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2012 Presidential Campaign, Campaign Appearances, Issues, News, Rick PerryRick Perry Hoping for Turnaround Tonight in IowaThe Iowa caucuses are finally here. Tonight Republicans in the Hawkeye state will select their favorite candidate to face off against President Barack Obama in November.
The Perry campaign pulled out all the stops Monday. The final two events had musical openings by country music star Larry Gatlin. And all of the campaign stops highlighted Perry’s biggest political endorsements. From the dozens of Texas lawmakers who made the trip to Iowa, to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.... |
2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Truths About Immigrant Tuition
The GOP primary campaign continues, and so do attacks and counterattacks on Gov. Rick Perry’s record.
KUT News’ Emily Donahue and Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman check on the debate over Texas’ in-state tuition for some undocumented immigrants.
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Campaign Appearances, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Gov. Perry Gives Deeper Answer on Immi...
Texas Governor Rick Perry spent the weekend appealing to GOP voters in New Hampshire. He took questions at almost all of his stops. Many were about the Texas Dream Act, the program that lets some foreign born children of illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges.
Even before Rick...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News, Rick Perry
On Immigration, Perry Balances Competi...
The presidential campaign trail has been a little rough the last week of so for Governor Rick Perry.
He’s been taking it on the chin over his comment in a debate that people opposed to in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants don’t “have a heart”.
He now calls that...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Dewhurst, Perry Disagree on Tuition
Governor Rick Perry has been criticized by some Republican faithful for his support of a bill granting in-state tuition to children of illegal immigrants. Yesterday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a GOP hopeful for the U.S. Senate, told a Dallas talk show that he wouldn't have signed that...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Campaign Appearances, Debates, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Perry Brings Jobs Message to Michigan
Governor Rick Perry visited Mitt Romney’s childhood home of Michigan today. He spoke to a packed room of Republican activists on Mackinac Island. The governor received a warm reception, but he likely won't win the Michigan primary. But the problem isn’t his message.
The pro-jobs, small...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Debates, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Rick Perry Fights Back, Misses the Mar...
Texas Governor Rick Perry came out on the offensive in last night's GOP debate in Orlando, an attempted to rebound from a shaky debate performance last week. He remained the top target of his fellow presidential hopefuls, but Perry seemed more prepared for the criticism.
The governor delivered...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Perry Ad “Zeroes” In on Obama
Looking past the Republican primary to the general election, Rick Perry's campaign today released an ad contrasting its characterization of Barack Obama's first years in office — "zero" accomplishments on jobs, change, etc. — with the Texas...
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Issues, News
Occupy Wall Street Comes to Austin
Johnathan Cronin was one those people.
Cronin was involved in the anti-war movement in the lead up to the Iraq invasion. He said the energy to Occupy Austin is different.
"If I could compare these movements, I would say that this movement has a lot more confidence, a lot more steel, a lot...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Campaign Appearances, Debates, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Perry Begins Attempt to Climb Back to ...
Texas Governor Rick Perry is campaigning across New Hampshire this weekend. It’s his first real voter meet and greets since his campaign announced a new offensive against GOP rival Mitt Romney - and President Barack Obama.
But even before the town hall in Derry began – his critics were...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Fact and Fiction in the Republican Pri...
It’s punch and counterpunch time on the GOP campaign trail, and Gov. Rick Perry is a popular target. Some attacks are fanciful and some are (mostly) factual.
KUT’s Emily Donahue speaks to Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman about the veracity of claims made by...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Campaign Appearances, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Gov. Perry Takes His Economic Message ...
Texas Governor Rick Perry campaigned in Michigan over the weekend, where he'd finished a distant 2nd to Mitt Romney in a GOP straw poll there. As KUT’s Ben Philpott reports, if Perry hopes to gain ground in Michigan, he'll first have to find some common ground to work with.
On the road Rick...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Perry’s Immigration Tightrope-Wa...
Governor Rick Perry’s record on illegal immigration was a target again at last night’s GOP presidential debate.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney pounced on the program Perry signed into law allowing in-state college tuition for some undocumented college students.
“I don’t see...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News
Study Shows New Texas Jobs Going to Im...
About 80 percent of all jobs created in Texas since 2007 have been filled by legal and illegal immigrants. That's according to the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that wants to limit immigration.
The group's new study cites census data that claims that, of the 279,000 jobs created...
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2012 Presidential Campaign, Issues, News, Rick Perry
Perry Stance On Social Security Resona...
By Ben Philpott, KUT News and Texas Tribune
Governor Rick Perry told young voters he's “on their side” when it comes to Social Security during the Tea Party/GOP debate in Florida last week.
"It has been called a Ponzi scheme by many people long before me," said Perry. "But no one's had the...
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