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Texas’ Rick Perry to lead RGA

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  November 12th, 2010 at 04:13 PM  | 

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Texas Governor Rick Perry will be named chairman of the Republican Governors Association when the group gathers in California next week.

Perry’s appointment to the RGA won’t be the governor’s first rodeo: He led the same committee in 2008 and had worked in varying capacities for the group in years prior.

The Washington-bound move — not the move for which some Republican donors had hoped — comes as Perry will soon become Texas’ longest serving chief executive, entering now his tenth year in the governor’s mansion.

The Texas Republican will replace Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty atop the committee as it prepares for three gubernatorial contests in Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky in the 2011 election season.

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  • fpete13527

    I like this exstensively:)

  • Darin_H

  • ktsub

    The man has perfect political skills. KY, MS and LA will be good contest going into 2012. Candidates for KY governor get ready.

  • davidabippus

    Perry will do a great job and keep the momentum at the RGA moving forward.

  • freemanja1991

    Is this even going to be work.

    Bobby will win in LA on the first ballot (they have the weird no primary, and no run off if the candidate get 50% on the first ballot)

    The Current Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi is running to replace Haley and this race should be easy to maintain.

    We should be able to gain Kentucky, but it will be the only real fight here.

    I personally am more concerned with state constitutional officers
    We need to pick up the
    AG in MS
    AG in LA (at least the Dem is suing over health care the only D)
    AG, Treas, Aduitor, in KY.

    And of course we need to maintain all of the state wide offices we have.
    Who is in charge of State wide offices (State Party, RNC, RGA)? Some are very important maybe the RGA should take over help to win these, as well as the state parties?

    • ktsub

      The Republican State Leadership Committee, a quiet group that raised lots of money for legislative and downballot races since 2002.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    Looks like he is definitely running for prez.

  • texasgalt

    if he is going to run for prez.

    This job clears it up and good thing . . . had he run, he might of won and then the WH would be a great risk. I mean apparently, nobody can find out who burned Perry out of the Governor’s Mansion.

    Not to mention, there is no room on the WH grounds for a skeet range nor any coyotes to shoot.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
      • acat

        only with Uncle Sugar instead of Bernie Madoff or Charlie Ponzi* ….

        Like a number of Dem-forced policies, letting the government take over the role that should belong to family and church, turning what should reinforce respect for elders into resentment for taxes to pay for elders… disgusting.

        Give ‘em truth, Gamecock!

        Mew

        • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

          that if you, as a business owner, designed a retirement plan for your employees based on the Social Security system you’d be in jail.

  • chihank

    Perhaps Perry is angling for Veep instead

    • cactusjack

      a crystal ball for the last two years and it’s working pretty good. He sees something no one else sees, and he is acting on it now.

  • graciegirl

    I was a person who made precinct calls for him in a Red county. Difficult!!We have some very bitter folks here who only voted for him as the lessor of two.

    Although most of us are thrilled to have him over Bill White, many Pubs refused to vote for him. He went around the legislature to pass an executive order requiring teen girls to take the HPV vaccine, later rescinded. Other controversies included Trans TX Corridor, weak enforcement of immigration, etc. I am not sure he could carry Texas!

    I am sure he can handle Rep Gov Assoc but Please guys look elsewhere for Prez! the Peter Principle?

    • cactusjack

      in modern American politics that is virtually landslide territory. Of course like all the rest of em he’s a politician – but an especially good one.

      • izoneguy

        http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/transcript/texas-gov-perry-congress-obama-administration-039abject-failures039-border-security

        VAN SUSTEREN: Before we get to your book — lots happening in Mexico over the weekend. Not a surprise, but 20 more, at least, 20 more murdered.

        PERRY: Five Texans lost their lives last week, including a Texas National Guard troop in Juarez who was killed. And my question to this administration, how many Americans have to die on that border before you really understand we need boots on the ground, a law enforcement presence, National Guard troops, predator drones flying in the air, that technology that those pieces of equipment have to give real-time information to law enforcement, to the local police chiefs?

        We know how to secure the border, but this administration and frankly this Congress have been abject failures and have been for many years now. But we’re seeing our citizens being killed. And this is unacceptable.

        VAN SUSTEREN: It is interesting. The big fight seems to be whether we seal the border and have comprehensive immigration reform at the same for do it in two steps. Does it even matter? We’re in the process of debating, or we are getting nothing done.

        PERRY: I think it does matter. I don’t think the American people trust Congress to do them together. I think they expect them to see that border secure. They want to see the law enforcement presence. They want to see drug cartels driven away from that border. Then we can have a conversation about how to reform immigration laws so we have a free flow of people.

        Mexico is our number one trading partner. This is really important for Texans to get it right. We’ve got to secure that border first that is the first order of business.

        VAN SUSTEREN: Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said, and I looked at her statistics to back it up, they are deporting more than ever before. They’ve got more boots there on the ground. But the fact remains we don’t seem to be getting ahead of the problem. Do you have a suggestion?

        PERRY: Yes. I’ve asked for 1,000 National Guard troops since January of 2009. And all we’ve heard from her has been a chortle from time to time and to say, listen, if you want National Guard troops. Send them yourself and pay for them yourself.

        That is absolutely irresponsible for a federal agency head to be saying when we seen American citizens losing their lives. It is absolutely irresponsible for them not to have the troops — sending 230 of the 1,200 that they were going to send to Texas, that’s nonsense. We have a 1,200 mile border, and 12 of the 1,800 miles in Texas. That’s where you’ve got to focus the work and the people and the resources.

        VAN SUSTEREN: Have you been able to reach out to President Obama on this issue? I know you passed him a note in Texas on the tarmac.

        PERRY: This president knows what is going on. Reaching out, we reach out, we reach out. And hopefully the American people reached out last Tuesday and sent a clear message that we don’t like the direction you’re headed in this country.

        If you want to have a chance to serve again, you best start listening us to. And one of the things really important to Americans is their safety. And that border with Mexico needs to be secured.

        VAN SUSTEREN: Do you think he understands that and is going to do something different?

        PERRY: We have to wait and see. We haven’t seen any indications yet they’re doing anything different.

      • jarrod21

        David Dewhurst got 3,044,770 votes to Perry’s 2,733,784. Of course, Perry did lose the nutter vote from the disgruntled Medina supporters, but that doesn’t account for 300k.

        The democrats got 1,715,735 in the Lt. Gov and 2,102,606 in the Gov race, a difference of 386,871. Bill White picked up 40kish votes from the Green Party candidate and 20kish from the Libertarian Candidate, given the difference from the candidates in both races. That means he picked up more than 300k votes from Republicans. Granted, it was from 300k Republicans with their heads up their butts who think voting for the guy who ran Houston like it was his personal kingdom, but that’s a big number. Perry fatigue is a real thing in this state.

        I voted for Perry and I did it happily, but any Governor who has been in charge for a decade is going to pick up some stink and will make some people angry.

        • jarrod21

          **who think voting for the guy who ran Houston like it was his personal kingdom was a good idea**

          • cactusjack

            Michael Steele and the crew at RNC have no concept whatsoever, what that sentence I just wrote means. None whatsoever. Or, the national opportunity lying unexploited therein. ( Unless a donor explains it to him over drinks at the strip club in Virginia, which wont happen.) I think the RNC couldn’t find Brownsville on a map let alone Houston or Dallas, without OnStar. A tremendous lost opportunity to study how this Republican pulls this kind of support in Cameron, Webb, Hidalgo and Starr Counties, Texas.

      • cactusjack

        about Perry fatigue but your arguments and facts offered seemed to prove the rule not the exception. 57-42 is still a stunning blowout for a third termer and IIRC it is higher than even R pollsters forecast he would win by: 54 points or less.

      • graciegirl

        It isn’t all about polls; it was a lot about Bill White. And thank the Lord we did not get him. I can just see him joining forces with O re: our refineries, drilling, taxes. I loved the way Perry did not cave to O about that money for education that would have broken our Constitution had we taken it.

        I was thrilled to have him to vote for and expect him to be even better going forward because he has learned a lot and frankly we have and will hold his feet to the fire.

        Fail to understand that being a good Governor automatically makes him Prez material. I became a blue isicle in theTexas sun talking ppl into Perry over White. From other diaries here (Scope) there are just so many other more qualified ppl for the big job. JMO.

    • izoneguy

      Now any highway proposal is lumped in with the idea that it MUST be part of Rick Perry’s evil plan to hand over Texas highways to a Spanish company. I do some work for TxDOT and the blogger/critics are way of base and have no idea what they are talking about.

      http://startelegram.typepad.com/honkin_mad/2010/08/trans-texas-corridor-or-my-35.html

      The Texas Department of Transportation is still having trust issues with critics who think the agency is secretly trying to build the Trans Texas Corridor, officials said Wednesday.

      The transportation department decided last year not to proceed with the Trans Texas Corridor ? an idea originally proposed by Gov. Rick Perry to build toll roads, rail lines and utilities across the state. Instead, the agency is now pursuing a scaled-back planning effort for the Interstate 35 corridor. That project is dubbed MY 35. MY 35 is a statewide effort to get local officials involved in planning efforts for future road work and other transportation improvements along the I-35 corridor, from the border with Mexico to Oklahoma.

      It?s a marked contrast from the Trans Texas Corridor, which was criticized for being a top-down project, with officials in Austin dictating where the roads would go. The Trans Texas Corridor was also widely panned by critics who thought it would lead to a ?NAFTA Superhighway? that would facilitate the United States, Canada and Mexico merging into a North American union.

      • texasgalt

        nt

        • cactusjack

          it would have cut off access into/out of the South Texas mega-ranches and huge oil & gas fields along US 59. It would have looked like a 1930′s style German autobahn – no feeders either side, sunken in the ground, no crossovers, no exits or entries for fifty or sixty miles at a pace. They were watching cautiously to see if the TTC project went anywhere; wouldn’t be surprised if some extremely high powered high level conversations were had 2 yrs agi that put TTC to bed. Perry continues to play this all very carefully. He wants real, enforceable border security, but he also gets something Wash DC cannot even conceive of – Texas and its sister northern Mexican border states, are symbiotically linked economically. As the rest of the United States broaches insolvency due to devaluing currency and the bankruptcies of CA and possibly NY, and a grasping federal government starts looting wealth anywhere in the US it can find it – guess where a big chunk of that is now? – Texas must be prepared as it has so many times had to, stand on its own economically. Shoring up the border not only with security, but good trade agreements and cross border-states relations, is step one and he and Dewhurst have been concentrating on it for about the last four years. Check how many trips they’ve made to the trans Rio Grande Governors; check out one of the special duties of the Texas SOS is now that no other SOS in the Union has. Dallas, Monterrey and San Antonio have more and more in common besides good air connections, than they mutually do with much of their parent countries right now, or D.F. or Wash. D.C. If preparation is made now, harder times coming will be more bearable in this part of North America. What else should they do when 0 and the Dems give every appearance they have gone mad?

          • proudgop

            Not too many Gov Races in 2012 I think? WA, ND, MO, WV, NC, NH, IN, VT

            LA, KY, MS 2011

          • renegade_republican85

            I liked your presentation.

    • ntrepid

      Mr. Perry is probably the best election year governor anyone can ask for but?graciegirl hits some hot buttons above but for me it also included the hard line border security rhetoric four years ago the fell completely silent immediately after the election = SHALLOW OPPORTUNIST!!!

      The last two elections I happened to voted for every R on the ballot that needed a vote (not unopposed) except the Rickster. (No, I did not vote for Bill White.) I saw him in person yesterday at a Barnes & Noble book signing with Mr. Gingrich and (for me, at least) he is every bit as unimpressive in the flesh as he is by reputation.

      Any other R with a pulse (except Sen. McCain) in 2012, please

      Ntrepid
      Proud Redstate Member since April 2006??

      • NewTexanDave

        I agree with some pre-election comments that Perry is good at being a governor but may not be the best candidate for prez. That’s said, I think he did a great job on the last election. Since I don’t usually watch TV, I’ve only seen one ad each from both Perry and White. Perry’s ad was very simple but powerful- jobs, low taxes, good schools while White’s ad focused on personal attacks and how great he was because “JFK endorsed him”. So far I like Sarah Palin the best as a prez candidate–if not 2012 maybe later, but she needs to be able to stand strong in front of TV cameras. I understand her reputation has been hurt somewhat by malicious lefty attacks –especially people who watch TVs or “Yahoo/MSN headlines” on a daily basis tend to have more negative attitude against her, but I’m expecting a come back even if not in 2012. I had some doubt before and I don’t agree with her 100% but after reading her book I now have a more positive impression. It’s really sad that nowadays TVs still have the biggest impact in an election….

  • usedtobelib

    Right guy or not, the country will not be receptive so soon to another President from the state of Texas.

    • acat

      Just need a winning “America’s Team” … (grin)

      Seriously, I don’t think that overcoming being “from Texas” will be a problem. Unlike LBJ, for example, I never had the perception that W favored Texas, so the legacy isn’t, I think, a serious negative.

      Mew

    • jarrod21

      Lord knows we’re better than everyone else. Non-Texans sometimes resent that fact.