Texas Governor Perry To Skip DeMint Presidential Candidate Forum

[maddezmom]

Source: WSPA.com

Monday 10:18 a.m. Update

Texas Governor Rick Perry won't attend the Palmetto Freedom Forum as scheduled on Monday.

The governor's press office confirms Perry will return to Texas following a town hall meeting on the coast to address wildfire problems in Texas.

Perry was scheduled to attend Senator Jim DeMint's forum of Republican presidential contenders in Columbia Monday afternoon.



Read more: http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/sep/04/3/presidential-candidate-forum-set-monday-columbia-ar-2363211/

[peacebird]

1. Perry is breathing a huge sigh of relief & thinking wildfires make me look presidential!

[The Philosopher]

2. One debate down...

I wonder how many excuses he's got planned to miss the other ones?

[hlthe2b]

3. Never underestimate the capacity of a Texas governor.....

to create new disasters..... :mad:

[StopTheNeoCons]

4. He's coming home to then beg President Obama for help, funds

what a loser, what a putz, what a useless bag of shit is perry.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Now he wants special federal Welfare for his state

typical Republicon

[durablend]

7. Shouldn't Texas secede

So he can ask for foreign aid?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. More than a 1,000 Texans lost their homes yesterday, and more are losing theirs as I type.

Where was Perry? Oh, yeah, he was in South Carolina talking about how great a shape Texas is in thanks to him.

[Moonwalk]

8. So what cuts will the Republicans make to pay for helping Texas?

Just wondering'....

[Javaman]

10. Probably to emergency fire services. nt

[dipsydoodle]

9. Texas wildfires prompt Rick Perry to return home

Firefighters in drought-striken Texas are struggling to contain a 16-mile-wide (26-km) wildfire that has destroyed at least 300 homes.

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"It's a monster, and it's zero percent contained," said Jan Amen of the Texas Forest Service.

Another fire in East Texas killed a 20-year-old woman and her baby daughter on Sunday before it was extinguished.

Hundreds of homes have had to be evacuated because of the latest fire, which is about 30 miles south-east of Austin and moving away from the state capital.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14793914