Below the double line is a dialogue between Debbie, who is involved in Debra Medina’s campaign and Jill, a firm Rick Perry supporter. Debbie’s comments are in lavender, her personal thoughts in light teal and Jill’s comments are in black.
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I mentioned 11 objections I had to Perry and she replied to a few of them. You can scroll down and see how we started the conversation. It’s not terribly long. This might help some of you who have asked for talking points for Perry supporters. Feel free to use this or pass it along. I removed her surname and address out of consideration. Thanks Read and Julia for the input.
Thanks for your reply, Jill.
My replies are in color inserted below.
Debbie
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jill wrote:
Here’s how I look at it and this is strictly my personal opinion:
I’m not going to agree with every candidate I support completely. Heck, I don’t agree with my mother or husband 100% of the time but on the non-negotiable issues like pro-life, I do!
On the Gardasil and Transcorridor issues I call Perry a “Responsive Leader” because when he heard how we felt about them, he backed off. That is more than I can say for those in Washington or KBH!
There was an outraged uproar – by the legislature AND the people! Actually, Perry did NOT back off. The legislature passed a bill overriding his executive order. Perry didn’t even sign that into law and instead let it pass without signature. He lost all credibility in my eyes when he issued that mandate. Stepping out and mandating something that should be a private decision for parents and young women. He cannot consider himself pro-life after doing that. Girls died, girls were left permanently disabled, and sterilized. Young women have had repeated miscarriages since getting the shot. It’s really horrific. Research it for yourself. Did you get the shot?
The TTC is not dead, it’s been broken up and renamed, but the basic project is still in the works. Check out http://www.nascocorridor.com/ It is indeed alive and well. This is a corporation that is still working on it that has offices here in DFW.
I think a lot of Repubs thought the first bail out would help and it might have if it had stopped there but it didn’t and he has stood up since then against it.
The Willingham execution is something that we don’t have all the facts and he does. I’m not going to question him on that one, especially since a radical left organization supported by Susan Serrandan and the likes are the ones putting out the info on that.
If a liberal were to yell “fire” in a burning building, you wouldn’t listen to them? I read independent reports about the case and IMHO if there is ANY question, it should have been stayed. To execute a possibly innocent person is murder. It’s much better to let someone off who might be guilty than to execute an innocent person. The changes in appointments and investigators is really fishy.
I noticed you only addressed 4 of the 11 things I mentioned about him.
As far as KBH goes, we don’t need Washington coming to Texas but Texas going to Washington! She has not stood up for us enough on the Healthcare debate for her to earn a spot in Texas Legislature much less as Governor and essentially, she is pro-choice. She was the director of an organization (I think it was called Wish List) that was actively seeking pro-choice women to serve in government positions at one time and resigned just before she decided to run for Governor. Her stand is that she will not vote to fund abortions with federal money but would not vote down Roe v. Wade.
I don’t trust Kay or have any respect for her record.
Debra Medina to me is too radical. She advocates doing away with ALL federal laws and mandates – except for the ones she likes to use in her campaign speeches like border enforcement.
Clarification, ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL laws, there is a big difference. You do a grave disservice to misrepresent her position in such a way.
It’s easy to pick and choose which federal laws you will support when you are campaigning. She worked for Ron Paul who advocates legalizing prostitution and medical pot and a friend of mine asked her about that face to face and Medina’s answer was that it was something Texas Legislature would have to consider…
That was her answer because it is a STATE issue, not a Federal issue. And that is for the STATE legislature to decide. You are twisting again. One state may decide to legalize something another state wouldn’t – that’s perfectly within their jurisdiction. In fact I believe a couple of states have done so already. That doesn’t mean she is personally for or against something or another. That just means that she knows the Constitution better than most people. Even better than most people in office, I’m afraid.
To me its not what she said, but what she didn’t say…. Also wants to do away with property taxes! As a school board member I ran up to the front to ask her about that on Saturday….. I asked her how she intends to fund Public Ed then. She said she would more than double the sales tax.
Increasing the number of items taxed doesn’t mean doubling the sales tax. You must have misunderstood her. Go to Texas Public Policy Foundation (http://www.texaspolicy.com/) and read the report (http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2009-04-taxswap-laffer-posting.pdf) for yourself. You are an intern and you are a poli-sci major, that’s the kind of thing you should study. Not just repeat what you’d heard others say.
Well, first of all, that is unrealistic and won’t happen. Secondly, there is not enough retail sales to pay for the billions needed in public ed and in my opinion, then that would lead to a state tax and would kill TX economy. Or individuals would have to start paying tuition for public ed (right!). A small town like Van would get killed if the sales tax more than doubled! Lots of businesses would go under if that happens.
The study mentioned above gives all the details. It would actually lower the sales tax rate a little and increase our personal weath, jobs would be created because we would all have a little more money. The tax burden would be spread more fairly. (This is my opinion: Not to mention that a LOT of the public education budget goes for unnecessary administration costs that could easily be trimmed down. If money was kept locally and spent locally on necessary services it would go further. Why do we fund a Federal Department of Education? Reagan wanted to abolish it, too bad he didn’t. Do we really need the TEA? Can’t the local school boards take care of the local needs? Put schools back in the hands of parents and community leaders, take them out of the hands of buearucrats. You’ll save A LOT of money. Even Peggy Venable of AFP says that there is a lot of waste in the budget. end of my opinion.)
I was completely unimpressed with her and a more than a little irritated by her. She reminds me of a libertarian Obama. She throws a lot of language out there that Tea Party people want to hear and very little of it is realistic in nature.
She’s held these positions since long before the tea parties sprang up. But you have a point, she makes good sense and what she says reasonates with people who are fed up with the status quo, big government getting bigger and us getting poorer. And that group of people is getting larger everyday. Thankfully the American people are waking up.
She is great at getting everyone worked up but I don’t think she can win nor can she do half of what she is talking about, and if she did, it would throw the state into chaos.
She will win if people keep an open mind and do due diligence in researching the candidates. Any changes would be done incrementally. You are misrepresenting her again. And most of what she wants to do must be done by the legislature, but as governor she can champion the cause and actually let Texans know what is happening and what we should do about it, so we can put the needed pressure on our reps and senators. Instead of telling us how great everything is because we aren’t California –YET!!! We will be if we continue on the same path.
Did you know that socialized healthcare spending in Texas doubled in the last 8 or so years? Did you know that it eats up ONE THIRD of our budget? Did you know that our bonded debt has almost tripled in the last 10 years? Will we be able to make those credit card payments when the economy slows down even more and tax revenues decrease? We must get rid of unnecessary spending, cut the budget, cut the taxes, let people keep more of their money, they will invest, spend and expand their businesses and hire workers. That will be good for the economy! then tax revenues will start increasing again. It’s not rocket science.
We’ve had enough of politicians saying the “right things” but not following through. We’ve had enough of politicians who put their pocket book and connections before the interests of the people of Texas.
I would think a poli-sci major (Jill, above) would really study these things and study ALL positions and ALL candidates. You owe it to yourself, your children and your fellow Texans to make an INFORMED decision.
Hoping and praying you will,
Debbie