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14 May 2012, 12:32 pm
Rick Perry should place a moratorium on executions, and the next session of the Texas Legislature should vote to abolish the death penalty.Reasoned opposition to capital punishment is rising: • No reliable research supports the claim that capital punishment deters murder, according to an analysis of dozens of studies conducted across 36 years. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 5:13 am
Rick Perry may urge the state to take a step toward loser-pays [NJLRA] “FCC push to regulate news draws fire” [The Hill] Could litigation on behalf of Madoff victims get more than all their money back? [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 8:24 am
Rick Perry’s inexcusable vetoing of a bill which would have outlawed texting while driving in Texas, some good did come out of the most recent state legislative session - at least as far as traffic safety is concerned. [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 9:04 am
A police officer from Rick Perry's hometown of Haskell pleaded no contest two weeks ago "to fabricating physical evidence ... and was sentenced to seven years probation" for planting meth on a suspect at a traffic stop, the Abilene Reporter-News reported (Dec. 31). [read post]
5 May 2009, 7:07 am
The nomination of Shanda Perkins to the parole board - the anti-sex-toy activist chosen by Governor Rick Perry to make decisions about releasing prisoners - comes up tomorrow afternoon in the Senate Nominations Committee. [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 8:58 am
One of the Texas border Sheriffs who was receiving millions in grant funds from Governor Rick Perry's border security program was sentenced to more than half a decade in the federal hoosgow for conspiring with drug cartels to smuggle narcotics through his county. [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 7:04 pm
Six years ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed a ban on texting while driving as an affront to personal liberty. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 5:14 pm
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson granted himself a continuance last week to make his decision on whether to grant Texas Governor Rick Perry’s request for a waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 11:36 pm
Rick Perry. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 2:23 pm
Update: You can read the results here, including favorable mentions of Rick Perry’s legal reform and Carly Fiorina’s critique of Dodd-Frank, as well as a question I wish they’d asked Lindsey Graham and some cruel nicknames coined by P.J. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 3:36 pm
Republican Governor Rick Perry has also expressed his approval. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 1:40 am
It's taken a while since Texas Governor Rick Perry first appointed him "Special Master," but the Lege has finally figured out, and the Master finally admitted at a House Corrections Committee hearing yesterday, that Jay Kimbrough has no authority - zero, zilch, nada - to reform the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
31 May 2007, 4:45 am
Rick Perry signs such legislation. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 9:47 am
Rick Perry (R), claimed that doctors were providing less services to patients because they feared getting sued. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 3:02 pm
Rick Perry in 2010 (here). [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 7:24 am
Tonight's execution would be the 234th conducted under the administration of Rick Perry. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 2:16 pm
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry requesting, among other things, “a moratorium on further LNG export approvals until the definition of ‘public interest’ is fully explored, vetted, and agreed upon. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 6:12 am
Immigration policy is a hot topic thanks in part to the political landscape, Herman Cain's electric fence and Rick Perry's educate them at taxpayer expense proclamations.Of course Obamneycrap is also front and center thanks to the upcoming election and pending Supreme Court docket.So this is a two-fer.The back story is an illegal immigrant is seriously injured in a workplace accident.And he does not have health insurance . . .The University of Texas Medical Branch at… [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 6:59 am
Rick Perry has recommended, reports the Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
11 Apr 2007, 10:55 am
Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:32PM EDTDALLAS (Reuters) - Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1993 rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl.The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty said James Lee Clark's execution was the 152nd in Texas since Rick Perry became governor in December 2000, tying the record set by his predecessor, U.S. [read post]
