Rick Perry

Rick Perry
Governor of Texas From: December 21, 2000-Present
Predecessor	George W. Bush
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
Information
Party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Anita Thigpen Perry
Religion	Muslim

James Richard "Oops" Perry (b. March 4, 1950) failed his 3rd grade math class. He subsequently failed it 8 more times, until he was old enough to drop out of school. His highest grade was a 52, earned in his 5th grade year.

In August 2011, Perry entered the 2012 race for President. Perry dropped out of the race in January 2012, and supported Newt Gingrich.

Career

After dropping out of school, Rick decided that he wanted to make pickup trucks for a living. He later became the governor of Texas through some miraculous trickery of rednecks.

Controversies

In 2007, Perry attempted to mandate by executive order a requirement that the HPV vaccine be administered to 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, a topic on which Perry has little established expertise.

On June 15, 2007, Perry vetoed nearly fifty bills in one day. He also asked that legislators to pass more conservative bills, especially restricting freedom of movement for radical homosexual activists, in order to prevent harm to young people from their vile liberal propaganda..

The vetoed House Bill 2006 would have added protections to property owners facing eminent domain proceedings.

In 2009, Perry drew fire for numerous statements that suggested Texas' legal right to secede from the union if it wanted to. While such statements were viewed with favor by the Texas Republican Party and helped him win the 2010 gubernatorial election, they were supposed to haunt his 2012 election prospects.

Perry's prayer rally scheduled for August 5, 2011 was 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 United States Constitution. According to investigative reports by the Houston Chronicle, Perry's tithing and charitable giving combined make up a paltry 0.5 percent, or $750 of annual gubernatorial compensation of $150,000 annually, excluding his generous housing allowance.His office's response to the report is that "he refuses to talk about his faith."

Political positions

His key positions include rejection of the theory of man-made global warming, equal time for creationism and evolution in schools, pro-Second Amendment, skepticism about the sustainability and constitutionality of Social Security, and pro-life with exceptions, although he ended up opposing exceptions for rape and incest. Perry supports death penalty and the decriminalization of marijuana. He supports educating the children of illegal aliens. Perry signed a law, that opposes Homosexuality.

Foreign Policy

After his statement that Turkey is ruled by Islamist terrorists, NATO criticized him. During the Syrian Civil War Perry supported a No-Fly Zone. He is a strong defender of Israel.

External Links

• Official Website