Governor Perry, congratulations on being named the WORST PERSON IN TEXAS AMERICA THE WORLD on Monday Night for funneling $16 million in grants to companies that contributed directly to your campaign for re-election. (Picture)
On that occasion, I think it is time that you explain yourself to Texas voters.
And stop blaming the federal government for Texas’s problems.
Please make up your mind: Texas can secure the border by itself, but we need intervention from the federal government, which I despise. Texas has the right to secede BUT please, please I need that money from the government. Texas sovereignty forever, but God Bless the U.S.A.
Second, newspapers are starting to call into question about your no-show to the last two debates and your refusal to answer questions with editorial boards. Recently the Tyler Courier Times Telegraph published on the front page of their Sunday edition a scathing editorial about your decision to not engage with various editorial boards in a question-and-answer session and the continued refusal to debate Mayor Bill White.
In particular is this sentence:
Your position to not visit with the editorial boards of Texas newspapers may be astute politically, but it demonstrates a disregard for newspaper readers and voters across the state, who deserve to hear substance rather than silence.
And on the advice by your campaign to not meet with editorial boards and debate Mayor White because there is no need to because the polling numbers are in your favor, etc., etc.:
That's bad advice. It demonstrates a disconnect with the voters. Obviously, editorial board meetings in the past have not prevented you from being elected to office. You've never lost a race. Nor have debates hurt you politically. Even in a three-way primary in March, you won without a runoff, and you debated your opponents then.
41 newspapers in the state have run a new print ad asking demanding that you debate Mayor White. The Tyler Courier Times-Telegraph, which you called your favorite paper in the state and has given their endorsement in previous elections, has offered a solution that you meet with their editorial board and debate Mayor White.
Finally, if I was given three chances to be interviewed for a job, I would be at every one of them (not wearing cheap sunglasses, but as a sharp dressed man). I know that if I missed the first one, I would not be asked to attend the second one, let alone the third one.
Since debates for political office are the equivalent of a job interview and you have stiff-armed the electorate by refusing to answer questions to the press and the constant refusal to participate in the previous debates, then why should Texas voters re-hire you as the governor our once great state?
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