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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Texas Governor Rick Perry has not said if he will run for president, but there’s no end to speculation.
Conservative pundit George Will uncorked a look at Perry the other day in The Washington Post. His piece also appeared in the Austin-American Statesman, where Gardner Selby of PolitiFact...
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Lawyers for a Mexican citizen on death row in Texas are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his execution. They say carrying out his sentence next week would violate an international treaty.
Humberto Leal was convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in 1994. But he was not made...
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Gov. Rick Perry, in New York for a speech that’s fueling speculation about a possible run for the White House, said Tuesday that voters seem hungry for more candidates to pick from in the presidential contest.
Perry is still undecided about his own prospects, but the explosion of interest in...
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Two members of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign have resigned. The two also happen to be key advisors to Texas Governor Rick Perry. This has led to renewed speculation that Mr. Perry is on the verge of announcing a Presidential bid. Jim Henson, with UT-Austin's Texas Politics Project, says the...
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Texas lawmakers have landed up in a special session. But in national politics it’s a different story.
KUT’s Emily Donahue sat down this week with Garner Selby of the Statesman’s Politifact Texas.
This week, Politifact traveled away from Texas and looked into presidential politics and...
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Governor Rick Perry teased voters over a possible run in the 2012 GOP Presidential primary some more Friday during a legislative press conference. But this latest indication that Perry could run, a few words that set off a storm of speculation on the internet, can be seen as part of an...
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Rick Perry made history last November, becoming the first person elected to three four-year terms as governor. Now there's speculation that he'd like to make more history, like becoming the second consecutive Texas governor to be elected President of the United States.
Nothing's etched in stone,...
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The Texas Legislature has left town. The House and Senate finished up the work needed to balance the state budget on Monday. But while senators adjourned for good Tuesday, the House came back to work on the session's final day.
The House wanted to pass a judiciary bill, which they quickly did,...
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Governor Perry has posted a video invitation to his summer prayer and fasting rally in Houston. The all-day event is scheduled for August 6 at Reliant Stadium.
“As an elected leader, I’m all too aware of government’s limitations when it comes to fixing things that are spiritual in...
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The name "Rick Perry" is coming up more often among those trying to handicap next year's race to be the Republican presidential nominee. He still says he's only thinking about it, but a speaking tour next week is throwing more kerosene onto the Perry for President fire.
The governor speaks...
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The speculation on whether Texas governor Rick Perry will run for President got some added fuel this week.
On this week's KUT/Texas Tribune Tribcast, Evan Smith, Emily Ramshaw, Reeve Hamilton and Ben Philpott talk about the governor's latest foray into the national spotlight: an event called...
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On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry vetoed legislation aimed at collecting more tax from online sales in Texas. The bill would have tightened rules on when online vendors must charge sales tax in the state. Under the proposed rules, retailers who maintain distribution centers in Texas would have had to...
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Rick Perry said today that he will consider a 2012 run for President after the Texas legislative session ends. He told reporters of his plans during a signing ceremony for Texas' new Voter ID Bill, recently passed by the state legislature,
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Emily Ramshaw reports in the Texas Tribune that House lawmakers have sent the controversial abortion sonogram bill to the governor's desk — after a last-ditch effort by disability rights advocates to change language they called highly offensive.
The bill, which requires women seeking abortions...
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