Rick Perry was Algore's campaign manager. Just because he wears a cowboy hat and shoots guns, that doesn't mean he's a conservative.
Oh and by the way, Obama the Warmongering Dick Tater needs to be impeached.
That is a lie. Perry was not Gore's campaign manager. Donna Brazile was.
I noticed you didn't comment after I posted this; did you miss it?
Debra Medina claims Rick Perry was a Democrat and Al Gore's campaign manager
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Debra Medina, a Wharton businesswoman, started a question to Gov. Rick Perry during Thursday night's GOP gubernatorial debate by pointing out he hasn't always been a Republican.
Medina said: "Governor, you were a Democrat, having worked for Al Gore as his campaign manager..."
The Gore-y chapter of Perry's political life hasn't come up in a while.
We decided to explore Medina's two-part claim.
Perry didn't and couldn't dispute Medina's reminder that he was once a Democrat. Perry, whose father was repeatedly elected as a Democrat to the Haskell County Commission, won his first election, to the Texas House in 1984, as a Democrat. He won re-election in 1986 and 1988 before switching parties to challenge Democratic Agricultural Commissioner Jim Hightower in 1990 a race that Perry won in an upset.
In the debate, Perry didn't answer Medina's charge that he was Gore's campaign manager.
In fact, according to news accounts and Perry's campaign, Perry served as Gore's Texas campaign chairman in 1988.
What brought Perry to pitch in for Gore, whose candidacy washed out after he failed to do well outside his native South?
According to news reports at the time, many conservative Texas Democrats put stock in Gores campaign, among them former Gov. Dolph Briscoe and then-House Speaker Gib Lewis, who flew to Washington to endorse Gore.
PolitiFact Texas | Debra Medina claims Rick Perry was a Democrat and Al Gore's campaign manager
Texas Gov. Rick Perry
Born and raised on a West Texas ranch, Gov. Rick Perry stepped into George W. Bush's still-warm office in Austin as a poster child for the Lone Star State. He played quarterback for his high school football team, became a standout on the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University, flew C-130s in the Air Force, married the first girl he ever dated and keeps an active hand in the Boy Scouts.
Perry, 50, is also a microcosm of recent trends in state politics. The state chairman of Al Gore's 1988 presidential bid, Perry comes from a family of Texas Democrats. His father was the Democratic commissioner of Haskell County and his great-great-grandfather served in the state legislature.
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