Rick Perry's Campaign

Rick Perry's Campaign

Introduction

James Richard "Rick" Perry is an American politician of the Republican Party since December 2000 and Governor of the State of Texas. On 13 August 2011, Perry was officially announced his candidacy for election to the presidential office.

Political career

House of Representatives from Texas

In 1984, Perry was elected the first time into the House of Representatives from Texas. He was - at that time for the Democratic Party on the 64th - Constituency to which Haskell County with included. He was re-elected two more times, always as a member of the Democratic Party, and belonged to the House of Representatives from Texas for a total of 6 years. During his time in the House (of Texas), he was a member of the Committee on Appropriations (Budget Committee) and the Calendars Committee (Rules Committee) .

Change to the Republican Party

In September 1989, towards the end of his third term in the House of Representatives from Texas, he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.

Agriculture Commissioner

Perry chose not to contest for the fourth time for a seat in the House of Representatives, but instead ran in 1990, for the office of agriculture commissioner (e.g.: Commissioner for the agricultural sector) . He replaced the Democrat James Allen "Jim" Hightower from the office who had been in power since 1983, and won, not least because entangled during the election campaign three subordinates of Hightower in a corruption scandal were. At the next election in 1994, he was elected with 61.9 percent of the votes in the office and practiced it until 1998.

Governor of Texas

In 1998, Perry chose a third time to run for the office of agriculture commissioner to compete, but for the office of the lieutenant governor to run. He won just over the democratic opposition candidate - his former college friend John Sharp - and was (January 1999 - December 2000) the second-highest official in Texas, just behind Governor George W. Bush. When Bush in November 2000 became the 43rd President of the United States and was elected to the White House, moving to Washington, Perry in December 2000, was automatically appointed the governor of Texas. The elections in 2002, 2006 and 2010 confirmed him in office. As the first governor of Texas, even Perry was re-elected in 2010 for the second time.

Governor Rick Perry succeeded George W. Bush in 2000 when he was elected to the White House. In 2002, he was easily re-elected over the competing candidate he faced in Democrat Tony Sanchez .

Rick Perry set out to reform the health insurance system for the state of Texas and make it more accessible, especially for the children despite the budget problems to get there. He also made efforts to increases the budget for education, particularly to help children with learning difficulties and allowed a certain category of illegal immigrants to continue their higher education in Texas (Texas DREAM Act). On abortion, he introduced legislation in Texas requiring any physician of the state to show the ultrasound ...