The Texas governor and front-running GOP presidential candidate appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show today and addressed many issues — the GOP establishment’s criticisms of him, how he would handle the economic and military rise of China, the Obama administration’s smears of Texas educational record, how Romney’s Massachusetts health care plan is a “huge problem for him,” and several other issues. Take a listen.
If you haven’t read it yet, it’s worth a few minutes of your time to read Roger’s article about an ebook on how Perry and his team run campaigns. I read the book last night, which covered some of what I saw up close last year as Perry defeated Democrat Bill White. Perry’s team threw out the old political campaign rule book in 2010, much to the chagrin of a lot of consultants. They ran a campaign unlike any other we’ve ever seen, and unlike any that either Perry’s GOP rivals or President Obama’s campaign team seem to be prepared for.
Given the two people involved in this interview, I feel that it’s only fair that I do some disclosing: I worked for the Republican Party of Texas during most of Perry’s 2010 re-election run, and I was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show before working for the Texas GOP.
‘Romney’s Massachusetts health care plan is a “huge problem for him”….’
But not for the people of Massachusetts.
From the Frum Forum:
“The poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe found that 63 percent of Massachusetts residents support the 2006 health law, up 10 percentage points in the past two years. Just 21 percent said they were against the law.”
It’s tremendously entertaining to see Romney renounce his own successes – almost as entertaining as seeing Perry renounce statements in his 9-month-old book, “Fed Up.”
Of course residents in Massachusetts like it. Those who cannot afford the insurance premiums are subsidized, and that is likely a good percentage of those polled.
Massachusetts suffers some of the highest healthcare costs in the nation. Those subsidies, along with all the other mandates and regulations simply puts an upward pressure on cost. Everyone in Massachusetts suffers because of this, even those who get the subsides.
Trust that healthcare costs will necessarily skyrocket under Obamacare for the same reasons…
People love health care that other people have to pay for.
Canada is the classic example. Health care with other people’s money always polls well.
Fortunately for the advocates, most people polled have never been seriously ill, and many once who were, are deaad.
Perry renouncing statements from “Fed Up”? Would you care to elaborate? I mean, you’re just tossing that out there, with nothing to back it up . . .
Texas is known for its “seedy” politics and government! There is nothing more corrupted than the historical “Texas Establishment,” whom have controlled politicians and government of Texas….both parties, for so many decades!
Theres so much special interest corruption in Texas they simply list them by groups and exclude the energy for which they never want to discuss.
There are a variety of powerful interest groups in Texas that can be grouped into categories:
Business — include broad based associations like the Texas Association of Business; trade associations like Texas Automobile Dealers Association; and individual companies.
Professional – several have played dominant roles in Texas politics especially the Texas Medical Association and trial lawyer who have tried to influence tort reform laws.
Education – educational interests have played large roles in efforts to reform public school financing, and higher education lobbying efforts are particularly powerful.
Public Interest – try to protect consumers and the environment but do not have the money or clout of the business lobby.
Minority Interests – with single member, urban legislative districts the power of minorities has grown and so have their lobbying efforts. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) are powerful groups representing Hispanic interests in Texas. MALDEF an important legal case in 1989 that forced an overhaul of the public school financing in the state. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) has long fought for African American rights, mainly through the courts. Recently the Industrial Areas Foundation, a collection of church-supported community groups, has become an effective advocate for low-income minorities. Organized labor – has had less of an impact in Texas, a strong right-to-work state. Around 500,000 Texas belong to unions with the Communications Workers of America as well as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers among the largest.
Government lobbyists – many local governments have formed lobbying efforts to affect the budget process. These groups include the Texas Municipal League, the Texas Association of Counties, and the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.
Agriculture – is still an important part of the state’s economy and maintains a powerful presence in Austin. The most powerful group is the Texas Farm Bureau.
Religious – have influenced policy in Texas for many years. The Religious Right is another powerful interest group force, affecting policy in Texas and proving instrumental in the right-wing takeover of leadership positions in the Texas Republican Party in the 1994 elections. In 1996, social and religious conservatives took control of the Republican state convention.
Karl Rove seen Perry as a Texas political ‘player’ who would carry on the torch and not rock the boat. In Texas that means playing ball with the big boys of the special interest groups. Texans has a long history of party jumpers to advance their political ambitions as Perry did with the Bush/Rove political machine promised him. Having crapped on the Bush/Rove machine, Perry turned to a number of special interest groups with the Religious Group listed above as his chief alliance, Then came the TeaParty which was ultimately taken over by the old ChristianCoailition of the GOP. And now, we have Perry propped up by them as a Presidential candidate. His only alliances lay with whomever can best provide his his political ambitions…period! Then of course he is indebted to them only until……
Soooo, that means you’re voting for Mitt RINO-Romney? Or Ron Paul?
NO!!!! So far, it means I’m going fishing on election day for the first time since 1950….and one time each during Korea and Vietnam.
I read through your laundry list of interest groups in Texas, & my thought is – so what? These are the same groups you will find in any state or the national level. Perry had to work with the situation he found, & his movement among them shows me that he hasn’t been beholden to them & he does what needs to be done in order to accomplish the economic marvel there. If you want someone who bucks the establishment, check his 2010 campaign – his main rival in the primary was Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, & Perry walked away with it, despite her major backing by the Republican establishment (including Karl Rove, which goes a long way to explain his commentary, & the extended Bush family).
So, with this argument of yours, who exactly would you support? What standard do you apply to your candidates that is reasonable? Or do you just want to kvetch?
["If you want someone who bucks the establishment, check his 2010 campaign..."]
Great point! Now maybe go read another Brian Preston (Aug 27th) posting describing Perry running to Washington, palms up, for a pot-of-gold from the taxpayers of the other 49 states to pay for prisoners in his jails and prison system…labelling them as federal prisoners.
Prime example of a hypocrit?
MALDEF’s goals are not civil rights but to in effect recolonize America.
It is a racist, pro-lawbreaking organization born in sixties radicalism that has sought to force redistribution of money from ‘white’ schools in order to give it to ‘hispanic’ schools, whatever that means. MALDEF supports welfare for Hispanics, preferential hiring of minorities over whites, open borders with no enforcement, and redistricting specifically to exclude ‘white’ candidates. They continue to receive corporate welfare from AT&T, Exxon, GE, and dozens of other corporations which benefit from hiring illegals as cheap labor, in an era of 9-20% unemployment.