Excellent article and I wish people could understand the Texas Illegal Immigration problem and get it right!
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Rick Perry’s Immigration Problem vs. Mitt Romney’s Healthcare Problem
Texas did what Texas did because Washington failed to do anything.The difference between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry is that Perry never said that what Texas did on immigration is the right fit for every state.
Mitt Romney, however, came up with a healthcare plan that may be the only political position in modern American history on which he hasn’t stood on both sides, continues to defend it despite Massachusetts now being weighed down by a costly, dysfunctional healthcare system bankrupting the state, and had the audacity to say it was a model for the nation until after Obamacare passed. Then he got rid of that claim from his book.
You may not like Rick Perry’s immigration position, but he’s never said, nor would he ever say that it should be national policy.
So all the talk today is that somewhere around 1983 Mr Perry and his dad started leasing a West Texas hunting ranch that had the "N" word written on a rock at the gate to the place.
It seems there is question as to when they painted over the offensive word.
This is worth watching. If it can be proven that Perry didnt do anything about this for a long time, it might be church for him.
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So all the talk today is that somewhere around 1983 Mr Perry and his dad started leasing a West Texas hunting ranch that had the "N" word written on a rock at the gate to the place.
It seems there is question as to when they painted over the offensive word.
This is worth watching. If it can be proven that Perry didnt do anything about this for a long time, it might be church for him.
True. They would have to provide photos which haven't surfaced yet.
The Perry camp is saying:
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“A number of claims made in the story are incorrect, inconsistent, and anonymous, including the implication that Rick Perry brought groups to the lease when the word on the rock was still visible. The one consistent fact in the story is that the word on a rock was painted over and obscured many years ago.
“Gov. Perry and his family never owned, controlled or managed the property referenced in the Washington Post story. The 42,000-acre ranch is owned by the Hendricks Home for Children, a West Texas charity. http://www.hendrickhome.com/
“Perry’s father painted over offensive language on a rock soon after leasing the 1,000-acre parcel in the early 1980s. When Gov. Perry was party to the hunting lease from 1997 to 2007, the property was described as northern pasture. He has not been to the property since 2006.
“In 1991, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to rename old, offensive place names.”
This article is also very informative and factual about the in-state tuition in Texas.
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Defending the Defensible Texas’s college tuition policy is not the abomination Mitt Romney claims.
To understand Perry’s law, you have to go back to the 1982 case Plyler v. Doe. In it the Supreme Court struck down a 1975 Texas statute which prohibited local school districts from spending money on the children of illegal residents. The effect of the verdict was to create a national mandate entitling all children in America, regardless of their immigration status, to a K-12 public education.
As Plyler was being contested, the inflow of illegal immigrants to the United States was ramping up, eventually leading to the 1986 amnesty signed by President Reagan that legalized 2.7 million of them.
So all the talk today is that somewhere around 1983 Mr Perry and his dad started leasing a West Texas hunting ranch that had the "N" word written on a rock at the gate to the place.
It seems there is question as to when they painted over the offensive word.
This is worth watching. If it can be proven that Perry didnt do anything about this for a long time, it might be church for him.
My biggest problem is that many are finding "anonymous sources" to be credible.
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There is no story behind the headline.
The article itself reveals that the offensive name of the camp, painted on a rock near the entrance, was painted over by Perry’s father soon after they started hunting at the camp in the early 1980s.
But WaPo made sure to put the offensive word near the top of the article, so that the charge would stick in readers’ memories. It’s not until later in the article that they state the facts. And even then, WaPo cites anonymous sources discounting the precise years in which it was painted over, but never the fact that it was painted over.
A statement issued by the Perry campaign denies that his family ever owned the property, confirms that the rock was painted over in the early 1980s, and that the name officially was changed by the State of Texas in 1991.
I have warned people about the upcoming election, and not to take much comfort in the current polling.
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