Rick Perry
Summary
James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician. He is the 47th and incumbent Governor of Texas, having held the office since 2000. He is a member of the Republican Party.Elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998, he assumed office as governor in December 2000 when Governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to two full terms in 2002 and 2006, and is now running for an unprecedented third full term.Perry served as chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 2008, succeeding Sonny Perdue of Georgia. He now serves as Finance Chair.Perry holds all records for Texas gubernatorial tenure, having broken both Allan Shivers' consecutive service record of 7 1/2 years in June 2008 and Bill Clements' total service record of eight years (over two non-consecutive terms) in December 2008.
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CNN’s unedited epithets raise questions about when to use unfiltered hate speech
When Tulsa police arrested two men Sunday in connection with a shooting spree that targeted African-Americans, much of the media drew attention to a racist Facebook post apparently written by one of the suspects. But CNN’s unusually explicit… Read more.
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Signs point to 2014 gubernatorial run for Rick Perry
Will Rick Perry run for Texas governor in 2014 and continue his streak as the longest-serving current governor? All signs suggest a re-election bid but a decision will come “at the appropriate time,” a Perry spokeswoman said today. “The governor’s conservative policy development, job creation. . .
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Ludicrous, hysterical, brilliant – the top Republican campaign adverts | Ana Marie Cox
Obamaville is the latest incredible ad in a presidential campaign season that has been notable for its negativity.
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Apple to get huge tax breaks for Texas campus
Apple is negotiating for further incentives related to the $304 million campus is is planning to build in Austin, Texas.
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How BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski mines the Internet for video gold
In a Dickens novel, Andrew Kaczynski would be The Ghost of Statements Past — haunting political candidates with visions of years-old contradictions, hypocrisy or embarrassment they would rather forget.
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Ann Coulter Criticizes Sarah Palin
Yesterday, while in a deep and ethereal reverie about "Game Change: The Movie," which was based on "Game Change: The Book," which was based on "Game Change: The Catchphrase," Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen surmised that Sarah Palin had personally ruined politics forever. By his reckoning, the emergence of Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry -- really, all of the candidates in the GOP race not named "Mitt Romney" -- was evidence of the fact that the GOP had decided to embrace Palinesque qualities in their candidates.
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SXSW Roundup: Analyzing the Social Media Chatter
The South by Southwest Interactive conference is over, but a few top brands and companies left a considerable trail of social media chatter in their wake.
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'Game Change' Has Convinced Richard Cohen That Democrats Will Soon Succumb To Palinism
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen evidently felt compelled to write something about the movie "Game Change" because that was the big shiny thing over which everyone inside the Beltway was cooing.
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WATCH: Maddow Defends Controversial Cartoon
Rachel Maddow defended the controversial "Doonesbury" comic strip making headlines this week, and referred to some newspapers as "cowardly" for deciding not to publish it.
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GOP primaries attack ad highlights: accentuating the negative, part 1 | Ana Marie Cox
With Super Pac funding to the fore, this Republican presidential contest has seen plenty of attack ads. But have they worked?.
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