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Texas Governor Slaps Back Against Obama Executive Action

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The Jeenyus Corner | January 16 2013

Gov. Rick Perry released the following statement regarding President Obama’s executive actions:

“The Vice President’s committee was appointed in response to the tragedy at Newtown, but very few of his recommendations have anything to do with what happened there.

Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. The sad young man who did that in Newtown was clearly haunted by demons and no gun law could have saved the children in Sandy Hook Elementary from his terror.

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Jonathan Benson ~ Texas Congressman Reintroduces Bill To Stop TSA Molestation At Airports

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Natural News | November 21 2012

Once again leading the charge to restore freedom and end the incessant reign of federal terror on American citizens is the state of Texas, which recently initiated the process of effectively castrating the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and stopping the rogue agency from freely molesting travelers at airports throughout the state in the name of national security.

Representative David Simpson, a Republican from Longview, Texas, has successfully filed House Bill 80, also known as the Texas Travel Freedom Act, which would prohibit government agents from touching the private areas of individuals and travelers without probable cause. It would also restrict the TSA from requiring full-body pat downs as a security requirement for travel, as well as prohibit TSA agents from separating minors from their parents during the screening process.

Simpson sponsored a similar bill known as HB 1937 back in 2010, which at that time passed both the Texas House and the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee. But after a U.S. attorney stepped in and threatened to shut down air travel if the bill was passed, it was placed on hold. Texas Governor Rick Perry immediately called the bill into a special session, but it was already too late to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the bill before the close of the session. (http://www.naturalnews.com/032869_TSA_Texas.html)

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David Martosko ~ All 50 States Move To Secede From The Union; 675,000 Signatures Collected

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Govt Slaves | November 14 2012

Less than a week after a New Orleans suburbanite petitioned the White House to allow Louisiana to secede from the United States, petitions from seven states have collected enough signatures to trigger a promised review from the Obama administration.

By 6:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, more than 675,000 digital signatures appeared on 69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states, according to a Daily Caller analysis of requests lodged with the White House’s “We the People” online petition system.

A petition from Vermont, where talk of secession is a regular feature of political life, was the final entry.

Petitions from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas residents have accrued at least 25,000 signatures, the number the Obama administration says it will reward with a staff review of online proposals. (RELATED: Will Texas secede? Petition triggers White House review)

The Texas petition leads all others by a wide margin. Shortly before 9:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, it had attracted 94,700 signatures. But a spokesperson for Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday afternoon that he does not support the idea of his state striking out on its own.

“Gov. Perry believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it. But he also shares the frustrations many Americans have with our federal government,” according to a statement from the governor’s office.

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Raven Clabough ~ Texas Refuses To Implement Obamacare

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The New American | July 10 2012

Texas Governor Rick Perry has joined the ranks of other GOP governors eager to assert the sovereignty of their states by nullifying the ObamaCare law. Perry announced on Monday that the Lone Star State will not be expanding the Medicaid program or creating the necessary healthcare exchange to implement the president’s signature legislation. As noted by Reuters, “The announcement makes Texas the most populous state that has rejected the provisions.”

Texas was one of the 26 states that challenged the healthcare law in 2010. But in light of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling the individual mandate — which is central to ObamaCare — is constitutional, Texas is taking advantage of the Supreme Court’s assertion that the federal government cannot take away Medicaid dollars from states that refuse to comply with the expansion of Medicaid.

Governor Perry sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to inform the Obama administration that Texas opposes the provisions “because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.”

Sebelius spokesman Keith Maley said the department “will continue to work with states to ensure they have the flexibility and resources they need to implement” the law.

But Perry is adamant. In a statement, he declared:

I will not be party to socializing healthcare and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government.

I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab. Neither a “state” exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better “patient protection” or in more “affordable care.” They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.

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Wisconsin Recall Drive More Popular Than GOP Presidential Candidates – Combined

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John Nichols | Nation of Change | January 29 2012

John Nichols

America is almost four weeks into the voting stage of the Republican presidential race. The candidates are debating. The media is covering the competition 24/7, and in such minute detail that Rick Perry’s quitting of the contest was treated as news. And Republicans in three states have caucused and voted in numbers that party leaders, pundits and the talk-radio amen corner tell us are significant.

Yet at the same time, those same party leaders, pundits and radio talkers continue to dismiss the movement to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as a false construct with little real hope of prevailing.

Fair enough, let’s compare.

Since January 3, Republican caucuses have been held in Iowa (with an electorate of 2,231,589), and Republican primaries have been held in New Hampshire (electorate of 998,799) and South Carolina (electorate of 3,385,224).

That adds up to a total electorate of 6,615,612 in the trio of first- (and second- and third-) in-the-nation states.

Turnout for the Iowa caucuses is now pegged at 121,479. Turnout in the New Hampshire primary was 248,448. Turnout in the South Carolina primary was 601,166.

That adds up to a total turnout of 971,093, or about 14.5 percent of the possible voters in the three states.

And what of Wisconsin?

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Gov. Rick Perry’s Memory Stumble…Fatal?

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By Allen Wastler (Managing Editor) | CNBC
November 9 2011

Well, perhaps Perry’s subconscious is helping him fulfill his stated desire never to be US Pres. ~ Gillian

Texas governor Rick Perry may have made a fatal gaffe at the Republican presidential debate Wednesday night.

In the midst of answering a question about reducing the federal deficit, Perry reminded the audience he had a plan to cut three government agencies immediately upon becoming president. But while he reeled off the Department of Commerce and the Department of Education, he could not remember the third.

“It’s fatal,” said Tony Fratto, a former White House spokesman for the Bush Administration. “If it happened on its own he may have survived …. but there have been a series of gaffes and this is probably fatal.”

Another Republican strategist agreed.

“It was the death knell,” said Sara Fagen, former director of political affairs for the Bush Administration. “Perry had the opportunity to re-emerge at this debate…and he squandered that opportunity.”

Futures on Perry’s candidacy at Intrade, the online trading site that allows futures trading on candidate prospects and other types of bets, immediately took a dive following the blunder.

Later in the debate, presented by CNBC at Oakland University in Michigan, Perry offered that the third agency was the Department of Energy.

Immediately after the debate, the governor told members of the media who had gathered in the “spin room” that he had “stepped in it out there.”

Taking full responsibility for his slip-up, Perry went on to say, “I stepped in it man, it was embarrassing, of course it was.”

Trying to get the conversation back to his message Perry told reporters, “the bottom line is I may have forgotten energy but I haven’t forgotten my conservative principles” adding, “I’ll be in SC on Saturday and hopefully I’ll remember the energy department.”

© 2011 CNBC.com

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