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Rick Perry
If At First You Don't Secede ... Sue The EPA: Texas Guv Uses Climate-Gate Emails To Take On Feds
Zachary Roth | February 18, 2010, 11:41AM
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is suing the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to stop it from regulating global warming pollution. The centerpiece of his argument? Those leaked "Climate-Gate" emails.
Last year, the governor -- who faces a contested GOP primary race, which includes a Tea-Party-backed candidate who has lately caught fire -- raised the threat of seceding from the union. And on Tuesday, he opened a new front in his quest to tout his conservative bona fides.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (68) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Climate-Gate, Debra Medina, EPA, FreedomWorks, Global Warming, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rick Perry, Right-wing extremism
Cameron Todd Willingham
Evidence Builds That Perry's Office Pressured Panel On Willingham Probe
Zachary Roth | October 14, 2009, 10:11AM
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)
Things are looking worse and worse for Texas governor Rick Perry, accused of stifling a state panel's probe into that flawed arson investigation that may have led to the execution of an innocent man.
Sam Bassett, the former chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, has now told the Houston Chronicle that lawyers for Perry told him the case was inappropriate, and that the hiring of a nationally known fire expert was a "waste of state money."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (20) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (7)Topics: Cameron Todd Willingham, Craig Beyler, Death Penalty, Debra Medina, John Bradley, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rick Perry, Sam Bassett, Texas, Texas Forensic Science Commission
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