Rick Perry’s wife loves nothing more than to get the hell away from Rick Perry and the whole foul state of Texas, which is why she is constantly jetting off to Amsterdam, Madrid and New York. And that costs Texans money, as their state burns and everyone is unemployed and the governor will do nothing but make his corporate rape doctors give cancer sex to teen-aged girls from church. Along with a “family vacation” to the Bahamas apparently taken with Rick (to go to strip clubs), Anita has burned through $294,000 in “security” travel costs paid for with the remaining nickels in the Texas general fund.
From the Houston Chronicle via ThinkProgress:
During the last slash-and-burn legislative session, presidential contender and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) approved draconian budget cuts for everything from education to Medicare. But one area where he didn’t mind being extravagant with taxpayer money was financing family vacations, tours to promote his book, and campaign events.
The Houston Chronicle reports that Perry used at least $294,000 of Texas taxpayers’ money for numerous personal trips, and has no plans to reimburse the state
When Ron Paul is president of the Republic of Texas, he’s gonna stuff the whole Perry family in a Mexican blimp and then use Texas to set it on fire! [Houston Chronicle]
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Rick Perry is married? To a woman?
Notice that Amsterdam, Madrid and New York are all places where gay marriage is legal. I wonder if Perry took Andrew Breitbart along with him to help "carry his luggage"?
Lock and load, Sexysmurf, Breitbart is gunning for you.
SexySmurf crossed that line! Everybody scatter!
You best start praying to St. Riley of Wagaman to intervene on your behalf, for only his thigh is sufficiently charmed to calm the savage breitbart breast… tesses.
If you have a beard, you don't have to shave.
Elton John, Marcus Bachman, and Freddie Mercury also married women.
Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, Oscar Wilde, Governor McGravey, Jared French and Lincoln Kirstein all married women too. But regardless of this, I've been hearing people rumor that Perry is gay for almost 6 years now, and I don't buy it. Marcus Bachmann…something is going on. I mean…I'm sorry Marcus, but…er…but someone tell me why it is the meme to make gay jokes abut Perry. Is there one good story anywhere? He doesn't seem gay to me.
I agree, doesn't set off my 'dar at all. Plus, hello, ewww!
It's the luscious, thick hair he's so proud of and the Marlboro Man posing that he does every time he's in casual clothes. The Marlboro Man, however, just screams NYC gay bathhouse to most people from the East Coast. But really, aren't we used to those Texas Testosterone wide stances after eight years of W. with his codpiece and the brush-cutting photo-ops?
Once he get the nomination, a reporter will be sent to Austin and you'll probably get a little more meat on this bone (so to speak).
Marriage of convenience?
Are we sure she's a woman? Anybody willing to take one for the team and check?
In the same manner as Marcus Bachmann, I suppose he is.
Beard.
Beard libel!
In the GOP's twisted world: it is good for me but not for you.
Wait, he's married to Michelle Obama?
Perry/Palin 2012! It's the grifting, stupid!
When you're Rick Perry, austerity is for other people.
When you're <insert name of damn near any gooper>, <insert any unpleasant reality> is for other people.
I assume the “security” detail is there to protect the general public from the Perry family.
Exactly. What if Rick mistakes a member of the public for a coyote?
Someone has to find out where those bullets land when Perry goes all Yosemite Sam.
Kneel and prepare to worship the Koch, Lil Rickie
Um You might want to rethink this ThinkProgress. I'm pretty sure it was Medicaid. Not that Perry wouldn't deny the olds in Tejass health care if he could.
Of course, Perry didn't mention that these "family vacations" included overnight jaunts at the local gay brothel.
Yes. Junkets to shill a book about being FEDUP with gubbmint spending, while spending gubbmint money, to hawk a book about the gubbmint spending money…PEW PEW! *Shoots coyote in face* Rabbit Hole, here we go!
I know, I know their logic never fails to boggle the mind.
Don't worry — I'm sure the diligent teabaggers who bitch about the Obamas' expensive vacations will be all over this misappropriation of your tax dollars, just like they gave Nikki Haley hell for her junket to Paris a few weeks ago.
In 3..2..1..1/2..1/4..1/8..1/16…infinitum
"asymptotically approaches zero."
Sorry, the math nerd deep within occasionally makes a jailbreak.
Judging from the trolls below, no such luck…
Ooh ooh ooh, we have new trolls? Are they any good?
The governor of the Palmetto State has all kinds of reasons to visit Paris. She can't think of any right now but there'll be press release very soon…sometime after everyone's forgotten about this. You can't make this shit up on demand, you know. It takes time and creativity. Let's see…Paris couturiers seek fabrics from SC mills…no, not unless they start making their spring frocks out of no-iron bedsheets…gimme some time, damnit!
She was getting information about innovations in the popular French Fry and French Toast industries.
(What? Look this is South Carolina we're talking about. Of course they'll buy it.)
But they'll need to change the story to she went to Freedom to get info on Freedom Fry and Freedom Toast.
And didn't get any Freedom dick.
I call BS. There is no way Nimrata RandyWaah goes ANYwhere and doesn't get Freedom Dick.
I'm sure this will get a full hearing on FOX News just like Obama's vacations. I expect at least two weeks of coverage. If not, it must not be a story.
In 3..2..1..1/2..1/4..1/8..1/16…infinitum .
Oh, they were baying about this on the Chronicle's comment board, mostly saying that Rick's vacays were peanuts compared to Barry's $200 million taxpayer-funded sexytime party to India which… oh, wait.
I guess when they told Rick that he would have paid vacations in this job, he heard it as "paid-for" vacations.
Wait, I thought Rick Perry was a real man who carried a real gun like any real 'bagger would. What the hell is it with this pansy security details. Is he going Breitbart on us?
Vacations are people, my friend.
$294,000 would not even cover the cost of one (union) teacher or half a fire-fighter, not that Texas needs those jobs.
And yet theTexicans seem happy to send him away.
The problem is he keeps coming back.
Why, Wonkette, you seem to be implying Gov. Perry has some kind of double standard.
…implying Gov. Perry has some kind of double standard.
What?! That's absurd. No one implied he had standards, be they single, double, or in any other way existent.
Never would have guessed that the Houston Chronicle would be the instigator of another class warfare. Isn't the crime of lèse majesté a capital offense in Texas?
With all the jerbs he created the taxpayers are just thanking him.
Then they should hurl greasy fast food at him. They can get that fairly easily, at their jerbs.
FRY LIBEL!
or FRYBEL!
Since he's always carrying a weapon, even while jogging, why does he need security?
Did these trips include "hiking the Appalachian Trail?"
Or "Diving in Key West"?
$294,000? Why, that's barely enough to keep a Job-creator's family alive.
I must be hopelessly naive and misinformed, but isn't it illegal to use taxpayer money to pay for campaigning?
HHAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA.
You're adorable.
Laws are for non-Republicans. Silly.
Laws, austerity and shame. These things are for others.
These things are for
otherssuckers.Fixed.
Perfectly understandable; wouldn't want anything to happen to his beard.
Perrys went on a family weed trip to Amsterdam?
That is so typical of American ignorance.
As if all there is in Amsterdam is weed.
There's also hookers.
And the lovely canals, where you can conveniently dispose of the hooker you got high and murdered.
You made me spit on my monitor!
Hey, Perry's just using these jaunts to 'couth up' his family! When he becomes President it wouldn't look good for his wife to be gobbling down food like Per Se was the Golden Corral. A certain amount of culture shock happens when we'uns of the Lone Star State go to the big city. Travel can broaden your perspectives and teach the little things such as 'waiter, please' is more acceptable than 'hey, niglict'!
I'd gladly support the use of my tax money to send Perry and family on a permanent vacation, preferably off the planet.
Wait, did you guys mean Jim Perry?
a/k/a Perry ("Very") White?
Maybe it wasn't really a vacation, but one of those working vacations. Like maybe Texas was about to execute an innocent prisoner and Perry was the guy's last recourse and so he just had to go out-of-state to prevent the appearance of fairness. If Perry was seen as not wanting to kill someone that could just ruin his reputation.
It costs a lot to protect Jim Perry from the hordes of ravenous liberals trying to abort him. Plus, Obamacare.
NOBAMA SPENT $200 MILLION TO GO TO INDIA SO SHUT UP LIBERALZ!!!111!!!
A Day. $200 mill a day.
I had "friends" send me that one. I wanted to scream. How some of that "Obama does this and that" crap is believe and forwarded…I will never understand.
The tubez of the internets never lie, dontcha know.
$294,000 on travel? Doesn't he need that money to feed his family?
Has Rick gone so Sun King on Texas that the third estate is going all Marie Antoinette on his wife's ass? That might be a sign to tone crap down. But then, I know my history.
Does this mean lesbian sex scandals about the Texas First Lady are coming next?
Democrats and the Chronicle are quick to forget about Obama spending $200 million a day for himself, staff, friends, and half of Wall Street for that conference/vacation to India. I know, anything to trash Perry will do.
Perry has previously said the state should pay those costs because he's "promoting Texas no matter where I go."
Heck, cough up $300K and *I'll* "promote" Texas…
Can we "promote" them to Nation/State?
I was wondering what Anita looked like and I came across this picture. Apparently the Perrys have a kissing disorder. http://newsrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/an...
Hell, Anita was much more fetching when she was younger.
Osculate FAIL.
With aim like that, I don't want him anywhere near a firearm.
I b'leev his father in law took care of any "aim" problems that might affect Mrs. Perry by snipping Ricky as soon as he could.
yeeeeshhh that's unpleasant.
She doesn't want to mess up his lipstick, come on!
Good hair.
Extreme right wing views.
Gun fetish.
Enjoys shooting furry animals.
Jebus fixation.
Intellectually disengaged and proud of it.
Has difficulty stringing a series of words together into a sentence.
Speaks in hackneyed phrases.
Uses taxpayer money for family vacations.
Has anyone ever seen Perry & Palin in the same room together? I'm starting to think they're the same person.
Has Perry ever slept with a black man?
We'll have to wait for Joe McGinniss's next book to find that out.
Quitter/Quittoria.
There's a barrel of WIN in this entire thread.
Needless to say, they will say that's a legacy of his "democrat" days, but he's "found Jesus now" and is a different man.
Holy shit batman! $300K on vacations!? Where is this fucking lameass staying – Trump Plaza?
Ya know. FUCK him! Fucking grifter. IOKIYAR
I went to New Ulm, Mn a few years back on vacation and I only ended up spending a few hundred dollars. New Ulm isn't as exotic as Maybe Paris or Madrid but it isn't nearly as expensive.
How big was your security detail? Were you protected against coyotes?
I was just with my friend Bill.
I hope you toured the Schell Brewery while in New Ulm.
You Betcha!
to be fair to anita, i like to be away from rick perry too.
Sorry, quit reading after "foul state of Texas." Suck it, Junior..
How does any of this affect $arah, or her affinity toward black men?
Am the only one that thinks that Rick Perry bears a striking resemblance to Lyle from Blazing Saddles: http://tinyurl.com/3qphs8g
The only shocking aspect of this story is the destinations themselves. Amsterdam? Madrid? I never would have thought … I was thinking the Philippines, Costa Rica, or someplace really classy, like Las Vegas ….
I was thinking Carnival Cruise.
Former half term Governor Sarah Palin must be so embarrassed on all the energy she expended to grift for such chump change in her first (and only) 19 months as a big time elected official.
Only billing $60 bucks a day 300 times to stay in her own home away from her duty station in her 25 hour work-week and whatnot. . .the per diem is for meals, which is ironic, since the kids could only eat burnt macaroni under her watch.
"Has no plans to reimburse the State"? Is this, like, fraud?
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