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3 Sep 2007, 9:46 pm
Rick Perry stopped the execution of a death row inmate who was scheduled to die hours later. [read post]
3 Sep 2007, 9:46 pm
Rick Perry stopped the execution of a death row inmate who was scheduled to die hours later. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 10:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(See the update below.)In the meantime, we can now give a statistic that wasn't possible to state with certainty before (and which would have been underestimated, ironically, based on faulty public reporting): Texans requesting clemency (of all types) during Rick Perry's tenure as Governor had a 3.53% of having it granted. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 6:15 pm
Rick Perry looks like a desperate man with his decision to jettison the chairman of the state's forensic science panel. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 12:13 am
Rick Perry looks like a desperate man with his decision to jettison the chairman of the state's forensic science panel. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Perry, (SD TX, July 28, 2011), a Texas federal district court held that plaintiffs lack standing to challenge as an Establishment Clause violation Texas Governor Rick Perry's proclamation declaring August 6 as "A Day of Prayer and Fasting for Our Nation" and his involvement with the American Family Association in sponsoring a prayer rally scheduled for that day. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 8:25 am by Steve Hall
Rick Perry at the Texas Forensic Science Commission last fall, Perry sacked three commission members, including its chairman. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 8:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I don't expect Rick Perry to take such a bold step, but this year's Christmas pardons raise those questions, however unlikely such actions might seem given the Governor's past pardon record. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 1:15 pm by Walter Reaves
If you believe Rick Perry he just decided recently he would run for President. [read post]
3 May 2007, 3:15 am
So, the regents who Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed to oversee Texas Southern University have now all resigned as a result of the latest edition of the chronic scandals at the institution. [read post]
6 Sep 2006, 8:20 am
Texas governor Rick Perry wants the citizens of his state to believe that the reason so many of them do not have access to healthcare--and it is the state with highest number of uninsured in the nation--is because of LAWYERS. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 10:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry has granted about one out of every 33 clemency requests received by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles since he took office in 2001. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 4:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry a "Pants on Fire" rating for saying that crime dropped 60% along the border because of his much-ballyhooed pork-barrel grants (with tough sounding names like "Operation Linebacker" and "Operation Wrangler") to Sheriffs. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 4:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry a "Pants on Fire" rating for saying that crime dropped 60% along the border because of his much-ballyhooed pork-barrel grants (with tough sounding names like "Operation Linebacker" and "Operation Wrangler") to Sheriffs. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 12:52 pm
(photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle) Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed today Justice Eva Guzman of the 14th Court of Appeals to serve on the Supreme Court of Texas. [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 3:14 pm
AP reports that hours after Texas Governor Rick Perry kicked off his second full term in office, Ted Nugent, a rocker popular in the 1970s perhaps best known for his signature (and to some anti-woman) song Stranglehold (click here to... [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 7:17 am
Rick Perry to issue a pardon, even though Perry says his hands are tied. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 9:45 pm
Rich Lowry correctly predicts the reaction of the Manhattan-Beltway media elite to Governor Rick Perry.In fact that reaction has already begun to unfold, along with absurd predictions like this one in The Hill.Who is... [read post]