Texans for Rick Perry

Facing record taxes, rich Californians consider moving to cheaper pastures

February 7, 2013

MercuryNews.com

Mike Rosenberg

Perry running ads in California encouraging businesses to move to Texas

February 4, 2013

The Daily Caller

Alexis Levinson

Texas Gov. Rick Perry praises charter schools, voucher plan before State Board of Education

February 1, 2013

The Associated Press

Will Weissert

Gov. Rick Perry told the State Board of Education on Friday that it’s time for Texas to increase the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide and embrace a voucher system that would let parents get their kids out of poor-performing public schools and into private ones.

South Texans Feeling Momentum for University Plan

January 30, 2013

The Texas Tribune

Reeve Hamilton

Standing in the Capitol rotunda on Wednesday, University of Texas at Brownsville President Juliet García talked about the fortuitous timing of coming to Austin one day after Gov. Rick Perry endorsed a plan to let South Texas have access to the Permanent University Fund.

Rick Perry Proposes Returning Unspent Taxes to Citizens

Jan. 30, 2013

Newsmax

Gov. Rick Perry used his State of the State address to call for amending the Texas Constitution to allow the state to return tax money it collects but doesn't spend back to its citizens.

Perry told a joint session of the Legislature that he has "never bought into the notion that if you collect more, you need to spend more."

"Today, I'm calling for a mechanism to be put in place so when we do bring in more than we need, we'll have the option of returning tax money directly to the people who paid it," the governor said Tuesday. "Currently, that's not something our constitution allows. We need to fix that."