Rick Perry won’t seek reelection

What a sad day.

In a world filled with folks who constantly say and do things that I like to rail against, the one that provides a (*)(*)(*)(*) all lot of targets is not running for reelection in Texas.

Yes folks, the beloved governor of Texas has announced he will not be running for office again where he has been for what, 13 years now?

Ah Ricker, we are going to miss you.

But wait! He has decided to ask for guidance and see if they will support him or encourage him to run for president of these here United States. What an excellent basis for a decision to run for president, whether or not an invisible man in the sky approves or disapproves.

God I hope he runs for president.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/08/rick-perry-wont-seek-reelection/

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) announced Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2014.

“The time has come to pass on the mantle of leadership,” he said at a rally in San Antonio. “Today, I’m announcing I will not seek reelection as governor of Texas.”

Perry has served as governor since 2000, when then-Gov. George W. Bush (R) became president. Perry was elected to full terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010.

Perry also alluded to a potential 2016 presidential run, saying he will “pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path.”

Since his 2012 presidential bid floundered – capped off by his “oops” moment at a presidential debate — Perry has eyed a second run.

“Any future considerations I will announce in due time, and I will arrive at that decision appropriately,” he said.

For now, though, he said he will focus intently on his final 18 months as governor.

“After January of 2015, new chapters will be written. New leaders will write them,” Perry said. “But the focus must remain on the greatest state in the nation and opportunity for her people’

Perry’s announcement came at an elaborate press conference at a Caterpillar plant. A campaign-style video recapped Perry’s accomplishments as governor, before the governor himself made his case for why his tenure has been a success.

 

You can imagine the Democrats' TV ads if Perry won the Nomination....

first, every flip-flop he makes (and he'd make them)....show both versions then him saying "Err...oops".

second, the ads morphing him into Dubya....with the voice-over "Texas....Republican...Governor....for President??? What's the worst that could happen?" Then images of 9/11....the Stock Market crashing....the housing market crashing, etc.

 

Remember when people thought he was going to take down Obama... then he opened his mouth?

 

Rick Perry is not someone who can be elected by the national electorate. He may do fine in Texas but get him out of the south and he scares the hell out of everyone. Hopefully we will have a good choice for the Republican ticket for once, these ultra-conservative monkeys are going to ruin the Republican party if we let them.

 

The Democrats are praying to their political gods that Perry runs. I hope he does, too. Any laughs you can get during election season are a plus.

 

I love it here in Texas. Business is booming, companies are sprouting up, the tax levels are attracting all sorts of businesses from California, New York, Colorado. The medical industry is at an all time high, manufacturing and the oil and gas industry continue to be tops in the country.

Jobs are a plenty, cost of living is relatively low, even here in Houston.

Better yet...

The Republican called for changing the constitution of the state, the nation’s second most populous, to allow the return of tax money to the people who paid it when the state brings in more than needed.

"We’ve never bought into the notion that if you collect more, you need to spend more," Perry said in his state of the state address, which he delivered to a joint session of the Texas House and Senate.

I'm sure he would have been a disaster as president. No way he could have stacked up to Our Dear Leader.

 

If the Big Donors think he'll fail....."suddenly" "God has spoken to my heart and I've decided not to run". Ditto the reverse.

"Oops" may not be a killer for him. All he needs is a good Smear Merchant like Karl Rove (as Dubya did) and enough money to buy negative TV ads against his challengers (as Romney did)....and he could win the Nomination.

Then? The Right would PRAY that Biden is the Dem nominee. Because pretty much anybody else would mop the floor with Perry.....whereas Biden might actually let Perry win 8 or 9 states.

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How's Texas rank on education?

 

Why do you guys want him to run so badly? He wouldn't get the nomination...

 

Yep, an then Obama turned on his teleprompter and won the elections... we are suffering from the consequences of this for the past few years.. while Perry head to Texas and their economy started to grow....



Oh well..

 

And why did he win the election? Wasn't the 8 years of Dubya so successful that people wanted 4-8 more of it with Maverick and Glacier Gidget?

Or things not going that well? And if they weren't going that well under the LAST "Texas Republican Governor" we elected President.....why would the voters want to try it again so soon????

 

Perry's got a huge ego; he'll most likely run.

 

He clearly wasn't prepared for the run. BUT he's got principle and integrity over Obama; hands down. PLUS, he actually knows how to create the environment for job; create jobs; and make Texas a place people want to live in. There was an Op-ed piece just this morning in the Dallas Morning News from a guy who just moved his family here to Texas from California. He's always lived in California and all his kids were born and raised there. But he's had it with that state and is now here in Texas and LOVING it. He didn't have one good thing to say about California, though.

 

It takes a huge ego to run. One has to believe in themselves and what they want to do for the country. Perry would be great at creating an environment for jobs; just like he's done here in Texas. And he would be positive in promoting our country. And that's exactly what we need.

 

About 100,000 more people moved away from California in 2011 than relocated to the Golden State, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The trend can be explained, in part, in monetary terms. Even in an economic boom, the cost of living in California has increased, prompting people to move out, and, in recent years, unemployment in the state has skyrocketed.

So, where are these former Californians going?

The Census Bureau calculates that the most popular destination is Texas (58,992), a state that is luring California companies.

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspi...al-facts-behind-the-lone-star-states-miracle/

Politicians and economists alike are invested in promoting or debunking the “Texas Miracle”—the contention that Texas is better off economically due to policies that favor lower taxes and less regulation.

New economic data provides more grist for this discussion.

If Texas is doing well and does offer a model to the nation, then one set of policy choices ought to be followed. Or, if Texas isn’t doing all that well or does not offer a useful model to follow, then Texas can be ignored in the larger, national discussion of what policies work best for general prosperity.

There are two arguments frequently deployed against Texas: Texas’ economic growth is driven by population increases due to the attractiveness to business of cheap labor and a warm climate; and energy production plays the main role in Texas’ economy.

Texas’s relative success is best measured against a peer: California.

California and Texas are the most populous states. They both have diverse populations, large numbers of immigrants, abundant energy and natural resources, long coastlines and a border with Mexico.

Most importantly, California and Texas, alike in many ways, have diametrically opposed public policies. California’s state and local tax burden ranks as America’s 4th-highest compared to Texas at 45th. California taxes a 42 percent larger share of state income than does Texas, California’s restrictive energy policies discourage oil extraction, even though it has the largest proven shale oil reserves in the nation; while its industrial electrical rates are 88 percent higher than in Texas.

These policy differences contribute to a divergence in economic performance.

In June, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released new data on state real per capita gross domestic product for 2012. Performance for 2009-2011 was also revised, with California seeing a downward revision of 2.6 percent and while Texas’ performance was revised upward by 0.5 percent. The new figures show that in 2011 Texas surpassed California in real per capita gross domestic product while a separate report showed Texas expanding its lead in real per capita personal income.

What’s remarkable about this data showing Texas’ prosperity relative to California is how counter it runs to prevailing notions that California, with Silicon Valley and Hollywood, is a land of wealth and opportunity while Texas, part of the South, is mired in low wage poverty. In fact, Silicon Valley, as important as it is to California, only amounts to 10.4 percent of the Golden State’s economy while employing 6 percent of Californians. The mining industry in Texas, of which oil and gas extraction are the main part, generated 9.8 percent of Texas’ GDP in 2012 significantly less than manufacturing’s share of 14.5 percent—the Lone Star State’s economy is more diversified than its critics contend.

As for population and job growth, from 2000 to 2012, California grew 11.9 percent. Texas more than doubled California’s growth at 24.4 percent. The U.S. population expanded 11.3 percent in that time. Much of Texas’ growth came from domestic migration, while California lost residents to other states, Texas being the most common destination; this alone should cause pause to those who say that migration to Texas is driven by the weather. From January 2000 to April 2013, nonfarm payroll grew an anemic 2.6 percent in California compared to Texas’ 19.7 percent. U.S. job growth over that time was 3.6 percent.

If, as the critics opine, Texas is adding jobs simply because it is adding people, then the ratio of jobs added to population increased ought to be roughly the same there as in the U.S. as a whole. The data shows the opposite. Texas added one new job for every three people from 2000 to 2013, while the nation added one job for every seven people, meaning that Texas outperformed the U.S. job creation rate by more than two-to-one. In the same period, California added one job for every 11 new residents.

No amount of taxes will allow one worker to support 11 people indefinitely, no matter how robust the welfare state.

Taking into account official measures of regional price parity, Texas’ real personal income was about 4.6% higher than California’s in 2011. But this data reflects Texas’ far lower unemployment rate.

California’s wages, for those who had jobs, were higher. But wages are used to buy goods and services. Once California’s higher costs for housing, food, transportation and health care are considered, Texas workers end up with the advantage: $47,413 in cost of living adjusted average wages compared to California’s $41,680—before taxes.

The policy differences between the two biggest states result in vastly different outcomes for the most vulnerable of residents. The U.S. Census Bureau recently published a new, more comprehensive measure of state-by-state poverty that took into account cost of living as well as the value of government assistance. This survey showed that California had America’s highest poverty rate, 23.5 percent, with proportionately 42 percent more people living in poverty there than in Texas.

 

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I seriously hope he doesn't run in 2016. He wouldn't win anyway, but still. Him and Santorum are nothing but theocrats.

 

14th. 22 places higher than California.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2...W1p2K2SFHTAx9&cmp=clp-edweek&intc=EW-QC13-EWH

 

mod edit>>>please don't Those guys were great. I want that segment of the Republican base to have a strong voice. Man "Oops!" came out of nowhere. Now we know what to expect. I'm going to get the popcorn and tune in for all those Republican debates.



Rick can not go away!

 

Texas leads the nation in minimum wage jobs created under Gov. Good Hair & we are at the top of the list for most polluted states. saying the words "environment" & "jobs" in the same breath would be laughable if it wasn't so down right pathetic. I remember when our sate was as blue as the west Texas sky & Ann Richards [D[ handed off a balanced state budget to Dubyah who quickly squandered it & then Perry inherited it & doubled down on it sending it into the stratosphere. does all this Republican bungling sound kind of familiar?

 

Perry created cheap empty land and oil. Didn't you know that?

 

Lol, "principle" and "integrity"? Get out of here, he didn't even know what three programs he wanted to slash, and they were very significant programs that would have effected a lot of people. He is a sock puppet that is lucky he is governor of a state with all that special black gold. Kind of like how Sarah Palin was able to "create jobs" in Alaska. There is absolutely nothing going on in Rick Perry's head other than his puppet talking points.

 

Why can't he have the fortitude of an Anthony Weiner, or Eliot Spitzer?

 

You nailed it! Perry was just saying whatever he needed to say to get elected. He wanted to throw out a list of departments just so he could look tough. He had no intention of cutting anything. To bad he was so casual about it he didn't even bother to memorize which departments he was going to lie about.

 

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