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Rick Perry stories: 24 news summaries

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 Hutchison Won't 
 Resign Senate Seat 

Will stay put to fight health care reform, cap and trade

Nov 14, 09 7:11 AM CST
(AP) - Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is challenging Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his job, is planning to keep her US Senate seat until after the state's March gubernatorial primary. Hutchison, a Republican, plans to tell Republican women in a speech in Galveston today that she is stepping down in 2010... More »

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Texas • Senate • Rick Perry • governor • Kay Bailey Hutchison • Republicans

NEWT GINGRICH & RICK PERRY

 Let States Lead on Health Care 

Federal meddling will only lead to higher prices and crappy care

Nov 6, 09 1:44 PM CST
(Newser) - The states have a handle on health care reform, write Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry, and the federal government urgently needs to take a lesson from them. “Texas, for example, has adopted approaches to controlling health-care costs while improving choice, advancing quality of care and expanding coverage” write the... More »

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Congress • Newt Gingrich • Texas • Senate • House of Representatives • US states • Rick Perry • health care reform

States Pass on Stimulus Money for Unemployed

$3.1B sitting unused in federal coffers

Aug 31, 09 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than $3.1 billion in stimulus money earmarked for the unemployed is idling in federal coffers, USA Today reports, because 23 states haven’t expanded their unemployment benefits in order to qualify. Another 350,000 workers could receive benefits if they did, according to one worker advocacy group.... More »

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Rick Perry • unemployment • unemployment benefits • economic stimulus package

Hutchison Kicks Off Bid
for Texas Governor

Texas senator says Rick Perry has had his chance

Aug 17, 09 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced her bid for Texas governor today and began a 5-day string of stumping appearances around the state, the Dallas Morning News reports. Talking at her old high school, Hutchison attacked fellow Republican Gov. Rick Perry for allowing property tax rates to rise and for failing... More »

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Republican • Texas • primary • GOP • Rick Perry • fiscal conservatives • economic stimulus package • Kay Bailey Hutchison • gubernatorial races

 Texas Gov Compares 
 Mexico to Gaza Strip 

Trip to Israel is this third

Aug 14, 09 4:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - On a trip to Israel this week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry compared Mexico with the Gaza Strip and said his state could learn from his hosts when it comes to security. "Just like it's important to Israelis to keep heavy security on their border with Gaza, it's important to... More »

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Israel • Texas • Mexico • Rick Perry • border • Gaza Strip border • Kay Bailey Hutchison

Texas Gov: Obama Health Reforms Violate
States' Rights

Vows to resist with
10th Amendment

Jul 25, 09 4:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry is gearing up for a constitutional fight over President Obama's health care plans. He warned that he might invoke the 10th Amendment’s protections for states’ rights to resist them, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. “I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if... More »

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Barack Obama • Texas • Rick Perry • health care reform

Interview



 Palin Plans Return 
 to National Stage 

Ex-Guv will campaign for any 'nonpartisans' who share her views

Jul 12, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin plans to spend her post-gubernatorial free time traveling the nation, stumping for "nonpartisan" politicians. She'll support those "who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation," she tells the Washington Times in an exclusive interview. But Palin's plans will only work... More »

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Alaska • Rick Perry • governor • stump speech • campaigning • Sarah Palin • nonpartisan

(Newser) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s stand against the intrusion of federal power on states’ rights is straight from an 1832 playbook, Ed Kilgore writes for the Democratic Strategist. And the argument John C. Calhoun made then is still wrong. Miffed that the GOP is out of power, Kilgore writes, Perry... More »

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Texas • Rick Perry • secession • Federal government • states' rights • nullification • John C. Calhoun

 Perry Asks Feds 
 for Swine Flu Meds 

Seems like only yesterday he was talkin' 'bout a secession

Apr 26, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Turning sharply from tea party-inspired talk of secession, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is responding to three known cases of swine flu in his state by asking the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hand over 37,430 precautionary doses of antiviral meds, the San Marcos Daily Record reports.... More »

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Texas • disease • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Rick Perry • virus • antiviral drugs • swine flu

ANALYSIS

Go Ahead
and Mess
With Texas

Nate Silver does electoral math for 5
Lone Star States

Apr 24, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An obscure provision of Texas statehood gives it the right to split into five smaller states, writes Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. He outlines the potential new entities:
  1. New Texas: Centered on Austin, as populous as Kentucky, and split down the middle politically—city vs. suburbs.
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Barack Obama • John McCain • Texas • Dallas • Austin • Houston • Rick Perry • Fort Worth • secession • Rio Grande • Arlington, Texas

OPINION

Dear GOP, Americans Are Just Not That Into You: Maher

It's time to move on; Republican obsessing getting creepy

Apr 24, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The GOP is not coping well with loss. After a long, torrid affair with America, Republicans have gotten dumped, and they're hurting, writes Bill Maher in the Los Angeles Times. Now they’re going a little crazy, worrying about all the wrong issues, talking about secession and reeducation camps, throwing... More »

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Rick Perry • Republican Party • Bill Maher • Obama administration • paranoia • Michele Bachmann • President Obama • tea parties

OPINION

Texas Wants to Secede? That Sounds Great!

Democrats would love to have state's 34 electoral votes back

Apr 17, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rick Perry’s talk of seceding from the union might seem crazy, but calling the Texas governor's bluff would be a great deal for Democrats, writes Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. Consider:
  • Democrats would suddenly have a filibuster-proof majority in the 98-seat Senate.
  • Republicans would lose eight more
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Barack Obama • Texas • electoral college • Rick Perry • secession • Election 2008 • George W. Bush • electoral votes

(Newser) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry thinks this union of states we call America is a pretty good thing, but he warned that Washington better not take it for granted, the Dallas Morning News reports. "There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it," he told reporters after addressing the anti-tax, anti-big-government... More »

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Texas • taxes • Austin • protests • Rick Perry • governor • secession • Kay Bailey Hutchison

(Newser) - The fallout from Texas Gov. Rick Perry's rejection of $555 million in stimulus funds for unemployment benefits could threaten his re-election bid—but as other politicians cave to public pressure, Perry has yet to waver, NPR reports. "Everything's going to be viewed through that prism," says the editor... More »

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Texas • Rick Perry • unemployment benefits • governor • economic stimulus package • Kay Bailey Hutchison

 Texas Gov. Rejects 
 $556M Stimulus for Jobless 

Perry says coverage for unemployed would 'drown' businesses

Mar 13, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The governor of Texas has rejected $556 million in federal stimulus money for the state's unemployed, saying yesterday it had too many strings attached, reports the Dallas Morning News. Rick Perry, a Republican, said that the federal rules would burden Texas businesses with new commitments; instead they should be able... More »

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Texas • recession • Rick Perry • Ed Rendell • unemployment • economic stimulus package

Unemployed Furious at Contrarian Govs

Constituents fear
losing out on stimulus dollars over politics

Feb 27, 09 2:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Opposing the stimulus’ expansion of unemployment benefits may be good PR, but there’s one constituency it’s not playing well with: unemployed people. “It just seems unreasonable,” one jobless Texan tells the New York Times, “that when people probably need the help the most, that because... More »

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Rick Perry • unemployment • jobless claims • unemployment benefits • governor • economic stimulus package • Mark Sanford • Obama administration • President Obama • Republicans

OPINION

GOP Guvs Right to See Stimulus Cash as 'Trap'

Say law is a 'budget trap' that will hook them on more spending

Feb 23, 09 8:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Five Republican governors are threatening to turn down much of their stimulus windfall, afraid of taking addictive doses of spending on education, welfare, and health care that the states would have to shoulder in 2011 and beyond. And they're right to worry, the Wall Street Journal says. Take enrolling new... More »

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government spending • Rick Perry • Bobby Jindal • Haley Barbour • economic stimulus package • Mark Sanford • state budgets • Republicans

GOP Guvs Consider Rejecting Stimulus Cash

Conservatives debate turning down package despite budget shortfalls

Feb 19, 09 5:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A number of of Republican governors, carping about terms of the stimulus package, are threateneing to tell the federal government to keep its money, the AP reports. The governors of Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alaska, South Carolina and Idaho have expressed concerns that the package comes with too many strings attached... More »

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Republican • GOP • Rick Perry • governor • economic stimulus package

 Bush Follows Ike to Texas 


Sep 16, 08 4:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush visited Houston and took an air tour over Galveston today, urging Americans to continue contributions to the Red Cross and other charities and promising timely aid from state and federal governments, the Washington Post reports. Meanwhile, Houston Mayor Bill White grumbled about a slow FEMA response to... More »

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Texas • Houston • Rick Perry • FEMA • Galveston • Bill White • George W. Bush • R. David Paulison • Hurricane Ike

 Rescuers Struggle 
 to Reach Ike Survivors 

4 dead, 140,000 need help

Sep 14, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hurricane Ike has weakened to a tropical depression over Arkansas, but rescuers are struggling to reach survivors in the furious storm's path of destruction in Texas, reports CNN. Some 140,000 who stayed home despite evacuation orders are now dealing with massive flooding, wrecked homes and power outages. Nearly 1,... More »

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Rick Perry • rescue • power outage • oil refineries • tropical depression • Hurricane Ike

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