Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

mamabearCali wrote:Kreutz just because someone is from TX does not mean they are the same person. My husband is from NY (long island) and he is more conservative than even I am, and is a huge fan of 2nd amendment--not exactly NY style. So judge a man based on who he is and his own record, not who else was from that state. However, I would vote for Bob the tomato or Larry the cucumber rather than see Obama get another 4 years.

mamabearCali wrote:Why chance it again--because I like his stances---see my post above. He is not W and has parted with W very often especially on financial matters. Ron Paul may be new to you--but I watched him last time around in the 2008 election season. I like Ron Paul, but he scares me a little bit. That said I would take him over Obama. I would take a bit of a rootin tootin "Don't mess with Texas" cowboy over the indecisive, inept, yet amazingly arrogant leadership we have coming right now from Washington.

In general New Yorkers are distrustful of Texans and vice versa. They can get along and even learn to trust each other as I am from San Antonio TX and my husband is from Suffolk county (as you are)--E. Setuaket.

Rick Perry is being touted as the 'hard line conservative' candidate, more conservative than Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman but more electable than conservative stalwarts Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann. But what is Rick Perry's record like as Governor of Texas?


Rick Perry supports in-state tuition subsidies for illegal aliens. Referring to the illegal aliens attempting to qualify for the in-state tuition subsidies, Perry calls them “young Texans” and says that requiring them to pay full tuition like the American citizens from other states and foreign born students with legal student visas “is not what America has always been about.” In 2001, Perry signed the Texas DREAM Act, which gave in-state tuition subsidies to illegal aliens who had graduated high school in Texas (already costing money to the Texas education system) or had a GED. Perry still stands behind and supports the subsidies. The in-state subsidy costs Texas taxpayers about $12,000 per student per year at the University of Texas.



In 2001, during a border summit, Perry said “We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, "We don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there. And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. “ Perry added that, “the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede [education is the future, and yes, we can].”



Rick Perry also supports granting citizenship to children of illegal aliens, and opposes legislation to change the current policy which grants citizenship to any child of an illegal alien who sneaks across the border to give birth.



Rick Perry also supported the NAFTA Superhighway, officially known as the 'Trans Texas Corridor'. The main purpose of the NAFTA Superhighway was to provide a corridor to import Chinese goods via Mexican ports. Although some defend this importation as 'free market', the means they planned to use to build this government funded transportation corridor were anything but free market. Rick Perry signed into effect a bill granting his government increased powers to use 'eminent domain' to seize land from private owners to build the NAFTA Superhighway.



In addition to allowing the Chinese government oil company CNOOC to lease a huge section of mineral rights in Texas, Rick Perry proudly supports a Chinese company which is regarded by many as a threat to national security. His website proudly displays a press release of him cutting the ribbon at the new U.S. Headquarters of Huawei, a company under the control of the Chinese military and part of its spying network. Huawei manufactures telecommunications equipment, and allowing the Chinese military access to America's telecommunications infrastructure is a certain invitation to allow spying.



Huawei has previously supplied technology to Saddam Hussein's Iraq which they used in their anti-aircraft systems which were attempting to shoot down American planes. A decade ago, Huawei was supplying telecommunications equipment to the Taliban, who at the time were in control of Afghanistan. Huawei also openly supplies advanced telecommunications equipment to Iran.



Like George Bush, who he followed as Texas governor, Rick Perry might be from a border state but doesn't believe in borders. America under Rick Perry would be open to both illegal immigration invasion and spying by Chinese companies who sell vital technology to America's enemies. Rick Perry was even willing to seize land from Texas landowners to build a highway to assist them. Have conservatives learned nothing from 8 years of George W. Bush?