Nov. 8, 2010-Gov. Rick Perry
(R-TX) spoke at the Heritage Foundation while promoting his book FED UP! Our Fight to Save America from
Washington (Little, Brown and Company, Nov. 15, 2010).
According to the book jacket, "We are tired of being told how much salt
to put on our food, what kind of cars we can drive, what kinds of guns
we can own, what kind of prayers we are allowed to say and where we can
say them, what we are allowed to do to elect political candidates, what
kind of energy we can use, what doctor we can see." Perry emphasized
the Tenth Amendment ("The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.")
Proceeds from sales of the book go to the Texas Public Policy
Foundation’s Center for Tenth Amendment Studies. Several times
during the presentation, Perry denied any presidential ambitions;
indeed he said the book was evidence that he does not plan a White
House run. Perry became governor on Dec. 21, 2000, upon the
resignation of then-Gov. George W. Bush, and was elected to a third
full term last Tuesday.
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