2012 Presidential Campaign Blog

David Malpass Announces Radio Write-In Campaign for Rick Perry at the August 13 Ames, Iowa Straw Poll

David Malpass Announces Radio Write-In Campaign for Texas Governor Rick Perry at the August 13 Ames, IA Straw Poll;
Asks Iowa voters to write in “Rick Perry” during a 60 second radio commercial
 
New York, NY – GrowPac, a political organization dedicated to renewing America’s commitment to smaller government, individual freedom, private sector growth and strong national security, today announced its support for Governor Rick Perry and encourages him to run for President of the United States.
 
“We’re asking Iowa voters to write in Rick Perry on August 13 at the Ames Straw poll, we want to encourage the Governor to run for President,” said GrowPac Chairman David Malpass. “We need a pro-growth upheaval in Washington. Rick Perry can bring the energy and backbone to get it done. The Governor’s fed up with big-government overreach, his book and his speeches are full of details about how careful decision-making based on the tenth amendment can help restore freedom and security. We need a presidential candidate who can win and reverse the big-government takeover of health care and the economy. He knows that the problems go far beyond debt limits and spending cuts and into the core of small business job creation. Washington’s wasteful spending, uncontrolled regulation, and constant thirst for more taxes are weakening our economy and mortgaging our children’s future. Rick Perry understands that, can stop it, and should be encouraged to run for President.”
 
David Malpass is a nationally recognized economist, an established expert on federal budget and tax policy, and an independent voice for a brighter American future. As a senior Treasury and State Department official during the Reagan and Bush 41Administrations, Mr. Malpass helped enact pro-growth legislation, including landmark bills such as the 1986 tax reform, which ushered in two decades of unprecedented American prosperity. During his 17 years as a leading Wall Street economist and policy analyst, he has studied and encouraged job-creating economic programs around the world. His core belief is that long term U.S. prosperity and job growth require limiting the federal government’s expansion including reduced federal spending, holding the line on taxes and pro-growth policies to create a strong and stable dollar.
 
Radio ad transcript:
 
Hi, I’m David Malpass. As an economist and father of four, I’m appalled at Washington’s out of control debt. President Obama is making things worse. We need a president who will stop this.
 
Texas Governor Rick Perry has a proven track record of controlling spending and creating jobs. He succeeded in Texas by believing in less government, not more.
 
Rick Perry understands the 10thamendment and has the backbone to bring an upheaval to Washington.
 
Iowa has a chance to turn things around for America.
 
At the Ames Straw Poll write in Rick Perry, he can win and make America secure again.
 
I worked for Ronald Reagan and I know how countries create growth and jobs.
 
Let’s give Rick Perry a chance.
 
GrowPac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Paid for by GrowPAC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. Visit David Malpass’ GrowPac.Com

Americans For Rick Perry Announces Addition To National And Iowa Team

Americans for Rick Perry Announces Addition to National and Iowa Team

SAN DIEGO, July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans for Rick Perry (AFPR) announced today that it has retained Craig Schoenfeld as executive director of its Iowa organization, the same position he recently held for the Presidential campaign of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

Schoenfeld, an attorney from West Des Moines, has been active in the Iowa political scene, working with candidates from the "courthouse to the White House." Schoenfeld served on President Bush's 2000 Iowa Caucus and general election teams, managing the President's general election campaign in the State of Iowa as Executive Director of Iowa Victory 2000. He has also managed or otherwise been engaged with campaigns for United States Senate, Governor, Attorney General, state legislature and assorted local offices.

"We are thrilled to have a professional with as much experience in Iowa as Craig has," said Bob Schuman, AFRP Senior Consultant. "It's always difficult to find good talent. We were fortunate, not just to get good talent, we got the best operative in the state," Schuman said.

AFPR also announced the hiring of Jeff LaCourse as National Political Director. LaCourse is a seasoned political professional with over 25 years of experience in Republican politics. Most recently, Jeff served as the Northeast Regional Political Director for the Republican National Committee during the 2010 election cycle. Throughout the entire eight state region, one of his key responsibilities was to direct the party's voter identification and turnout program. The RNC's New Jersey effort, for example, helped Chris Christie achieve the largest statewide Republican percentage since Governor Tom Kean, Sr.'s, re-election in 1985. The Massachusetts program helped elect this state's first Republican U.S. Senator (Scott Brown) since 1972.

Prior to his service with the RNC, Jeff served as Regional Political Director for both the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. In the 2006 U.S. Senate Rhode Island primary, LaCourse designed and implemented the Voter ID and GOTV program that led to the largest Republican primary turnout in Rhode Island's history, topping the previous record.

"Jeff knows what it takes to get people involved and motivated on a large scale," Schuman said. "His experience on the grassroots level is unsurpassed, we are fortunate to have him on the team at a senior level."

Texas Governor Rick Perry Will Keynote Alabama Republican Party Summer Dinner

Texas Governor Rick Perry Will Keynote Alabama Republican Party Summer Dinner
 
Birmingham, AL - Bill Armistead, Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, announced today that Texas Governor Rick Perry will be the keynote speaker at the Party's Summer Dinner. The dinner will be held this year on Friday, August 12th, at the Ross Bridge Resort and Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, and will be hosted by Governor Robert Bentley and First Lady of Alabama, Dianne Bentley.
 
“Dianne and I are excited that Governor Rick Perry will visit Alabama this summer,” said Governor Robert Bentley. “It is always exciting to welcome another Republican Governor to our state and I look forward to hearing Governor Perry’s message at the summer dinner.”
 
Recently elected to his third term as the Governor of the Lone Star State, Governor Perry has also held the office of Lt. Governor, Agriculture Commissioner and was a member of the State House Representatives in Texas. A graduate and former member of the Corp of Cadets at Texas A&M, Perry was also a pilot and Captain in the U.S. Air Force. The current Chairman of the Republican Governors Association, he has a strong record of being an outspoken defender of conservative principles and fiscal responsibility. With increasing frequency, Governor Perry's name is being mentioned as a possible contender for the Republican nomination for President.
 
"GOP primary voters across America are still looking for their presidential candidate — but if Gov. Rick Perry jumps into the race, he would immediately be a leading contender for the party's nomination. He would appeal to all segments of the Republican electorate and would come armed with a record of economic success and a commitment to liberty that no other contender can match." - The Texas Tribune
 
"We are incredibly excited to have Governor Perry as our guest and speaker at the Summer Dinner in August," stated Armistead. "I met with GovernorPerry last month in Texas and he is very enthusiastic about coming to Alabama to share his vision about the future of our Party and of our nation. He articulates our conservative message well and is a commanding speaker. I am confident that he will capture the attention of everyone fortunate enough to hear him.
 
"Our country and our Party are looking for strong leaders at the national level, and there's no doubt that Governor Perry is a standout in the field of names being mentioned in the race for the White House. We're very pleased that Alabama is on his agenda, and with our Presidential Primary scheduled for next March, we're confident that we'll see other national Republican leaders and Presidential candidates make Alabama a priority in their schedule," added Armistead.

Alabama Republican Party's Summer Dinner Featuring Governor Rick Perry On August 12, 2011
 
Alabama Republican Party’s Summer Dinner and Meeting
 
With special guests
Texas Governor Rick Perry and Mrs. Perry
 
Chairman, Republican Governors Association
Hosted by Governor and Mrs. Bentley
 
Friday, August 12th

6:00pm Reception
 
7:00pm Dinner

Saturday, August 13th
 
9:00am Executive Committee Meeting
 
Renaissance Ross Bridge Resort & Spa
Birmingham, AL

Rick Perry to Address 2011 Republican Leadership Conference

Rick Perry to Address 2011 Republican Leadership Conference

Texas Governor Rick Perry announced today that he will address the 2011 Republican Leadership Conference and Reagan Centennial Celebration.
 
Mr. Perry was first elected in 2000 and is the 47th governor of Texas. Elected as Lieutenant Governor in 1998, he assumed the office of governor when George W. Bush resigned to become President. Mr. Perry won an intense 2010 Republican primary for re-election against US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. He now serves as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
 
Members of the media should click here to apply for Press Credentials for the 2011 Republican Leadership Conference.
 
Speakers confirmed so far:
 
- Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives
- Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas
- Jon Huntsman, Former Utah Governor and former Ambassador to China
- Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Congresswoman and Tea Party Caucus Chair
- Ron Paul, Texas Congressman
- Rick Santorum, former US Senator for Pennsylvania
- Herman Cain, respected business leader
- Jim DeMint, US Senator for South Carolina
- Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Congresswoman
- Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Governor
- David Vitter, US Senator for Louisiana
- Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee
- George P. Bush, Texas attorney/real estate developer and son of Gov. Jeb Bush
- Mary Matalin, top Republican strategist
- Star Parker, Founder/President of CURE
- La Congressmen Rodney Alexander, Bill Cassidy, Jeff Landry & Steve Scalise
 
RLC 2011 is being produced by the organizers of the 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference. SRLC 2010 was also held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside.

RGA Chairman Rick Perry’s CPAC Remarks, As Prepared For Delivery #CPAC11

RGA Chairman Rick Perry’s CPAC Remarks, As Prepared

“This annual gathering has truly become the incubator for great conservative thought and a place for the likeminded to reconnect, recharge and refocus on the most pressing issues of our time.

I stand before you today as a governor and a lifelong conservative who is deeply, deeply concerned with the federal government’s willful neglect of their responsibilities.

Now, if you were to ask ten people in this town to define the responsibilities of the federal government you’d likely get ten different answers and some pretty long lists to boot.

If took those lists and compared them to the federal government’s job description in the Constitution you might be surprised at the difference if not shocked and appalled.

Now, that job description is drawn from various articles of the Bill of Rights, but, as a governor, I tend to focus on the Tenth Amendment and its sensible dividing line between our rights and their responsibilities.

The 10th Amendment casts a narrow role for the federal government and conveys our Founders’ understanding that the government closest to the people truly governs best.

Its key phrase reads “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.”

Nowhere in there do I read that government is responsible for solving every problem affecting every person at all times even if the folks in this town consider that their responsibility.

In our lifetime, the federal government has decided that certain opportunities to expand their power are actually responsibilities and whittled away at individual liberty and state sovereignty bit by frustrating bit.

At the same time, big government advocates and their friends in the mainstream media have marginalized the voices of those who protest as reactionary or lacking compassion.

Do you agree with them that the only solution to our challenges is more taxation? More borrowing? More spending? More central control?

Me neither.

Over time, Washington has extended so-called “lifelines” to potential voting blocs lines that now bind the hands of state leaders and choke off individual liberties at every turn.

As people of conscience, our challenge is to untie those knots that restrain us and return to the vision of the founders.

Heaven knows the time is right.

Just three months ago, American voters sent a bold, simple message to our nation’s political establishment.

It was not complex. In fact, it was short and sweet. They said, “we are fed up and we are ready to take our country back.”

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

They want government that will live within its means.

Americans are obviously fed up with the so-called “progressive” movement that, long ago, set aside the people’s interests in favor of expanding government and raising taxes while doing the bidding of labor unions and activist judges.

Americans’ disdain for big-government cuts across party lines which led to pink slips for legislators who embraced bailouts championed so-called “stimulus” programs and supported big government giveaways.

Voters understand the true threat posed by mountains of debt and are increasingly bothered by bankrupt federal programs like social security.

The American people are fed up with bureaucrats telling them how to live their lives calling the shots on the healthcare insurance they must buy and unspooling more red tape than anyone can handle.

They are also fed up with unelected judges telling them when and where they can pray or observe the Ten Commandments. 

Most of all, they’re deeply frustrated by federal officials who do nothing to address these serious problems.

This simmering frustration erupted in an overwhelming landslide of conservative voices on election night including members of that new, legitimate force the TEA Party movement.

I will say that I’m encouraged at the efforts of the new majority in the House of Representatives.

I was genuinely moved by their Day One reading of the Constitution and encouraged by their efforts to repeal Obamacare.

I hope that the momentum shift in that positive direction continues and that misappropriated power will be returned to the states.

I’m reminded of James Madison’s perspective from Federalist Number 45, “[t]he powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.  Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite.”

My fellow Republican governors and I are working with legislators to be even better stewards of those numerous and indefinite powers.

In Texas, that’ll take a variety of forms, including our goal of balancing our budget without raising taxes.

That concept is terrifying to some folks, particularly those who throw around words like “government revenues” as if they weren’t talking about their citizens’ hard-earned dollars.

To hear them speak, you’d think each state had a magic printing press in their capitol basements but I can assure you, there’s no such thing.

Now, here in Washington, they do have the keys to that printing press and they use it far more than they should because, to them, it’s easier to leverage our children’s future than telling people “no.”
 
As a result, the federal government continues to grow, and intrude, and constrict around our liberties choking off innovation and discouraging the sort of risk-takers that made our country great.

America’s founders certainly fit that category, getting in on the bottom floor of the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever seen.

They knew enough about human nature and government’s overwhelming urge to grow and overtake to plan for the worst.

So they limited the power of the federal government and entrusted the challenges of day-to-day governance to leaders at the state and local level.

In the centuries that followed, America has been the shining example of the truth that free people work harder and achieve greater things than those being crushed under the weight of an oppressive government.

Unfortunately, America’s greatness is at risk because we have allowed Washington to expand at the expense of liberty.

Maybe it was the siren song of earmarks for local projects but we have allowed the creation of a monster.

The federal government’s current role directly contradicts the principles of limited, constitutional government that our founders established to protect us.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities.

As a result, we’re stuck with that frustrating paradox where Washington neglects the areas clearly within their purview while interfering in other areas in which they’re neither welcome nor authorized.

Let me give you an example from my neck of the woods.

Texas has a lot of unique features, including a 1,200 mile international border and a long history of strong relations with Mexico.

The security of that border is one of Washington’s essential roles yet they continue their record of abject failure in that area.

As a result, we continue to deal with violent Mexican drug cartels who work closely with transnational gangs on our side of the border operating with no regard for the law or respect for life.

You may recall the story from last October of the murder of David Hartley on Falcon Lake.

I share his widow’s frustration that her husband’s body has not been found, nor has anyone been brought to justice.

The bad actors in Mexico are getting worse, and the risks to our citizens continue to rise along the border and in communities across this country where drugs continue to flow.

Despite stories like this and our frequent requests, Washington still hasn’t dedicated sufficient resources to secure our international border.

We still need 1,000 National Guard troops to support current law enforcement operations on our border until they can provide those 3,000 more border patrol agents.

We also need Predator drones flying along the Texas-Mexico border providing real time intel to our state and local operation centers.

These actions would fulfill an actual federal responsibility.

Instead of more Border Patrol officers, they send more bureaucrats from an unbelievably activist EPA who are hell-bent on derailing an air quality program that we created 17 years ago to meet federal standards.

Rather than praise our program that reduced ozone levels across the state by 27% between 2000 and 2009, more than the reductions achieved by any other state, they threaten us with fines and lawsuits.

In true Texas style, we made those air quality improvements while Texas employers were creating more private sector jobs than any other big state in the nation.

Texas has long led the nation in job creation…including half of all jobs created in the US between 2009 and 2010. 

That’s no fluke. 80% of the new private sector jobs in America since 2005 were created in the Lone Star State.

The jobs were created by Texans who risked their capitol and worked hard in a job-friendly environment shaped by four basic rules.

First, we don’t spend all the money, so we have resources set aside for a rainy day and our low taxes appeal to job creators.

Second, we’ve defended a predictable regulatory climate, so employers know what to expect and can take those risks.

Third, we reformed our legal system to cut down on a plague of junk lawsuits that had our employers and doctors tied up in the courtroom.

Fourth, we introduced accountability into our school system, so our young people are getting better prepared to compete in the workplace.

My fellow Republican governors, including Bob McDonnell in VA and Chris Christie in NJ, are enacting similar measures.

I’m not saying each state is some kind of problem-free nirvana. The challenges we face are still very real, and compounded by Washington.

Washington’s obsession with the primacy of their ideas and their love affair with one-size-fits-all solutions is a direct contradiction of their constitutional roles.

Speaking of overreach, did I mention Obamacare?

I sincerely hope our principled senators, regardless of party, will toss out that trainwreck of a plan or its mandates will cripple our healthcare system and its price tag will bust our budget.

Our Medicaid population and accompanying financial burden are growing as we speak and, in 2014, ObamaCare will cause them to explode.

Right now, this Washington-centric approach to healthcare has a whole lot of states on a collision course with bankruptcy.   

Instead of oppressive mandates, we need solutions like block grants and the freedom to improve health care delivery with innovation, flexibility and local input.

You and I believe, and at least two federal courts have confirmed that it’s unconstitutional and wrong for the government to force someone to buy health insurance.

In this and other areas of overreach, we must be united in sending one clear and simple message to Washington: “ENOUGH”.

If you’ve had enough, I want you to take out your cellphone right now. I’ll wait. And I want you to text the words “Fed Up” to 95613.

Text “FED UP” to 95613 and my team will keep you informed on our efforts to carry that message to the powers in Washington.

On November 2nd, 2010, the American people sent that very message with their vote.

In the process, they affirmed the power individual Americans hold and repudiated an overly-controlling central government.

In settings like this conference, and in living rooms and board rooms and legislative chambers, we need to keep this conversation going.

We need to have frank discussions about the role of government, and the willingness to hold our leaders accountable.

Leaders in this town who profess to be conservative should vote to handcuff the big spenders by simplifying our tax system once and for all and passing a balanced budget amendment the U.S. Constitution.

Such a bold move would protect future generations from new administrations that run rampant upon taking office as this one has so brazenly done.

Like my fellow voters, like my fellow conservatives in this room I don’t see storm clouds and sadness on the horizon as much as I see a bright and prosperous future for America.

That future is contingent upon a return to our essential constitutional values and the individual freedom for which they were written.

Restoring a constitutional, limited government will take a massive effort, but our people are more than equal to the task.

I believe that the change that is taking hold at the state level will continue to germinate and that governors will lead the charge for reformation.

I encourage you to not only speak your mind to your representatives here in Washington, but do what you can to elect conservative Republican governors in 2012 to keep the momentum going.

With the continued influence of conservative groups like CPAC and bold leadership from elected officials at every level we can surely recapture what is great about America and restore this nation to pre-eminence in the world as a beacon of individual liberty and economic prosperity.

There is no greater cause in our time.

Thank you again for having me here today and lending an ear to my concerns.

May God bless you and, through you, may He continue to bless this nation we love so much.”