Rick Perry Welcomed Huawei Technologies Despite Security Concern

The Washington Post:

It was the kind of scene that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will point to often as he rolls out his presidential campaign: a ribbon-cutting ceremony just outside Dallas, launching a corporate headquarters, with hundreds of new jobs, and validating what he calls his "Texas miracle" of growth.

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Comments

[annasophie1228]

12:25 PM on 08/15/2011

rick perry has an america problem.

only texans like you, governor. your jr ewing schtick will totally not resonate with the rest of the country.

[blindhog]

11:48 AM on 08/15/2011

The citizens of the U.S.A. should have MORE of a problem with Perry than China does.

He won 55% percent of the vote in Texas and the group that got him there were hispanics. They gave him 39% of their population's votes.

I wonder if that was why he was soooo interested in seceding. Does the mexican descendants in Texas want to be part of Mexico? One also has to ask what influence the Mexican drug cartels have on Texas politics. Recently news came out that border guards were paid by the cartels.

Perry doesn't scare me as much as those controlling him do.

[den1953]

11:44 AM on 08/15/2011

More jobs for the Chinese Government and minimum wage jobs ahead for Americans can the republican Party be any clearer on there plan for America?

[sillylittleme]

11:34 AM on 08/15/2011

Can someone please remind me which party has been calling China a communist country for the past 50 years? I could have sworn it was the Republicans who told us to fear communism. Do we really need yet another example of how this man wants to secede from the nation? Apparently he wants to join up with China.

[atexasdem]

11:30 AM on 08/15/2011

Speaking as a liberal Democrat if either Rick Perry or MIchell Bachmann are the republican candidates we're having a celebration party. The fact that his daughter is a Muslim should be good ammunition to infuriate the born again set.http://www.tribtalk.com/showthread.php?t=32997
Our states poor standing in education and health care. His constantly shifting positions based on which group he's speaking to, His history of rewards and patronage for those who supported him.The simple fact that he's a Texas Republican Governor exactly like George W Bush who also was his mentor, His wild comments through the years. All this with no research on my part.Wait until the serious researchers get hold of his record.

[AAHewetson]

11:20 AM on 08/15/2011

Here's another, possibly more significant, problem with Chief Featherhead.

Texas is currently enduring the driest and hottest year since records were kept. Perry has done nothing to address the issue in terms of initiating water conservation strategies, initiating energy conservation strategies, or do anything else that a right-minded governor would see as a sane response to a creeping natural disaster that is affecting the entire state.

His only proposal so far: prayer.

In fact, he has pretty much gone AWOL - leaving Texans to fend for themselves while he pursues his national political ambitions.

At least Palin was a forthright quitter.

[atexasdem]

11:45 AM on 08/15/2011

Perry lives at a resort on Lake Travis paid for with Texas taxpayer money to the tune of $10,000 a month. Drought? What drought. The swimming pool is full and Lake Travis is half full.

[AAHewetson]

12:10 PM on 08/15/2011

Perry needs to spend some time in Texas. He might stand a chance of caring about the drought if he stood a chance of stubbing his toe on an exposed piece of debris while walking down to the lake.

[D-V-H]

11:19 AM on 08/15/2011

Perry takes credit for the jobs that Huawei brought but takes no responsibility for any negative consequences associated with having them in the US.

*sigh*
Just once I'd like to see a Republican own up to the bad side of their policies. It's just like the financial sector and their privatizing of gain but "socializing" the losses.

[Kyle Brussard]

10:47 AM on 08/15/2011

Rick Perry isn't perfect, but he's doing what a shrewd capitalist would do, swallow some of his national pride in the age of Obama and hope something good can come from the Chi-coms. Obama and his union buddies along with Bubba Clinton's nuclear dealings with the Chi-coms are the reason why Red China (which is not as red as our current president) will be able to rise above us some day.

[Lesperado]

11:06 AM on 08/15/2011

Red China owns the good ole USA! Better brush up on your Chinese.

[Kyle Brussard]

11:14 AM on 08/15/2011

I'd rather have to brush up on Chinese than brush up on Arabic or Iranian.

[OkieIntellectual]

11:10 AM on 08/15/2011

Really? So Obama is now somehow a communist? Let us not forget the $5 TRILLION in budget surplus that Pres. Clinton left us when he left office... and what's the ammount of the deficit that your boy Bush managed to rack up with 10 uears of war that was based on outright lies?

[Don Giovanni]

10:47 AM on 08/15/2011

Pray to end the Texas drought. LOL!

[Don Giovanni]

10:46 AM on 08/15/2011

The new Republican "flavor of the month."

[The Green Knight]

10:44 AM on 08/15/2011

And, this is exactly what is wrong with our economy and the fact that so many people are out of work. Men like Perry will gut our U.S. economy by allowing foreign firms like China to dissect and tear our guts out, and without any security concerns whatsoever! And, this is the man we would like to make President of the United States?! Until we get off our dead rear ends and understand that we are not competing in a comparable economic atmosphere (because we trade with countries where child labor laws don't apply), we will continue to see a slide of the U.S. economy, a slide of jobs, and the impoverishment of a whole nation. So, go ahead, you vote for Perry and see if he doesn't carry out foreign affairs and government policy that further erode our livelihoods here in the United States!

[MtnGeek]

10:26 AM on 08/15/2011

So Ricky wants to pat himself on the back for the "jobs" he created, but sticks his head in the sand over the national security implications. How very Republican of him.

[BobbyNCorpus]

10:25 AM on 08/15/2011

If Perry and Bachman took and IQ test no one would win.

[mmgbizgirl]

10:00 AM on 08/15/2011

He was heard saying he could see China from his front porch. Have mercy!

[GummedUp TheWorks]

09:53 AM on 08/15/2011

"...China problem?" He wasn't able to find matching saucers?