Bobby Jindal Endorses Texas Gov. Rick Perry for President

California, Sep. 12, 2011
NRIpress.com

Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Governor, today endorsed Texas Gov. Rick Perry for president, praising the candidate’s unmatched record of job creation, lower taxes and smaller government.

Gov. Jindal said:

• Rick Perry is the candidate who can lead our party to victory in 2012
• His record on job creation simply cannot be beat, and the one million jobs he’s helped create as governor is a stark contrast to the 2.4 million jobs lost on President Obama’s watch.
• Rick Perry will bring our country more than hope and he’ll get America working again

In response to Bobby Jindal's endorsement, Rick Perry said:

• I truly appreciate Gov. Jindal’s endorsement because he is a leader who knows what it takes to rebuild an economy and restore people’s confidence.
• His efforts to cut taxes and reduce unreasonable regulations are helping the Louisiana economy grow, and that is exactly what I aim to do for America
• We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans.
• The change we seek will never emanate out of Washington, D.C. It will come from the windswept prairies of Middle America, the farms and factories across this great land, from the hearts and minds of the goodhearted Americans who will accept not a future that is less than our past…patriots who will not be consigned to a fate of less freedom in exchange for more government.

Rick Perry (The 47th governor of Texas) announced his candidacy for President of the United States on Aug. August 13, 2011.

• He grew up in the small community of Paint Creek, located along the rolling plains of West Texas
• He is the son of Ray Perry, a World War II tailgunner who flew 35 missions over war-torn Europe, and Amelia Perry, who provided a loving, nurturing home for Rick and his older sister Amelia. Ray and Amelia Perry started out as tenant farmers, providing a modest upbringing for their children.
• Rick Perry grew up without indoor plumbing the first five years of his life, wore clothes hand-sewn by his mother, and was even bathed in a number 2 washtub as a young boy.
• He was one of 13 students in the Paint Creek Rural School’s Class of 1968. He played six-man football, worked on his family farm, and devoted himself to the Boy Scouts, earning the rank of Eagle while in his teens.
• In 1972, he was graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science.
• Perry took a commission in the United States Air Force, flying C-130 tactical aircraft to destinations around the globe, including South America, Europe and the Middle East.
• In 1977, Perry was honorably discharged from the Air Force with the rank of Captain, and he returned home to the family farm, where they grew dryland cotton, milo and wheat.
• He became one of millions of conservative Reagan Democrats
• He married his high school girl friend, Anita Thigpen, 16 years after their first date. In 1983, they got son Griffin, and their daughter Sydney arrived in 1986

Perry 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.

In 2002, 2006 and 2010, Perry was elected to full gubernatorial Perry is the longest continuously serving current U.S. governor.