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Under Perry, Texas Economy has Created 48% of US Jobs Past 2 Years
By Jonathan Gurwitz One way of looking at Rick Perry’s political career is to conclude that he is extraordinarily lucky. He first ran for and won statewide office in 1990, [...]
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Gov. Perry and The Texas Dream Act
I’m sure Gov. Perry will get some heat from this piece in The Washington Times by Kerry Picket: In the midst of a number of conservatives believing Governor Rick Perry, [...]
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What Kind of Cowboy Is Rick Perry?
By Conor Friedersdorf Conservatives love their cowboys. The airport in Orange County, California is named for John Wayne. Once a Hollywood cowboy, Ronald Reagan was derided by his critics with [...]
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WSJ: Rick Perry to Run for President
AUSTIN, Texas, June 24 (UPI) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has decided to run for president and will join the GOP primary race before the Iowa Straw Poll, The Wall [...]
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Huntsman: Presidential Campaign ‘A Last-Minute Decision’
By Beth Reinhard ORLANDO—When President Obama nominated Jon Huntsman to be his ambassador to China in 2009, he lauded the then-Republican governor’s expertise in trade issues, his prior diplomatic...
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Presidential Wannabes Mum on Schools
By Jay Mathews Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney declared his candidacy for president (last week.) I went to his Web site to read his ideas about education. There weren’t any. [...]
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Run, Rick, run.
By DANIEL HALPER Our friend Doug MacKinnon, a former White House and Pentagon official and author, writes: Okay, so here are some unsolicited but heartfelt words of caution for Governor [...]
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The Rick Perry You Don’t Know
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a potentially potent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination because his political creed is uneclectic, matching that of the Republican nominating electorate,...
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Should Perry, Romney Team Up?
Austin-Boston connection helped JFK’s 1960 campaign for White House By JOE HOLLEY DEBATE SPONSOR ‘WAITING FOR PERRY’ The organizers of the next GOP presidential debate, scheduled for mid-July in Las [...]
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Gov. Perry: Create Environment Where Jobs Can be Created
By Hiram Reisner Texas Gov. Rick Perry says while government cannot create jobs, it can facilitate job creation. The potential presidential candidate also told Fox News’ Glenn Beck Monday individual [...]
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Texas ‘Bird-Hunting Rule’ May Help Governor Perry Launch White House Bid
By Darrell Preston and David Mildenberg Rick Perry built his career as the longest-serving U.S. governor using the “bird-hunting rule of Texas politics,” fellow Republican Bill Ratliff said. “You shoot...
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Rick Perry, Republicans’ Lone Star
By Stewart J Lawrence Rick Perry speaking at the Republican leadership conference in New Orleans earlier this month; he may announce his candidacy for the presidential nomination shortly. Photograph:...
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Who Really Owns the 2012 Hispanic Vote?
By Glenn Llopis The Immigrant’s Perspective As the 2012 Presidential campaign begins and questions loom about who the GOP front runner will be and Obama’s second term fate; there is [...]
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‘A Fight Within the Family’: VP Biden’s Speech to the NEA
By Stephen Sawchuk In a speech to the National Education Association‘s delegate assembly, Vice President Joe Biden sought to downplay areas of disagreement with the union, using the metaphor of [...]
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Bush-Perry Spat Overblown – Hostility is With Advisors
The relationship between George W. Bush and Rick Perry has been cool at best, and a hostility lingers between their top advisers. By Mark Z. Barabak Rick Perry was in [...]
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Attack on Texas Public Education; Part Two: Immigration
By DrJerryRBurkett Hispanics now make up 49 percent of the population of the State of Texas and account for 50 percent of the school age population. When compared to the [...]
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Latinos Join the Electoral Land Grab
Hispanics Fight for More Representation Based on Booming Population By Ashby Jones Emboldened by their booming population, Hispanics are pushing for a bigger swath of the legislative map that will [...]
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Is Rick Perry GOP’s Great Hope?
There is no news in noting that Republicans seem somewhat unenthusiastic about the collection of presidential hopefuls currently campaigning. And there has been a good deal of political talk about [...]
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Perry’s Education Push: A top Priority for Texas
By Kate Alexander More than a decade ago, Texas Gov. George W. Bush set his sights on becoming “the education president” and spreading the Lone Star State‘s public school reforms [...]
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States Continue Battle Over Education Budgets
Some states protect K-12 from funding reductions By Sean Cavanagh After months of arduous negotiation and partisan squabbling, states across the country have produced budgets for the new fiscal year [...]
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In Texas There’s Little Doubt to Rick Perry’s Intentions.
Rick Perry sure looks like a presidential candidate. The Texas governor and his top advisers are feeling out early-state Republican activists on the phone. He met for lunch in Austin [...]
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Perry’s Taking on Higher Ed Establishment Seen as a Credential
By Weston Hicks The Lone Star Report reported last week that a group previously neutral to the higher ed reform controversy, the Coaltion for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE), blasted [...]
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The True Mission of the Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education
We are increasingly skeptical of the Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education‘s mission. As we posted yesterday, the mission seems to attack anyone who is interested in lowering tuition costs, [...]
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Rick Perry mixes Texas-sized Helpings of Jobs, Social Values
By Kathie Obradovich If Texas Gov. Rick Perry decides to run for president, he should come to Iowa wearing a 10-gallon job-creation hat and the sort of respect for the [...]
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Perry Candidacy Looking More Likely
By Napp Nazworth “I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do,” Texas Governor Rick Perry told the Des Moines Register about the [...]
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Perry Remains Coy
By DAVE MONTGOMERY AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday highlighted themes that he would likely unleash in a campaign against President Barack Obama, but he offered no [...]
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GOP Absentees Quietly Stalk Iowa
By PATRICK O’CONNOR DES MOINES, Iowa—For all the talk about Michele Bachmann and other GOP White House hopefuls actively campaigning in Iowa, much of the speculation centers on two conspicuously [...]
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Rick Perry Candidacy Would Help Republican Outreach to Latinos
While Texas Governor Rick Perry has a reputation as a strong conservative, his more moderate views on immigration reform might help Republicans attract Latino voters if he were to be [...]
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Rick Perry inches closer to 2012 bid
This week, Rick Perry will be hosting a group of national donors. | AP Photo Close By JONATHAN MARTIN | 7/25/11 8:29 PM EDT Updated: 7/26/11 4:55 AM EDT He’s [...]
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Are Dems Worried About Losing Latinos?
By Jeff Winkler On Friday the Democratic National Committee launched its first presidential ad of the 2012 cycle, and it was in Spanish. In preparation for the 2012 presidential election, [...]
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Rick Perry is George W. Bush 2.0 – And That’s a Good Thing. By Solomon...
By Solomon Kleinsmith I don’t have as much of a feel for Texas Governor Rick Perry’s place along the political spectrum as I do for, say, Michelle Bachmann – but [...]
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How Perry Could Win
The Texas governor has executive experience, conservative cred, success generating jobs, and pizzazz. Jill Lawrence on why he could roll over a lackluster GOP field. By Jill Lawrence The [...]
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Perry’s Busy Schedule Signals his Political Plans, Aides Say. By Dave Montgomery
By Dave Montgomery AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry appears to be bounding toward a full-scale plunge into the 2012 presidential race with visits to two early battleground states this week, [...]
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Romney on the Offensive
Improving the quality of teachers is the best way to improve education, along with rewarding the “best and brightest” among them. By Robert Michaelson The Republican presidential candidate went after...
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Doom and Gloom Won’t fix America’s Problems
By Jeff Mullin, columnist Enid News and Eagle What is wrong with America? It’s a question many people are asking these days as the nation’s standing as the world’s dominant [...]
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Despite Bachmann’s Success, the Real GOP Race is Now Perry vs. Romney
By Beth Reinhard Texas Gov. Rick Perry announces that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in Charleston, South Carolina. Until now, the biggest question looming over the 2012 Republican...
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Republicans’ Big Problem in 2012 — Hispanics
By Andres Oppenheimer aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com Despite the avalanche of bad news for President Barack Obama, he remains the most likely winner of the 2012 elections. That’s the conclusion I reached...
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Higher education: Texas state universities to seek tuition hikes
By Zahira Torres \ Austin Bureau AUSTIN — Texas students planning on attending a state university next year should get ready to dig deeper into their pockets for that education. [...]
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Want Latinos’ votes? Ease college access – by Bill Maxwell
Bill Maxwell – The Tampa Tribune. A few days before Florida’s Republican primary, former Gov. Jeb Bush wrote a column suggesting ways the GOP could win the Hispanic vote in [...]
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What happened at the University of Virginia is probably going to happen again...
By Kevin Kiley It likely won’t take the same form – the removal and reinstatement of a university president. But somewhere, sometime, probably sooner rather than later, the governing board [...]
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GOP freshmen return, resume effort to roll back regulations
WASHINGTON – After the summer’s red-hot battles over the nation’s debt ceiling, Republican freshmen return to the nation’s capital Wednesday emboldened for one of the fights that could dominate the...
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Rick Perry: Energy – Put American’s to Work Now.
Rick Perry has the only plan to get us back to work. Let’s get America going. Now. Related articles Rick Perry says we shouldn’t be worrying about Herman… (shortformblog.tumblr.com) Rick Perry Hits...
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Northwest lawmakers fighting EPA boiler rules
By Rob Hotakainen / McClatchy -Tribune News Service WASHINGTON — Congress is feuding over how quickly the federal government should move in trying to reduce deadly air pollution that comes from...
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EPA Attacks The GOP
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet The Environmental Protection Agency has begun to feel our breath on their necks and they are lashing out. An article by Lisa P. Jackson entitled “Too Dirty too Fail —...
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Republican Defections Stall Attempt to Thwart Obama EPA Agenda
On Thursday the Senate failed to pass a resolution that would have invalidated a major new environmental regulation governing interstate emissions after a veto threat from the White House. Passage of...
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Boost Energy Production to Pay for Highways: GOP
By COREY BOLES WASHINGTON—House Republicans said Thursday they want to expand U.S. domestic energy production and use the increased federal royalties to pay for more bridge and highway repairs and...
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Former EPA policy chief faults White House for tepid response to GOP attacks
Lawrence Hurley, E&E reporter U.S. EPA‘s former policy chief is accusing the Obama administration of failing to mount a forceful defense of environmental regulations in the face of fierce partisan...
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Obama spurns jobs
Obama spurns jobs Now the president must appease his labor constituency. In rejecting construction of an important pipeline, US President Barack Obama has foreclosed employment for thousands of workers...
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Merritt joins Texas Republican Leadership in calling on President Obama to...
Tommy Merritt joined Republicans from all across the State of Texas in demanding that the President immediately allow plans for the construction of the Keystone Pipeline. “At a time when the energy...
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GOP Leaders Optimistic on Energy, Jobs After Meeting With Obama
By Siobhan Hughes House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Wednesday sounded an unusually optimistic note after meeting with President Barack Obama,...
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