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16 Sep 2013, 9:53 am by Buce
Here's the thing: the one thing everybody seems to agree on re Summers, friend and foe alike: he's b-r-r-r-illiant, with the particular capacity for coming into a room and just blowing everybody away with his success at mastering his brief (counting “foes,” I exclude people like Rick Perry who simply do not give a damn what they say). [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 7:14 pm by David Oscar Markus
Rick Perry, the Republican former Texas governor, argued for it when he ran for president in 2016. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 4:07 pm by Shelby Hagenauer
  Joining them are five other Republicans - Candice Miller of Michigan, Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania, Tom Rice of South Carolina, Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, and four Democrats – Peter DeFazio of Oregon, Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington D.C., Rick Larsen of Washington, and Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to look at “P3s across all modes of transportation, economic development, public buildings, water, and maritime… [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 6:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry, no longer specifically names the Mineral Wells facility as one that must close, due to legislative maneuvering by state Reps. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 8:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry after a series of scandals beginning with the Tulia drug stings. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 6:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ponton wants Attorney General and Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbot to stop the fire marshal's investigation into shoddy forensics, pulling a page from John Bradley's playbook when Rick Perry appointed him chair of the Forensic Science Commission and he tried to stop the FSC's investigation into the Todd Willingham case. [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 2:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Will the 84th Legislature, with Rick Perry out of the picture, choose to spend that money to keep DPS and the National Guard at the border instead of on education, healthcare or roads? [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 12:00 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry urging raises for correctional officers (see Grits' earlier discussion here and here), offering these data on statewide understaffing trends: The Department of Criminal Justice currently is over 2,700 officers short, not including the 530 correctional officer positions that were eliminated by your budget cuts this last session. [read post]
16 Oct 2016, 5:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry paid his lawyers upwards of $2 million to defend him against ultimately-dismissed non-capital felony charges, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals thinks a trial judge was reasonable in determining $48,000 was too much to pay the second chair in a capital-murder case resulting in a life-without-parole sentence.In yet another opinion "tinged with despair," Judge Elsa Alcala's dissent, joined by Judge Larry Meyers, aptly explains how ridiculous this… [read post]
26 May 2013, 7:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Given this nascent national debate, Grits is pleased to report that the Texas Legislature has sent a bill to Governor Rick Perry, HB 2268, that in its amended form requires a warrant for law enforcement to access old emails, closing the loophole at least for state and local law enforcement in Texas. [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 4:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry’s newest appointment to the Texas prison system’s governing board because she is a longtime business associate of the current chairman.Officials confirmed that Annette Raggette, who owns a management consulting firm, worked for years for Oliver Bell, chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice — a business tie that would be a rarity for two members of the nine-member prison board.Though business ties between members of state boards used to be… [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 10:57 pm
As a result of the retirement of Justice James Perry, who has announced his retirement effective December 30, 2016, the Florida Supreme Court’s JNC interviewed 11 candidates and nominated three to Governor Rick Scott. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 1:42 pm by Alex Basilevsky
Rick Perry today issued the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ruling on the danger of carbon dioxide:“It is unconscionable that unelected bureaucrats at the EPA have declared carbon dioxide a public danger despite a lack of scientific evidence to support their ruling. [read post]