UPDATE! Texas Gov. mentions "Secession" at Austin tea party

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Texas Gov. mentions "Secession" at Austin tea party

Governor Rick Perry suggested Texans might get 'so fed up' they want to leave the union.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
AUDIO: Lone Star Gov. on Secession

By Jim Forsyth

(WOAI - San Antonio) Governor Rick Perry fired up the noontime crowd at the Tea Party rally in Austin today, suggesting at one point Texans might support seceding from the union, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Perry was one of many speakers at what was billed as the 'don't mess with Texas tea party.'

After the event was over, Perry told reporters that 'Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union.'

Perry quickly stressed he 'sees no reason why Texans should make such a move.'

During the rally, Perry touched on many of the points he made in his remarks in support of the so called 'sovereignty bill,' which would reaffirm the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which gives rights not specifically granted to the federal government 'to the states or to the people.

"They are overturning our rights, one after another," Perry said. "They are making choices that would leave our founding fathers scratching their heads."

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams said Washington DC needs to remember that the power thy have is 'on loan from the people.'

"My message to Washington is this: there wouldn't be a tea party if you weren't spending like it was a bachelor party," Williams said.

Perry said there will be more tea parties, and more support for the positions expressed by the more than 1,000 people in attendance in Austin.

"We are part of a movement that is growing, that is gaining strength, that is building momentum," Perry said.

Perry has repeatedly tried to distance himself from Washington DC as he prepares to meet U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in next year’s Republican primary for Governor. Perry's campaign staffers repeatedly refer to Hutchison as 'Kay Bailout.'

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WHOA!! Plot thickens!!

[SlowwHand]

Doc, they won't believe it until we're gone. It's really kind of funny.

[-Jrabbit]

Love it or leave it.

[Darius871]

WHOA!! Plot thickens!!

Wait, aren't you one of those NWO conspiracy kooks? What do you think of your newfound savior's being a Bilderberger?

[Q Classic]

Bye!

[SlowwHand]

It's a thing among the Texas citizens as a whole. Lee didn't want to secede, but he did.
Many didn't but they did. This time, should it come to pass, no ties to others.

[mrmitchell]

If Texas left the union, Mexico would conquer them within the week, and the average IQ of both the US and Mexico would improve a good ten points.

[Q Classic]

To be honest, if Texas secedes, I think the only thing I'd really miss is Rice University and maybe Texas-style chili. Of course, Rice University is nothing compared to Chicago, and the recipe for Texas-style chili can easily be obtained.

As far as the rights being overturned, didn't that happen largely over the past eight years?

[SlowwHand]

If Texas left the union, Mexico would conquer them within the week, and the average IQ of both the US and Mexico would improve a good ten points.

Thank you for providing an illustration of the idiocy that provokes us to leave in the first place.

[Q Classic]

It's not idiocy. I mean, I feel the same way if Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and the like, if they seceded. Heck, if Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, or Massachusetts left, I'd feel the same. I'd miss, respectively:

1. Maybe bragging rights for the land area and the Native Arctic Peoples.
2. Uh... potatoes?
3. Uh...
4. Um...
5. Er...
6. My godparents, who are in Tucson. I suppose I'd have to pull out the passport, but secession doesn't mean your internet would be depeered.
7. The Mexican/American fusion food.
8. Corn, I guess?
9. Maybe Mt. Rushmore, but I've never been all that interested in it.
10. Er...
11. Lobsters, maybe?
12. Huh... I guess Yale...
13. Mmm..
14. Harvard and MIT, I suppose. But academic institutions still have a tendency to work with each other.

Most of the states in the Union I don't really have strong feelings for. If they don't want to stay, they don't have to. Most of the stuff they have, I'm sure they can be obtained elsewhere. I hate to break it to you, Sloww, that while I may make fun of Texas, I'm really kinda non-commital on the state. I think it's nifty you have more counties than Georgia, and that you have the right to break up into four states, and you've got an interesting history. But, meh... if you feel that strongly about leaving, I'm not really all that interested in having you stay.

Besides, Texas is far too hot and humid for my tastes.

I'm not attached to that number 50. I'm attached to the principles and ideals of the United States, and if you guys aren't, well, I ain't stopping ya. Good luck trying to fashion a workable country quickly, though, when the benefits of scale from being part of a larger nation go away.

On the other hand, if you guys left, I wouldn't have to be reminded of the blight that is Houston.

You're welcome to try to change my mind about Texas. I encourage you to, to make me actually care if you actually do secede, rather than just have this blustering talk?

[SlowwHand]

Don't even try to throw Houston in my face. They're not my doing.

[Q Classic]

Don't even try to throw Houston in my face. They're not my doing.

Fair enough. Well, it could be worse. Houston could be, say, Detroit, Gary, Cleveland, or Washington, D.C.

[SlowwHand]

Very true.

[Q Classic]

But seriously, Sloww. Why should I care if Texas leaves?

[Guynemer]

And don't let the door hit you on your collective fat ass on your way out. [/obligatory]