Remember Lawn Chair Larry? The former trucker, Larry Walters, got an honorable mention from the Darwin Awards which “salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it.”
Larry lived to tell the story of his 1982 experience attaching helium-filled weather balloons to his lawn chair after hatching a plan to drink a few beers while floating 30 feet above his girlfriend’s house. But his friends cut the rope he had attached to his jeep, and the lawn chair with Larry in it shot up to 16,000 feet.
Larry wisely decided not to use the bb gun he brought along to shoot the balloons when he was ready to come down. He wound up being rescued when he came up on air controllers’ sites near the LA Airport.
Rick Perry is our very own Texas Lawn Chair Larry. Though he is a big joke on Texas, his stunts, like bringing pigs to crash opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison’s press conference, just aren’t funny. Hey Governor, bringing pigs to press conferences are what grassroots organizers like me do to entice media attention. For god’s sake, you’re the flipping Governor!
Austin voters fought a $65 million tax subsidy of a luxury shopping mall in '08
I am advocating that independents carry out an “Anyone But Perry” strategy in the 2010 Governor’s race. We should use the Texas open primary and vote in the Republican primary and then again, in the general election as a massive voting block of at least 1.3 million voters. That is the number of voters who voted either for Carole Strayhorn or Kinky Friedman in 2006.
We’ve got two chances to cut Perry’s rope. The first is to vote for one of Perry’s opponents in the March Republican primary: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison or Debra Medina, a Republican Party activist aligned with Ron Paul. Perhaps Medina can get enough steam going to split the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Kay Bailey could unite some Republican conservatives with Republican moderates and win over enough independents to beat Perry in the primary. The second chance will be in the general election in November. The Democrats may consider running a more viable candidate than the current menu (no offense Kinky and Hank) to take on one of the two titans, Kay Bailey Hutchison or Rick Perry. I predict that if Perry is the Republican nominee, most independents (including many third party and Libertarian voters) will vote Democratic to help send Rick Perry 16,000 feet above the Dallas airport.
So many reasons to cut Perry’s rope, yet so little time. My favorite is Perry’s dogged efforts to rob Texans of their land for a $700 billion project that nobody wants. The Trans-Texas Corridor (or whatever name the Governor cooks up to confuse us) is a massive road, utility and rail trade corridor designed to import even more cheap mostly Chinese goods moving through non-unionized Mexican ports.
The Corridor and the Governor’s privatized toll road schemes are his Achilles heel because they spurred a grassroots cross-partisan citizens movement that is independent of the parties and the mess they’ve created. How about those toll roads to nowhere, like the near infamous Grand Parkway (aka “Porkway”) and the expansion of 290E in Austin? Thanks to the our slick Governor and the corrupt agency otherwise known as TxDOT, these two roads are slated to use stimulus funds to satisfy the Growth Lobby.
The Growth Lobby – the perpetual hogs at the government trough-consists of companies like CINTRA (the Spanish toll road consortium, whose lobbyists have worked inside the Governor’s office); homebuilders like Bob Perry (no relation) who have given Perry millions; Democrats like Austin area State Senator Kirk Watson (who is so smart he could have really been somebody), Chambers of Commerce, the Real Estate lobby, some road contractors, and a litany of related companies and lawyers.
The Growth Lobby helps ensure that Texas has highest property taxes in the nation, and is one of only five states without real estate sales disclosure. Under this scenario large-scale commercial developments and raw land across Texas are undervalued by, on average, 40%. The Growth Lobby is driving population growth to areas, like Austin, where they want to double the population in just 16 years. Their plans for infrastructure, including roads and water are at best speculative. (For details go to CostofGrowth.com).
Lawn Chair Larry gave us all a helluva lot more than Rick Perry — a great big laugh at our own silliness. Let’s not be so silly as to re-elect Lawn Chair Perry. The only award Rick Perry deserves is the one actually bestowed on Lawn Chair Larry. That was the Bonehead Club Award of Dallas.
Rick Perry is America’s best governor. More jobs created in Texas. Fiscally sound state government. 9 billion dollar rainy day fund. Keeping Texas #1 in the nation. Kay Bailey Hutchison is a wishy-washy flip-flopping RINO without moral compass or principles. She blows in the wind. Senator Hutchison is infected with Potomac Fever. Keep her away from Texas government, lest we become infected with her plague.
Thanks to Perry’s staff member, Jay Blakemore, for his “insightful” commentary.
Hey Jay Blakemore, how about we elect NEITHER of them?
Rick Perry is treasonous scum. He tried to sell out Texas and the US to Cintra and his buddies at Bilderberg.
Oh and Rick Perry created jobs in the public sector, the OPPOSITE of what Texas needs, so please, go crawl back under that rock of yours.
Rick Perry is scum with his outrageous toll roads and his extortion with the entire driving system. I don’t like the way he conducts his shady business and it puts our state to shame when he behaves the way he does and costs us so much money helping out his special interest groups. We need a new governor anyways. Time for some fresh blood in the spot
Our family farm was in the study zone for the trans-texas corridor. We were not prepared to give up 6 generations of work so that Rick Perry could steal our land. As an aggie class of 77 I find his behavior offensive and a violation of the aggie code of honor. As a former boy scout and father of an eagle scout I find his attempt to tie himself to scouting with his silly little book disgusting. We the people of Texas deserve an explanation as to how this man who has never held a job in the public sector became a millionare.How is sitting in governmental positions and utilizing privliged information any different from insider trading on wall street. We deserve an explaination as to what the governor discussed with the Bilderbergs in europe. We deserve better.
Vaccinate THIS Perry!
Great article! And YES, we gotta give the goon the boot! Debra Medina is the solution. Check her out, and vote in the primary. (Starting 2-17-10)
Hi Eve and All: If you want a free sticker, you have to keep pressing that button to see the 17 quips about slick Rick – then send it to us at ljcurtis@indytexans.org. If you don’t have the patience for that, or want to help us out, go to our contribution page and send a donation for your sticker(s). Spread the word – the people will be heard. Linda Curtis
PS If you are an independent voter (you vote for the person, not the party), why don’t you also join Independent Texans for just $10. We’ve extended our deadline, so if you sign up by Jan. 31, you can vote on our endorsement. Go to Independent Texans’ contribution page here: http://www.indytexans.org/contribute/
I still don’t know why few people recognize that Perry knowingly entered a false statement into a governmental record (his Executive Order RP-65) when he claimed the Texas State Constitution granted him unitary executive authority to mandate law, when he demanded that a vaccine which one of his contributors happened to manufacture be injected into every female child entering a certain grade level in Texas. As I understand theTexas Penal Code, entering a false statement into a governmental record would constitute the commission of a State Jail Felony, punishable by up to ten years in prison upon conviction.
Sure wish our “Law Enforcement” officers would enforce the law regarding him. But since many also contend he violated Federal law by attending the Bilderberg Conference without having sought any authorization by the United States Congress, our Law Enforcement officers may simply believe that Governor Perry has a goldfen ticket allowing him to disregard laws (which he himself swore to preserve, protect, and defend).
This is a great site. Please support Debra Medina in the Primary. We need to retire Rick and Kay “Bailout” now more than ever.
It’s amazing the arm-twisting that Perry is doing for support. What drug is the NRA on these days?
Go Debra Medina!!! (and no I don’t work for her) Everyone who calls themselves a conservative in Texas should rally behind Debra Medina. She is the only choice for true conservatism, constitutional rule of law, and protection of personal liberty.
My daughter was 20 feet away from the “capitol shooter”, as the gunman brought his gun down he stared at my daughter and her friend. The 2 young women were so close to him they could have been easy targets, and no one could have stopped him from killing them. Rick Perry said on the news the next day that we don’t need extra security at the capitol for there are so many people at the capitol with legal concealed weapons that they can protect the capitol. Except they didn’t, and there was no guard at the door, and the cameras weren’t on or working. Rick Perry is a dangerous man for he takes lightly what we hold most dear.
Re: “An Open Letter to Sarah Palin…” Right on the mark, Linda. Well stated!
By the way, I just started looking at Farouk Shami for governor—seems has some good ideas.
Thanks,
Mona
[...] site includes articles like the one comparing the governor to “Lawn Chair Larry,” that guy in California who tied a bunch of big helium ballons to his armchair so he could float [...]
Under the topic of constitutional rule of law does anyone here understand the term Nullification?
“We must use the tools of nullification and interposition aggressively if we are going to restore state sovereignty in Texas, if we are going to secure for all Texans a freedom to work and prosper as we choose and as we direct.”
Remember that little family feud called the Civil War? The spark that lit that power keg was nullification.
On of the defining characteristics of the United States is the word United. There are many ways to curb excessive Federalism without resorting to nullification and it sister, Perry’s own Secession.
We doubt you will find unity amongst independent voters on this issue and most Americans have no idea what you’re talking about. Sovereignty is a complex subject which deserves a full-blown discussion debate amongst the electorate and a level playing field for a competition of ideas to get at the problems nullification seeks to address. Civil (or un-civil) war between the parties — thanks but no thanks!
Debra Medina is clearly the the only logical choice for our state governor. She is the real deal, and will not sell out as Kay and Rick have.
If she ever did, we’d giver her the boot too, but I just don;t see it happening. The Slick Rick/Glenda Beck character assassination attempt has failed; Debra will come out on top for their churlish, ill-conceived plot in the end and take the blue ribbon at the finish line.
Thank you Glenda Beck for bringing Medina to the attention of millions of Texans whom she otherwise could not have reached. But all may not be lost for you; maybe you’ll get that FRENCH KISS from your buddy Ricky you’ve openly fantasized about as a consolation prize, you pervert. How about we apply your use of logic to your butty Perry?
Reporter: “Governor Perry, Glenn Beck looks like a sloppy kisser — a real face eater. What do you think?”
Perry: “I don’t know, I have no opinion on that.”
Reporter: *”There you have it ladies and gentlemen. Rick Perry confirms that Glenn Beck is a sloppy kisser.”*
rick perry turned down $3 billion if you voted for perry shame on you, go to hell perry supporters
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