On the lunch menu at Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign appearance at a Texarkana barbecue joint: Jobs, jobs and same-sex marriage.
The friendly crowd at Clem Mikeska's Bar-B-Q ate it up. Later on, someone in the audience who wanted to know if the governor of Texas wants to be the next president of the United States. "No," Perry said. "I have no intention to go to Washington, D.C., except maybe to go to a museum, like the Smithsonian." Social issues might be in the back seat, but they're still in the car: "There is still a land of opportunity, friends — it's called Texas," Perry said. "We're creating more jobs than any other state in the nation. ... Would you rather live in a state like this, or in a state where a man can marry a man?"
Some data per the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics: In July, the largest non-farm job increases were reported in, among other states, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, where marriage equality is the law. Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont, where marriage equality is also legal, boast unemployment rates almost one-third less than Texas.
Via ANDY
Facts are stubborn things. Ricky Perry: All hat and nooo cattle
Posted by: Bill | 31 August 2010 at 14:51
Pay Ricky no mind....I don't! He talks a good game but old spends more money on hair coloring and perms. He lives in a lavious maniaon paid by the People of Texas because some white burned down his temporary housing. There are still no leads on who done it but had cameras and troopers on site. Let me stop because I cause a red flag!
Posted by: Cedric | 31 August 2010 at 17:04
Perry is a closet case. Seriously! My friend in Austin knows men with whom Perry has had sex. But Perry is shrewd -- he only screws around with guys who are as closeted as he is. Perry knows the guys won't expose him because they don't want to out themselves in the process.
Posted by: harlemboy | 31 August 2010 at 20:31
Please, let Governor Perry lead Texas back out of the United States.
Posted by: Jim | 01 September 2010 at 01:15
Chile, don't y'all pay Governor Good Hair no mind. I live in the Lone Star and, despite us not being able to get married, "the kids" still pull all the big strings here in Houston and up in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Posted by: elektrick.red | 01 September 2010 at 11:17
Not only that a gay bar is steps away from the Capitol and the Governor's mansion.
Posted by: Cedric | 01 September 2010 at 11:36
The ... crowd at Clem Mikeska's [yelled], Bar-B-Q! (Barbara Be Quiet!)
Posted by: Honut Sinti | 03 September 2010 at 17:15