Texas governor News

Houston - The 2012 presidential election hasn't even been decided yet, but some Republicans are looking at running for the presidency four years from now. Texas Governor Rick Perry is one of those possible GOP presidential contenders.

Washington - Of all the horrible presidential choices the GOP has presented its followers over the decades, none has been more horrific than Texas Governor Rick Perry, a man who should now lead America toward a National Day of Prayer for Rick Perry.

Des Moines - Texas Governor Rick Perry, after suffering the first defeat of his political career Tuesday in Iowa, has changed course yet again, and is now headed for the South Carolina primary which takes place January 21.

Austin - Despite low poll numbers, Texas Governor Rick Perry can add a rising number to his credentials, the amount of money taxpayers are hit with in providing security for ongoing out-of-state trips in his quest to become president.

New York - Former US President Bill Clinton laid it on GOP climate change deniers in New York this week at the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual meeting held in NYC, telling the group of philanthropic leaders""we look like a joke” when engaging in denial.

Austin - Unemployment in Texas rose to 8.5 percent in August as the nation’s economic crisis has apparently come to the Lone Star State, and the statistic will offer plenty of ammunition as GOP presidential hopefuls renew attacks on the state’s brash governor.

Washington - Former Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty thrown his support behind Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination, claiming Romney is best qualified to deal with the America’s “severe economic predicament.”

Austin - As the state of Texas continues battling wildfires in a season extending for almost a year, Governor Rick Perry and GOP cohorts helped guide through drastic budget cuts to the Texas Forest Service (TFS), a wrong move which has come home to roost.

Columbia - Texas Governor Rick Perry once again has his sights set on federal agencies, and speaking on Monday in South Carolina told a town hall crowd that, if elected president, federal agencies “won’t know what hit ‘em.”

San Antonio - Speaking as the governor of Texas on Monday at the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Rick Perry said the US must take “the fight to the enemy”, before we are attacked at home, sounding eerily like his predecessor, George Junior.