{"id":523020,"date":"2010-04-10T18:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T22:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16211"},"modified":"2010-04-10T18:20:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T22:20:33","slug":"gov-perry-i%e2%80%99m-focused-on-texas-not-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523020","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Perry: I\u2019m Focused on Texas, Not 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Rick Perry tells Fox News he is not running for president in 2012. During an appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/americasnewshq\/index.html\">America&#8217;s News Headquarters<\/a>, the republican governor, who is running for re-election this November, responded to fresh criticism from his democratic opponent Bill White that Perry is more focused on a 2012 presidential run than the needs of his home state saying, \u201cMy name is not on the straw poll. I have no interest in the presidential election personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry&#8217;s speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Friday night had some national media pundits talking about Perry for president in 2012. White\u2019s campaign spokesperson Katy Bacon capitalized on that press &#8212; and released a statement that read, &#8220;Bill White spent his day meeting with Farm Bureau leadership and the Chamber of Commerce in Waco. Rick Perry spent his day campaigning in Louisiana, talking about Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Governor Perry fired back on Fox News and said he&#8217;s the one looking out for Texas, not White. Perry said his presence at the conference, held in New Orleans, was a recruiting trip. The governor says he&#8217;s trying to recruit Louisiana businesses to move to Texas. Perry added, &#8220;I&#8217;m for the Texas way of doing business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Rick Perry tells Fox News he is not running for president in 2012. During an appearance on America&#8217;s News Headquarters, the republican governor, who is running for re-election this November, responded to fresh criticism from his democratic opponent Bill White that Perry is more focused on a 2012 presidential run than the needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}