Prior to his cabinet position, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from  December 2000 to January 2015. A Republican, he was elected Lieutenant  Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000  when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the  United States.
Jul 10, 2017 ... Rick Perry, for one, served three terms in the Texas House as a Democrat, and  even campaigned for Al Gore in his 1988 Presidential run, before changing  parties, in 1989. In 1994, Texas elected its last statewide Democrat. “It was a  complete rout of a political party,” Miller said. While George W. Bush was ...
Aug 31, 2011 ... The boots belong to Texas Governor James Richard "Rick" Perry, an undefeated  conservative darling and gubernatorial successor to George W Bush, who's ... "It's  very clear the high expectations for his entering the race have played out,  because the evidence is in the polls, it's in how others are having to ...
Nov 30, 2016 ... The Texas Miracle, by John Cole is a political cartoon mocking Texas Governor  Rick Perry for his comments on the well being of Texas and his presidential ...  You may recognize the Phrase “Texas miracle” from President George W. Bush's  two thousand presidential campaign and his “No child Left Behind” ...
Continuing a dramatic reversal on voting rights under President Donald Trump,  the U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to allow Texas to  ... calling its decision to take down the Confederate flag and four others that had  flown over the park part of a “militant, anarchist movement sweeping our country,  ...
When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."