liberal-life:

(1) Perry allowed the execution of a likely innocent man, then impeded an investigation into the matter.

(2) Perry wants to repeal the 16th and 17th amendments, ending direct election of U.S. senators and the Federal income tax.

(3) Perry proposed letting states drop out of social security and medicaid.

(4) Texas is the country’s biggest polluter, but Perry sued the federal government for disapproving of the state’s air quality standards.

(5) Perry designated as “emergency legislation” a bill requiring all women seeking abortions to have sonograms first.

(6) Perry gutted childcare services, even as Texas childhood poverty hit 25%

(7) Perry was a strong supporter of Texas’s anti-sodomy laws.

(8) Perry is a stimulus hypocrite who loudly criticized federal recovery money, but used it to balance his state’s budget.

(9) Perry said that texas might have to secede from the United States

(10) Despite having the worst uninsured rate in the country, Perry claims that Texas has “the best health care in the country.

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motherjones:

Texas’ Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice, Don Clemmer, later testified that his office didn’t have the resources to investigate allegations of sexual abuse at a TYC facility in Ward County because at the time the local agent was busy investigating charges of voter fraud by a 68-year-old Hispanic woman.

Your morning must-read: Why did Rick Perry wait six years to clean up the culture of child rape at Texas youth detention and rehabilitation centers?