by Matthew DowdTexas Gov. Rick Perry, elected to the Texas Legislature in 1984, came to be known as one of the "Pit Bulls," who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases.In 1986, I was running the Texas Democratic Party primary, and in walked an attractive rancher who submitted his filing to run as a Democrat for state representative for a district in rural West Texas. That rancher is now the state's Republican governor, Rick Perry. I have known him for 25 years off and on, and I know his staff very well. And Perry is...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/06/the_rick_perry_i_know_260926.html
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