{"id":11657,"date":"2011-10-14T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2011-10-14T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:44:58","slug":"perry-getting-hit-from-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11657\/perry-getting-hit-from-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Getting Hit from the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hits just keep on coming at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry.\u00a0 The governor of Texas is in increasingly hot water as he tries to parry away charges that he\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2011\/10\/for-rick-perry-immigration-could-be-key-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">soft on illegal immigration<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/gov-perrys-shaky-defense-of-texas-investment-funds\/2011\/10\/13\/gIQAVEkViL_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">insider tax breaks<\/a> for friendly corporations.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/politics\/2011\/10\/14\/texas-tea-party-activists-demand-gov-perry-push-tough-immigration-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tea Party activists are demanding<\/a> that Perry sign an executive order or call a special session of the state legislature to pass an Arizona-style law authorizing state police to check a person\u2019s immigration status.\u00a0 On the business front, Perry\u2019s use of a governor-controlled \u201cemerging technology fund\u201d is <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203914304576629333898072992.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\" target=\"_blank\">drawing criticism<\/a> for producing more misses than hits for taxpayers told that tax holidays for some would create jobs for many others.<\/p>\n<p>Perry can\u2019t run away from his record.\u00a0 He can, however, enhance it with better defenses of it.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see if he\u2019s up to the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hits just keep on coming at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry.\u00a0 The governor of Texas is in increasingly hot water as he tries to parry away charges that he\u2019s soft on illegal immigration and insider tax breaks for friendly corporations. In Texas, Tea Party activists are demanding that Perry sign an executive order or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,2710,615,514,1784,838,28,561],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-crony-capitalism","tag-gop","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-republican","tag-rick-perry","tag-tea-party","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11661,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions\/11661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}