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|name=Rick Perry<br />
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|party=[[Republican]]<br />
|spouse=[[Anita Thigpen Perry]]<br />
|religion=Methodist<br />
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|state=Texas<br />
|terms=December 21, 2000-Present<br />
|preceded=[[George W. Bush]]<br />
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'''James Richard "Rick" Perry''' (b. 1950) has served as the [[Republican]] Governor of [[Texas]] from December 2000, when he succeeded then-Governor [[George W. Bush]] and was elected to full four year terms in 2002 and 2006. He is running for an unprecedented third term in 2010, and defeated Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] in the GOP primary, March 2, 2010.<br />
==Career==<br />
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. Perry is also well known for his voluptuous head of hair.<br />
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==Controversies==<br />
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.<br />
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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><br />
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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>.<br />
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House Bill 2006 would have added protections to property owners facing eminent domain proceedings and it was vetoed.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.governor.state.tx.us/ Official Website]<br />
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