Texas Chief Justice Says Ranch Furor an Overreaction

This article by the Texas Tribune gives the details on the rock incident that Cain and Romney were so fast to go after Governor Perry inferring he was racist.  Those are some the most offensive comments to date out of those two because the Governor is not racist in any way, shape, or form.  Never thought I would see the day when Texas Democrats stand up for Rick Perry but what they have said is true about the Governor and how he treats people from other races.  These Democrats are more honest then two of our candidates who never bothered to get the facts before trashing Governor Perry.  Anything to score points.

The black Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court who Governor Perry appointed has now added his comments (see below) to the controversy started by the hit piece by the Washington Post and fanned by Karl Rove and his two puppets running for President Romney and Cain.  Are you going to believe the Chief Justice of the TX Supreme Court along with a group of Texas Democrats or the Washington Post, Herman Cain, and Mitt Romney?  The answer is clear when you have black Texas Democrats defending Governor Perry that Cain and Romney are once again on the wrong side of this issue.  Do those two even know what a hunting lease is all about?  We have our doubts.

Now we are learning that the rock was painted over by Perry's parents shortly after they signed the hunting lease in the early 80's.  When it is brought out by the Washington Post as a very important issue, you know first it is a hit piece and then you begin to ask "Why?"  The Washington Post along with Cain and Romney are completely ignoring the facts that Governor Perry has always appointed the best people to the job regardless of race.  


One week he gets trashed for a bill from 2001 when he had been in office a few months that gave the children of illegals in-state tuition in Texas (only four voted against) as being soft on immigration, and the next week he is basically called a racist.  The establishment Republicans are now going over the top in their attempts to take him out and have found willing accomplices in the mainstream media who are afraid that Perry can beat Obama.  Forget the polls, go talk to people throughout the Country and you discover this adoration of Romney is not there like it is in the MSM and Cain is even less.   Media led by Fox News with Roger Ailes and Karl Rove are trying to drive this Republican primary.  We noted that the Fox Flavor of the Week Christie decided not to run in the Republican Primary after all.  

You need look no farther than Karl Rove to know where this trash came from and to know that he is driving Romney and Cain on this issue.  Cain is no different than Obama or his supporters when he uses the Washington Post article to attack a fellow Republican inferring they are racist.  Was advance knowledge of this story given to Cain the reason he said he couldn't support Perry if he was nominated?  I will be willing to bet that that is the case which also confirms that Rove was involved in this like others stories he has have been planting against Perry.   With this one, Rove has reached an all time low and frankly anyone donating to his Crossroads group needs to think twice if this is the way he is going to treat fellow Republicans or has he crossed the line since he has supported Democrats/Independents in the past against Perry.    

Since Cain endorsed Romney in 2008, looks like he is right there again.  What did Romney promise Cain this time to run interference?  To hear Romney on Hannity made you want to throw up considering how his Mormon Church treated blacks over the years and in a lot of cases still does.  

How many blacks did Romney appoint as Governor?  Cannot find the answer in search but did find a lot of links from the Massachusetts Resistance site which details as late as 2002 how pro-gay marriage and pro-choice Romney was when he ran for Governor -- he is a flip flopper just like John Kerry.  Mitt Romney is not conservative even a little except he is running for office and will do and say anything to get elected.  Look at the links on the Mass Resistance site and then come back and tell us that Romney is conservative.  

Texas Chief Justice Says Ranch Furor an Overreaction

• by Emily Ramshaw

• 3 October 2011

Updated 2:22 p.m.
Wallace Jefferson, the first black chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, said the hunting ranch name controversy is "much ado about nothing" and argued the implication that Rick Perry is insensitive to matters of race is flatly wrong. Jefferson, who was appointed to the post by Perry, and whose great-great-great-grandfather was a slave owned by a Waco district judge, said the reality is quite the opposite: Perry "appreciates the role diversity plays in our state and nation."

Jefferson said he can recall his first conversation with Perry, in 2001, like it was yesterday. They talked about how Jefferson's father and Perry had both been Air Force officers. Jefferson said Perry shared his view that in all circumstances, merit mattered, not race.

"To imply that the governor condoned either the use of that word or that sentiment, I find false," Jefferson said.

Original story:

At a critical juncture in his race for the GOP presidential nomination, Gov. Rick Perry has been forced to do something no candidate wants: confront incendiary allegations involving race and prejudice. 

While he should be bragging about fundraising totals and reconnecting with primary voters after his less-than-stellar debate performances, the Texas governor is instead defending himself from accusations that his family’s West Texas hunting camp was long known by the racially offensive name “Niggerhead.” The Washington Post reported Sunday that the name was visible on a rock at the camp in the 1980s and 1990s and possibly far more recently. 

Perry has forcefully denied that his family ever used the term and has said that this parents painted over the rock in the early 1980s, shortly after they first leased the land. 

Even some of Perry's fiercest Texas critics say they do not believe he is racist. They point to his record of appointments as evidence: He appointed the state’s first African-American state supreme court justice, Wallace Jefferson, and later made him chief justice. (Jefferson’s great grandfather was a slave, “sold like a horse,” Perry once said with disgust.) Perry’s former general counsel and former chief of staff, Brian Newby, is black; so is Albert Hawkins, the former Health and Human Services commissioner who Perry handpicked to lead the massive agency in 2002. 

“He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body,” said former Democratic state Rep. Ron Wilson, who is black and served with Perry in his early years in the Legislature. “He didn’t then, and he doesn’t now.” 

Added Dallas Democratic Sen. Royce West, who is also black: “I don’t agree with him on policy issues, but you can point to many things he has done that were sensitive to ethnic minorities.” 

Indeed, in his 11-year gubernatorial tenure, Perry has appointed more minorities to statewide posts — including university regents and secretaries of state — than any governor in Texas history. The biggest beating he’s taken on the campaign trail so far? His unwavering support for granting in-state tuition to the children of illegal immigrants in Texas. 

“Texans need to see that no matter where you come from, the color of your skin or the sound of your last name, that if you are willing to work hard and play by the rules you can become anything you want in this state,” Perry said in a 2010 interview with The Dallas Examiner.

(snip) 

And he has at times gotten crosswise with minorities for what has appeared to be his defense of the Confederate flag. Most famously, at his 2007 gubernatorial inaugural ball, Perry dismissed the outcry after rock star Ted Nugent showed up to perform in a shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag. Later, a Perry spokesman said the governor would never wear the flag himself, but that Nugent was perfectly entitled to do so. 

In Texas, a southern state where geography and race history often collide in uncomfortable ways, Perry will likely be forgiven — even by critics who say his conservative policies disproportionately harm minorities. 

“He appointed a black man chief justice of the state Supreme Court, for crying out loud, one of the many high-profile positions he’s given to minorities during his time as governor,” Jason Stanford, a Democratic opposition researcher and author of an upcoming book on Perry, wrote in a weekend blog post. “… If he were an n-bomb dropping cracker, we’d all know.”

But it should be no surprise to Perry if the unwanted attention lingers nationally. During a 2006 gubernatorial debate, Perry chastised independent candidate Kinky Friedman for using racial epithets in his musical acts and for describing Hurricane Katrina evacuees as “crackheads” and “thugs.” 

“Mr. Friedman, words matter,” Perry said. “If you’re going to be the governor of the greatest state in this nation, you bet you use those types of terms and it’s going to deflect from being able to do the good things that need to occur.”   

Excerpt:  Read More at the Texas Tribune

What is wrong with the so-called conservative sites that didn't bother to vet Romney and where he stood in the past on issues?  Who is actually behind some of the sites that they would ignore the Fox unethical debate in Orlando?  The answers will come out someday and would bet a lot of people are going to be shocked that Fox News under Ailes put profit margins over what is best for the Country.

The establishment, elitists, insider, Rockefeller, country club, moderate, liberal Republicans or whatever name you want to give them are the ones behind the weak dollar Romney and against Perry who believes in the strong dollar.  That group wants Perry defeated to keep the dollar weak and money flowing into their bank accounts.  


Getting more obvious by the day this is about the rich getting richer and the middle class being left behind.  If this group of Republicans want to start class warfare to return to the days of the northeast Rockefeller Republicans running the Republican Party, they are in for a rude awakening.  Not going to happen.


Bottom line is I don't see how Romney or Cain can look themselves in the mirror with their comments this week.  If Perry makes a mistake, he apologizes.  Those other two just keep right on going like nothing ever happened.  I will take the person who admits they made a mistake any day of the week.