Rick Perry ramps up

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Texas governor invites GOP donors to December sessions to discuss 2016

 

By Kenneth P. Vogel11/28/14 6:51 PM EST

 

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is inviting hundreds of prominent Republican donors and policy experts to a series of gatherings next month that are intended to rebuild his damaged national brand and lay the foundation for a potential 2016 presidential campaign, fundraisers and organizers confirmed to POLITICO.

 

 

The small-group sessions kick off Tuesday and Wednesday in Austin with a pair of lunches and dinners held in the governor’s mansion wedged between policy briefings at the nearby office of Perry senior adviser Jeff Miller. In all, Perry’s team expects he will meet in person with more than 500 major donors and bundlers from around the country in December as well as a slew of operatives, Republican National Committee members and policy experts.

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Perry orders E-Verify, thinks Guard should stay put on border

By Jonathan Tilove Posted: 12:29 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014

 

Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday issued an executive order requiring all state agencies and contractors to use E-Verify to determine the legal status of employees. Perry also said that, like Sen. Dan Patrick, he thinks the National Guard ought to remain on the Texas-Mexico border past March.

 

“I would have liked for the guard to stay longer; we got what we could get,” Perry said at a Capitol press conference. Perry was referring to an agreement that was struck last month with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus, and ratified Monday by the Legislative Budget Board, that diverted $86 million in state funding to extend the so-called law enforcement surge along the border. The money will pay for extra Department of Public Safety troopers through the end of August. But it would only keep the Texas National Guard troops, deployed by Perry last summer as a “force multiplier,” through March.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/perry-orders-e-verify-thinks-guard-should-stay-put/njKz9/