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    Perry defends states' rights

    By SHANNON McCAFFREY | Associated Press – Mon, Jan 16, 2012

    MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is blasting the Obama administration for intruding on states' rights.

    In a Republican debate in South Carolina Monday night, the Texas governor said the state "is at war with this federal government and this administration."

    He criticized the Obama administration for slapping down South Carolina's voter identification law, which would require voters to show a photo ID before casting a ballot. He also objected to the Justice Department suing the state over its tough immigration law.

    The Texas governor said the most egregious example of federal government overreach was the National Labor Relations Board intervening in a right to work state. He was referring to a ruling against Boeing, which moved production from Washington to South Carolina.

    Perry called the federal actions "irresponsible" and "unconstitutional."

     

    15 comments

    • Carlos B
      Carlos B  •  4 mths ago
      Perry's opinions seem to shift continuously. The guy is just a Bilderberg sock puppet.
    • Chris
      Chris  •  4 mths ago
      He's such a funny little man. He defends states' rights when it suits his cause, and then calls for constitutional amendments to strip states' rights when it suits his cause.
    • lovemexfood
      lovemexfood  •  4 mths ago
      Perry is wrong about President Obama. He DOES believe in "states' rights". In fact, when Texas was suffering from all those out-of-control wildfires and the drought, the President resisted the urge to intrude on Texas' internal affairs, and refused to declare a federal disaster area. Now if that isn't respecting "states' rights", then I don't know what is.
      • les
        les 4 mths ago
        I fought some mighty big forest fires in Oregon during years it seemed the whole state was on fire and don't remember it ever being called a disaster area by the feds...but maybe Texas should be special.
    • Michael
      Michael  •  Delray Beach, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Bubba Perry is preaching to the choir in South Carolina. If that backward state could, it would reinstitute slavery.
      • steven h
        steven h 4 mths ago
        No, not slavery, but Jim Crow
      • Mr. Natural
        Mr. Natural 4 mths ago
        what they ought to do is give the filthily facility's to the whites and the cool stuff to the blacks
    • Justme
      Justme  •  4 mths ago
      GOP, the new melanoma. Lets give to the cure. Give to the Obama campaign.
    • David
      David  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      So Obama wants no one to have to prove who they are to vote, and he wants illegals to be the one's that are voting... LOL
    • Everyman
      Everyman  •  4 mths ago
      Rick the prick.
    • John
      John  •  North Hollywood, California  •  4 mths ago
      Politicians like to say what people want to hear. That's why they lie so much.
    • Neophyte
      Neophyte  •  4 mths ago
      Perry got 1% of the votes in NH. LOL
    • VET
      VET  •  4 mths ago
      Perry is still mad that they lost they lost the civil war he must think slavery was a good idea
    • les
      les  •  4 mths ago
      Seems like the last time a real issue of "states' rights" made a big splash South Carolina started the ball rolling and got their #$%$ whipped by the federal government...a little thing called the Civil War which put the whole states' rights thing into perspective.
    • GP
      GP  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      There he goes again, States do not have rights. State have powers; powers granted by the sufferance of the people.
    • Mr. Natural
      Mr. Natural  •  4 mths ago
      I still want to urinate on perry and on at least half of south crackerina
    • Magoo
      Magoo  •  Port Charlotte, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Perry hit the nail on the head! The Obama Administration has overstepped its bounds and then some!
    • Mike Johnson
      Mike Johnson  •  4 mths ago
      Perry is an idiot, the voting laws are unconstitutional. Where does it say in the Constitution that you have to have an ID to vote? In fact it says States can't make laws that keep people from voting and if some people don't have ID's that are eligible to vote and you deny them a vote you are in violation of the Constitution. If you don't like it, change the Constitution
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