Senior Gingrich aides resign campaign en masse

CENTRAL TEXAN RIGHT HERE!!!!!

first watch this……….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biy_EdGW1Fg
so he doesn’t even respect a guy like ron paul(from lake jackson district with is west of the “elitist” capital of austin)

next – bilderberg – O_o WTF!?!?

next -trans-texas corridor – he doesn’t raise taxes my a$$ – that is a tax, plain and simple

next – mandated HPV vaccinations for 12yr old girls – who the hell is he to tell MY DAUGHTER that she has to have a vaccination that only works on 3 of the more than 70 types of strains out there in order to go to schoolb- what a guy to think of my daughters health – THATS MY JOB!!!(called teaching abstinence)

and here are HIS tax hikes (from politifact.com)

* House Bill 3667, which Perry signed into law on June 16, 2001, enacting a 2 percent tax on the retail sale of fireworks to help fund a rural volunteer fire department insurance fund. The new levy was projected to generate $848,000 over the next two years; it ended up raising about $1.4 million in that period.

* Senate Bill 5, which Perry signed into law June 15, 2001, creating the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Fund as part of an effort to help reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, which are air pollutants. Revenue for the fund was generated through “several new charges,” including a tax of 1 percent on the purchase or rental of diesel equipment.

* House Bill 1365, signed by the governor on June 22, 2003, made tweaks in the emissions reduction fund to bring in more money. With the changes, the report says, the impact to the fund was projected to be $234.9 million in 2004-05.

* In 2004, before a special legislative session, Perry laid out a plan to cut local school property taxes while generating new revenue in several ways, including through a $1-a-pack increase in cigarette taxes, a fee on admissions to topless bars, a statewide business property tax, and the closure of loopholes enabling some taxpayers to avoid the state’s franchise and motor vehicle taxes, according to an April 2004 press release from his office. The plan went nowhere.

Lawmakers returned to the school finance topic in a 2006 special session, engineering a tax overhaul that reduced local school property taxes. To help districts offset the loss of revenue, the Legislature revamped the franchise tax, increased the cigarette tax and modified how the state taxes used-car purchases. Perry signed the overhaul legislation into law in May 2006.

The $1-a-pack increase in cigarette taxes proposed by Perry in 2004 also was part of the 2006 tax changes; the $1.41-a-pack tax took effect in 2007. These increases alone generated $707 million in fiscal 2007 and $908 million in fiscal 2008. Tobacco users were hit again in 2009, when the Legislature decided to tax smokeless tobacco on weight rather than price.(just so you know, where i live, cigarettes are over $7 a pack now)

I don’t know how anyone backs this guys. YES, he was WAY better than WHITE by LEAPS AND BOUNDS, but that doesn’t mean he is good for the country. a raised tax(tobacco) on one thing and lowered on another(property) isn’t tax neutrality. if someone from texas can prove this is a good thing(raising taxes on one and lowering on another is good), then we are sooooooooo screwed.

and persephone, if you need me to find more, i will be more than happy to.

I am from the Houston area and have a high regard for Perry. He is an excellent governor. The job situation is good here and that is a definite plus for him. Every politician will do some things you don’t like – that is life. He is an honorable man – Go Perry!