Rick Perry Shows his True Colors

Rick Perry Shows his True Colors

By

James Scott Trimm

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry has shown his true colors today by endorsing the Austin Establishment recruit who is challenging conservative hero and taxpayer champion Jonathan Stickland.  (In an earlier blog, I traced the money to show how Stickland’s challenger had been recruited by Strause Puppet Joe Pojman <Click Here>) Perry has demonstrated one of the many reasons that he has been rejected by conservatives, and why his recent presidential bid was never able to get off of the ground.

In 1987, Democrat legislator Perry voted for a $5.7 billion tax increase.  

In 1988 Perry supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries and even worked for Gore's campaign in Texas

In late 1989 Perry switched parties just in time to run for Texas Agriculture Commissioner… his campaign manager was none other than the infamous establishment crony Karl Rove!

In April 1993, Perry, while serving as Texas agriculture commissioner, expressed support for Hillarycare! 

In 2001 Rick Perry spearheaded and signed the Texas Dream Act, which gave state Illegal aliens in Texas the right to attend Texas Universities with “in state” tuition fees.  Thus giving a state subsidy to illegal aliens, and making it actually charging illegal aliens less that residents of other states to attend Texas Universities.

In February 2007, Perry issued an executive order mandating that Texas girls receive the HPV vaccine, whether they or their families liked it or not.  Fortunately in May 2007, the Texas Legislature passed a bill undoing this totalitarian order. The only reason Perry did not veto the bill, was because he said that he knew his veto would have been overruled.  He then but blamed the legislature for the deaths of future cancer victims.  Bu when it was convenient in his presidential campaign, he claimed the whole fiasco was a misjudgment.

Now that his political career is over, Rick Perry is showing his true colors by endorsing Austin Establishment candidates against true conservatives running for the Texas legislature.  His latest target is Jonathan Stickland, a man who has the most consistent conservative voting record in the Texas House!

Straus Puppet Joe Pojman was quick to cast his lot with Rick Perry:

Joe Pojman is the Executive Director of Texas Alliance for Life.  The claimed mission of this organization is to “protect innocent human life from conception through natural death through peaceful, legal means.” And there was a time when this organization was true to its mission, but today the organization exists largely to give cover to politicians that are weak on pro-life issues.  While they are a pro-life, or at least anti-abortion group to an extent, they also often fight conservatives on end of life issues.  For example Pojman has empowered the healthcare lobby and hospitals to end the life of a patient without family permission.

Pojman’s organization (TAL) has received massive amounts of money from Straus’s political arm, The Texas Leadership fund. State records show that TAL received over $50,000 from this Straus fund in 2014 ($50,000 on 2/25/14 and a second helping of $4,000 on 9/9/14).

Pojman routinely supports and endorses Straus's establishment cronies, apparently regardless of their pro-life voting record.  For example Pojman’s TAL endorsed and sent out mailers supporting Bennett Ratliff and J.D. Sheffield.  Yet Ratliff has said that he sees abortion as a right that a woman has and Sheffield voted with Democrats on numerous amendments intended to water down or kill HB 2.

At the same time Pojman has withheld endorsements from good conservative candidates with real pro-life voting records like our own Jonathan Stickland, as well as Matt Schaefer and Charles Perry.  In fact in the 2014 primary Pojman’s TAL supported Stickland’s opponent Andy Cargile, despite Sticklan’s perfect pro-life voting record (Yet Texas Right to Life, a legit Pro-Life Organization endorsed Stickland).

Perhaps the biggest insult to real pro-life conservatives came just a few days ago at the TAL annual banquet.  At this banquet Pojman and his organization actually gave Straus Lieutenant Charlie Geren an award for his “Courageous Defense of Life”.   Yet the Texas Right to Life Committee rated Geren at only 67 percent favorable in 2013, only 62 percent in 2011, only 63 percent in 2005 and In 2003, his second legislative session, Right to Life had rated Geren at a measly 17 percent.

This is the same Charlie Geren that recently went through the halls of the capitol, ripping down pro-life signs from the doors of real pro-life representatives.  Just a few months ago, when Planned Parenthood came to Austin to lobby for money to murder babies in the womb, Stickland put a sign (supplied by Texas Right to Life) on his office door identifying himself as a former fetus. This drew the anger of the Austin establishment and Straus lieutenant Charlie Geren made the news (Star-Telegram March 11, 2015) when he ripped the sign from Stickland’s door and stormed into his office yelling at Stickland’s staff.    

So support from Joe Pojman is not a good thing, and only demonstrates the Austin establishment is behind the effort to oust Stickland!

Jonathan Stickland responded to Perry's endorsement by saying:

"I've served my district for nearly 4 years now and have never tried to represent Austin insiders, only the conservatives in my District," he said in a written statement to the Tribune. "I'm proud to have their support in my re-election campaign."

I for one, am proud to be one of Jonathan Stickland’s constituents!