is he registered to vote in nine states?..What is the deal? Or does the state in which he qualified for the ballot not have residency requirements?)

He also switches parties and also created his own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_De_La_Fuente

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2019-12-18/column-roque-de-la-fuente-striving-to-create-political-dynasty

Gotta wonder what motivates these people? Is it worth the time and effort?

LetMyPeopleVote

(144,005 posts)
2. I remember that stunt
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:00 PM
Jan 2022

I remember that we had a ballot draw for my county and that idiot had someone draw for his place on the primary ballot. It was strange

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