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Perry exhorts Travis County Reds
Gov. Rick Perry commiserated with Lake Travis Republicans on the occasional downs of being red (or Republican) in historically blue (or Democratic) Austin.
“Good guys are usually outnumbered in Travis County,” Perry told more than 200 guests at the Hills Country Club in the Lake Travis area. “It’s like being a member of the resistance movement in enemy territory.”
The former Democratic Texas House member said he switched years ago after liberals drove the party into the ditch.
And telling activists they are winning the political wars, inch by inch, Perry concluded; “I look forward to the day the entire state of Texas is all red.”
For the record, he wore a dark suit jacket, maybe blue.
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By Diane S. Smith
April 18, 2006 10:54 PM | Link to this
I attended the luncheon where Gov. Perry spoke.
He gave a good speech, and it was well received by the persons who attended. He said Lakeway Republicans are the blueberry in a sea
of red soup -- how true! But he spoke to the Lake Travis Republican Men, and to the Lake Travis Republican Women, and these people go to the polls and they vote.