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{{Officeholder
|name=Rick Perry
|image=Rick Perry.jpg
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=[[Anita Thigpen Perry]]
|religion=Methodist
|offices=
{{Officeholder/governor
|state=Texas
|terms=December 21, 2000-Present
|preceded=[[George W. Bush]]
|succeeded=
|former=n
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}}
'''James Richard "Rick" Perry''' (b. 1950) has served as the [[Republican]] Governor of [[Texas]] since December 2000, when he succeeded then-Governor [[George W. Bush]] and was elected to full four-year terms in 2002 and 2006. He easily won an unprecedented third term in November 2010, after defeating by a wide margin the [[RINO]] Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] in the GOP primary in March.
In August 2011, Perry entered the [[presidential election 2012|2012 race for President]]. His key positions include rejection of the theory of man-made [[global warming]], equal time for [[creationism]] and [[evolution]] in schools, pro-[[Second Amendment]], and [[pro-life]] with exceptions.
==Career==
A former Democratic state legislator who became a Republican in 1989, Perry was elected to a full term as governor in 2002, which he served, and then reelected to another full term in 2006 with only 39 percent of the vote. Previously he served as the agriculture commissioner (1991-1999), reflecting his background as a college graduate with a degree in animal science.
==Controversies==
He was much criticized concerning his attempt in early 2007 to mandate by executive order the [[HPV vaccine]] for young girls as a condition of entering school. Defiant, Perry then felt he had no choice but to sign a bill overriding his mandate because it had been passed by a huge majority in both houses of the legislature.
He was criticized by the ''Dallas Morning News'' for traveling to Turkey in early June 2007 to give a speech to a "secret forum" on the topic of [[federalism]], which is not even a topic on which Perry has any established expertise.<ref>http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-perry_31tex.ART.State.Edition1.43b926a.html</ref>
On June 15, 2007, Perry vetoed nearly 50 bills in one day. He also asked that legislators quit wasting their time and start passing more conservative bills, especially restricting freedom of movement for radical homosexual activists, in order to prevent harm to young people from their vile propaganda.<ref>http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/138969.html here</ref>.
House Bill 2006 would have added protections to property owners facing eminent domain proceedings and it was vetoed.
In 2009, Perry drew fire for numerous statements that suggested Texas' legal right to secede from the union if it wanted to, a long-discredited legal interpretation which was the main argument of the terrorist [[Republic of Texas]] movement.<ref>[http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/04/17/0417gop.html "Governor says Texas is one state that could leave union, though he's not pushing it"]</ref> While such statements were viewed with favor by the Texas Republican party and helped him win the 2010 gubernatorial election, it is unclear whether they will come back to haunt his 2012 election prospects.
His prayer rally scheduled for August 5, 2011 has been strongly attacked by the left as a violation of the so called "separation of church and state," which is actually a liberal misreading of the constitution<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/opinion/how-to-respond-to-rick-perrys-response.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp "How to respond to Rick Perry's 'Response'"]</ref> True, however, is that Perry's tithing and charitable giving combined make up a paltry 0.5% of his salary, as investigative reporting by the Houston Chronicle has shown.<ref>[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/new/7607414.html "Perry puts faith on display but offers little for collection plate"]</ref> His office's response to this story was "he refuses to talk about his faith."
== References ==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.governor.state.tx.us/ Official Website]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnG_njvuoyA The Left Is "Never Going To Like Us, So Let's Stop Trying To Curry Favor With Them"]
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[[Category:2010 Midterm Elections]]
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