Rick Perry

Education and professional path and policy

Wire of peg ladders, Rick Perry was born the March 4th 1950 in Paint Creek, in the west of Texas in the north of the town of Abilene.

Graduate in animal sciences, reserve officer with the rank of captain in the US Air Force, Rick Perry is member of the department of the education of Texas of 1978 with 1986.

In 1984, it is elected with the legislature of the state like representative of the district of Haskell. He is elected during 3 mandates.

Of 1990 with 1998, he is the Police chief with the Agriculture of the state of Texas.

In 1998, he becomes the lieutenant-governor of George W. Bush, governor of Texas since 1995, triumphantly re-elected in 1998.

According to the strategist Karl Rove, Rick Perry made party of the strategy of conquest of the old democratic bastion of Texas by the Republican party during the years 1990. The popularity of Perry in the west of Texas enabled him to increase there manpower and the voters of the Republican party whereas the senator Kay Bailey Hutchison undertook to politically lock the suburbs and the vote of the women. Electoral successes of George W. Bush in the center of the state finished doing in a few years of this state one of the fortified towns most preserving and republican of the country.

The governor Rick Perry

Rick Perry succeeded the Bush governor in 2000 whereas this one was elected with the White House and in 2002, it is easily re-elected vis-a-vis the democratic candidate Tony Sanchez.

The governor Rick Perry undertook to reform the health insurance of Texas and to return it more accessible in particular to the children in spite of the budgetary problems to arrive there.

He also increased the budget of education in particular to come to assistance of the children in school difficulties.

In 2002, Perry and his candidate for the post of lieutenant - governor, David Dewhurst, fixed their countryside on their rigidity vis-a-vis the criminals. Thus Perry opposed his veto to a bill prohibiting the execution of delayed mental.

Perry, tax conservative, opera also with budgetary cuts and falls of taxes while balancing the budget and by attracting the investors. However, these austerity measures were done in particular at the expense of the other programs of the governor, in particular in education.

The reforms of Perry met the hostility of many members of Parliament, including republicans in particular when those represented the poorest districts. Perry also ran up against the controller of the taxes of the state, republican the Carol Strayhorn on his reform of school finances which decided to arise against him like independent candidate to the post of governor of Texas.

Perry is also criticized by the conservatives of his party to have named liberal democrats and republicans with high responsibilities within the administration for Texas of which the first Secretary of State of Perry, Henry Cuellar, today a democratic representative at the federal level, or moderate judge Xavier Rodriguez, near to David Souter, a liberal republican judge of the Supreme court of the United States.

Perry is a partisan of safeguarding and extension of the rights of the states, in particular as regards environment. In December 2005, with a rate of approval of 46% (against 48% of negative opinions), it is the 37ème the most popular governor of the country (bearing SurveyUSA Survey on 600 residents of each state carried out from December 9th to 11th 2005. Margin of error of 4%).

Although disputed on his line which shows it not to control Texas as Bush did it, Perry is re-elected in November 2006 with 39% of the voices compared with 30% with the democratic candidate Chris Dell, 13% in populist Kinky Friedman and 18% with preserving the " Bushiste" Carole Strayhorn.

Married since 1982 in Anita Thigpen, the couple is relative of 2 children.

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