Rick Perry : The Record

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Rick Perry: The Record

It would be useful to collect and have available at DU multiple Rick Perry stories so they would be easy to find. If you have links to important Perry stories, please post them in a reply to this message and I will add and regularly update the entire in DU.

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In General: Keeping Track of Perry:

Ashling sent this fine overview link:

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/11296/everything-everyone-thinks-you-need-to-know-about-rick-perry


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Rick Perry on Social Security and Medicare:

From a Newsweek interview:

PERRY: I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term “general welfare” in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government. I stand very clear on that. From my perspective, the states could substantially better operate those programs if that’s what those states decided to do.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/12/rick-perry-exclusive-newsweek-interview-calls-for-dismantling-social-security-and-medicare.html


CNN interview with Parker Spitzer:, Nov. 4, 2010:

http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/04/perry-let-states-decide-social-security/


Perry hedges on Social Security Aug. 15, 2011:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61403.html


Time's appraisal Aug. 15, 2011:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2088599,00.html


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Rick Perry's role in the execution of an innocent man on TX death row and covering it up:

Quick summary:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/08/16/rick-perry-cameron-todd-willingham-and-the-death-penalty


Salon's more extensive presentation:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/25/cameron_todd_willingham_rick_perry


CNN on cover-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpSn6rh4USE


Huffington Post's presentation:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/new-film-at-silverdocs-ex_b_883674.html

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Perry awarded his political donors huge contracts:

LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0816-perry-donors-20110816,0,7718310.story

[annabanana]

1. Bookmarked!!. . . . . .n/t

[ashling]

2. And here

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/11296/everything-everyone-thinks-you-need-to-know-about-rick-perry

[gateley]

3. Bookmarked. Our "people" need to get 10 second sound bites

pointing these out, and repeating them over and over. Short. To the point. Deadly. Can we do it?

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Another texas snake oil salesman. He's brazen enough

to spout off with lunatic nonsense like this & the press is eating it up.

[lumpy]

5. Good stuff- Perry is worse than Geo.W.Bush if that is

possible. He uses the same 'good old boy' crap that Dubya put to effective use. Perry wants to revise/or do away with, all the progressive programs that been put in place over the years. his ideas of dissolving a United States would ultimately lead to more confusion and disruption. Really, God help us if he should make it to the WH.

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6. Added at end. In Tomorrow's version

Wall Street Journal on Perry's "Crony Capitalism" (Aug. 13, 2011):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428262897285614.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet



Perry's Ties To Merek, makers of the HPV vaccine he promoted in TX:



Wall Stree Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428262897285614.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet




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Perry on TX secession: (April 15, 2009)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/gov-rick-perry-texas-coul_n_187490.html





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Perry's Jobs Miracle:


Daily Kos summary:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/16/1007494/-Rick-Perrys-Texas-miracle-is-built-on-minimum-wage-jobs

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7. The fuller version, basis for tomorrow's:

Rick Perry: The Record

It would be useful to collect and have available multiple Rick Perry stories so they would be easy to find. If you have links to important Perry stories, please post them in a reply to this message and I will add and regularly update the entire in DU.


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In General: Keeping Track of Perry:

Ashling sent this fine overview link:

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/11296/everything-everyone-thinks-you-need-to-know-about-rick-perry

In this, the Perry Media Archives section is invaluable for finding state-news archives on Perry's misdeeds and potential misdeeds.



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Rick Perry on Social Security and Medicare:

From a Newsweek interview:

PERRY: I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term “general welfare” in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government. I stand very clear on that. From my perspective, the states could substantially better operate those programs if that’s what those states decided to do.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/12/rick-perry-exclusive-newsweek-interview-calls-for-dismantling-social-security-and-medicare.html


CNN interview with Parker Spitzer:, Nov. 4, 2010:

http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/04/perry-let-states-decide-social-security/


Perry hedges on Social Security Aug. 15, 2011:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61403.html


Time's appraisal Aug. 15, 2011:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2088599,00.html


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Rick Perry's role in the execution of an innocent man on TX death row and covering it up:

Quick summary:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/08/16/rick-perry-cameron-todd-willingham-and-the-death-penalty


The original New Yorker article (Sept. 7, 2009):

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all


Salon's summary:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/25/cameron_todd_willingham_rick_perry


CNN on cover-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpSn6rh4USE


Huffington Post's presentation:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/new-film-at-silverdocs-ex_b_883674.html


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Perry awarded his political donors huge contracts:


LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0816-perry-donors-20110816,0,7718310.story


Wall Street Journal on Perry's "Crony Capitalism" (Aug. 13, 2011):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428262897285614.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet


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Perry's Ties To Merek, makers of the HPV vaccine he promoted in TX:


Washington Post: (Feb. 21, 2007)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022102025.html


Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428262897285614.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet



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Perry on TX secession: (April 15, 2009)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/gov-rick-perry-texas-coul_n_187490.html




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Perry's Jobs "Miracle":


Houston Chronicle blog (July 21, 2011):

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/ten-reasons-why-the-texas-economy-is-growing-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-rick-perry/



Daily Kos summary:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/16/1007494/-Rick-Perrys-Texas-miracle-is-built-on-minimum-wage-jobs