Rick Perry's Texas Hometown Feels Abandoned By Presidential Hopeful

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WASHINGTON -- When Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his run for the presidency on Saturday in South Carolina, he began his speech with an origin story bathed in sepia and ready-made for the stump.

"I'm the product of a place called Paint Creek -- doesn't have a zip code," Perry explained. "It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas." He then invoked images of his rural school, growing cotton and wheat, his mother sewing his clothes when he went off to college, his boyscout troop (No. 48), and meeting his future wife at a piano recital at roughly age 8.

It's an effective tale for Perry and one that he has used often in his more than 25 years holding elected office. In interviews, Perry has affirmed his love for Paint Creek. "It's a great place to grow up," Perry told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram last week. "Wonderful people out there."

Except a lot of those wonderful people out in Haskell County, home to Paint Creek, don't like Perry all that much. Residents who populated just about every aspect of Perry's biographical sketch told The Huffington Post they had grievances with Perry -- especially since he changed parties from Democratic to Republican in 1990. When it comes to helping his home county, they suggest, Perry is all talk.

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1. Please delete Duplicate Post

Thanks

[sonias]

2. They can have him back

That's fine by me.

Here's a question - why hasn't he resigned from being Texas Governor to run for President? bushie did. Why should America take him seriously if he's not going to give up his current "day job" to run.

:shrug:

[sonias]

3. Oops I posted to this thread - so they'll need to delete the other.

Sorry.

[hobbit709]

4. In other words, they're getting the same treatment we all got.

Unless of course you are a major contributor.