Politico on Rick Perry: ‘Tea party darling’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s star is rising among a new constituency - the anti-tax “tea party” crowd - in the wake of his recent endorsement of a Texas state House resolution affirming the state’s sovereignty.
The resolution urges that “all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed.”
The Republican governor’s public embrace of that language - a thinly veiled reference toward the conditions set by the Obama administration’s financial stimulus package - and his efforts to reject some of the stimulus funds have made him popular among the big government opponents who attended Wednesday’s “tea party” events across the nation.
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