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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]
28 Dec 2011, 5:15 am
"Gingrich, Perry dismiss ability of courts to end anti-abortion law": The Hill has a report that begins, "GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry said the Supreme Court should not be able to challenge anti-abortion measures during a GOP candidates' forum Tuesday night. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 11:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry announced this afternoon that he will not run for re-election as Texas Governor, meaning someone else (odds-on favorite is Greg Abbott) will be wielding the veto pen in 2015. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 3:52 am
Rick Perry said he'll spare Kenneth Foster from hisscheduled execution Thursday night and commute his sentence to life.In doing so, Perry accepts a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardonsand Paroles, which voted 6-1 today to urge the commutation.Foster had faced execution Thursday night in Huntsville for being thegetaway driver in the 1996 attempted robbery and murder of Michael LaHood inSan Antonio.Perry didn't have to accept the highly unusual … [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 11:40 pm by Lovechilde
Duane Buck Texas Governor Rick Perry is proud of his unprecedented record of 234 executions. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 11:40 pm by Lovechilde
Duane Buck Texas Governor Rick Perry is proud of his unprecedented record of 234 executions. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 6:42 am by brooks
Unfortunately, last Friday, Governor Perry vetoed the texting-while driving bill. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 5:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
When Governor Rick Perry announced his vetoes, Grits praised the Governor's decision to kill legislation criminalizing texting while driving. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 6:51 am
On my show yesterday Mark Steyn and Bill Kristol both weighed in on the attack on Rick Perry by Michele Bachmann's superpac.The complete transcript of my chat with Mark is here. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 3:50 pm by Megan Geuss
(credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke briefly this afternoon to a group of reporters to address topics in energy. [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]
15 Jun 2013, 10:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Just a couple of criminal-justice related vetoes on Governor Rick Perry's 2013 list, but they were both significant.Perry vetoes only de-incarceration bill of the session This one was particularly a bummer. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 2:29 pm by Jonathan Zasloff
Where It Lands I Do Not Care Governor Rick “Crotch” Perry is somewhat of an expert at saying inane things, a trend that has accelerated since he declared his Presidential candidacy. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 11:10 am
Texas Governor Rick Perry has requested that FEMA waive or extend the deadline for FEMA aid to those whose lives have been disrupted by Hurricane Ike. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 3:51 am by SHG
  After all, there could be a sudden fascination with, say, Rick Perry's hair stylist, certainly a matter of significant national concern. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 1:20 am
I'd speculated that the Governor would just wait and appoint the GOP winner in the runoff to be the interim Harris County District Attorney, but Rick Perry must not have liked the remaining two options - Pat Lykos and Kelly Siegler - because the Houston Chronicle reports that he's appointing Assistant US Attorney Ken Magidson Harris County DA, a position he'll hold for the next nine months before returning to the federal prosecutor's office.Mr. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:34 am
Rick Perry after the state parole board recommended that the death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]