January 2, 2012 12:44 pm by: KUT Staff
Gov. Rick Perry unfolding a Texas map on Dec. 31, 2011, to show Des Moines residents where his hometown of Paint Creek is located. Photo by Bob Daemmrich/Texas Tribune
If Gov. Rick Perry falls short in the Iowa caucuses, an increasingly likely outcome, there may be a feeling among frustrated supporters and objective observers alike: He could have had this. In these last unseasonably warm days before the Jan. 3 caucuses, the Texas governor has appeared to finally find his stride, resembling more the candidate who jetted to the front of the GOP field in August than the one who bumbled debate performances this fall. ...
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It’s the last day on the campaign bus for Texas Governor Rick Perry before tomorrow’s Iowa caucuses. He’ll make several stops today, ending up in Perry Iowa for a big final rally.
The whole Perry clan was on the tour over the weekend. The First Family of Texas made appearances at several stops, with Anita Perry introducing her husband.
“I’m concerned about our children. We need to get America back working again and I think he’s the man that can do that," the First Lady said before he husband spoke to a crowd in Boone Iowa.
Joining the Perry family this weekend in Des Moines were about 350 volunteers and supporters. The “Texas Strike Force” went to work immediately, make phone calls and hitting neighborhoods to organize caucus goers for Tuesday night. Perry told...
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By Wade Goodwyn, NPR
Texas Gov. Rick Perry likes to hold out the Lone Star State as a model — his vision for the country. But while Texas' growing economy has been a reliable jobs producer, the state's health care system is straining.
Only 48 percent of Texans have private health insurance,...
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By Ben Philpott, KUT News and Texas Tribune
Texas Governor Rick Perry returns to Austin tonight, after two days of campaigning in Iowa. While there, Perry focused his message on jobs and touted his record of job creation in Texas.
Job numbers out today for Texas show the state lost 1,300 jobs...
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The most dramatic moment of the GOP debate in Florida last Monday revolved around Gov. Rick Perry and his 2007 executive order mandating that all 11- and 12-year-old girls in Texas get the HPV vaccine. The human papillomavirus vaccine protects women and teens against a sexually transmitted disease...
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If nothing else, the controversy over Texas Gov. Rick Perry's mandating the use of the human papillomavirus vaccine in 12-year old girls, demonstrates the pronounced contradictions in his professed...
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A law requiring voters in Texas to show photo identification before casting a ballot is being challenged by several civil rights groups. The American Civil Liberties Union, the Advancement Project and others sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department this morning, saying the law will have a...
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In this week’s Politfact Texas, Gardner Selby of the
Austin American-Statesman talks to KUT's Emily Donahue about a claim made by former Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower.
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By Emily Ramshaw & Julian Aguilar, Texas Tribune.
The conservative pundit Ann Coulter has called Gov. Rick Perry “a little bit too much like George Bush” on immigration — and she doesn't mean it as a compliment. Tea Party loyalists have decried Perry’s opposition to a border fence and...
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By Ken Rudin, NPR
In this period of discontent, with polls showing the public's unhappiness with President Obama rising to a record level and their approval of Congress sinking towards single digits — and nearly everyone agreeing that Washington simply does not work — there is no shortage...
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By Frank James, NPR
If Texas Gov. Rick Perry is going to have problems with Republican voters over an issue, it apparently isn't going to be his controversial use of the phrase "Ponzi scheme" to describe Social Security.
A new USA Today/Gallup poll found that 43 percent of Republicans were...
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By Mark Memmott, NPR
Duane Buck, "a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago was at least temporarily spared from lethal injection" on Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to "his lawyers' claims that race played an improper role in his sentencing," The Associated...
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On Thursday, the state of Texas is scheduled to execute its eleventh death row inmate this year.
Duane Buck was convicted of killing Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler in 1995. Buck’s lawyers have asked for a new sentencing hearing, citing racially-biased testimony in his original...
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Emily Ramshaw, Texas Tribune
Texas Gov.
Rick Perry spent Wednesday morning preaching to the choir.
To uproarious cheers in...
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Hey Texplainer: Why doesn’t Rick Perry use money from the state's Rainy Day Fund to help fight the wildfires and assist folks who have lost their homes?
Earlier this year, Gov. Rick Perry lead the fight to prevent the state's Rainy Day Fund from being used to help fill the state's enormous...
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By John Burnett, NPR
Rick Perry heats up the atmosphere every time he talks about climate change. He's an avowed global warming doubter who once quipped, "The biggest source of carbon dioxide is Al Gore's mouth."
Perry set off the debate again in New Hampshire recently when he said, "I...
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