Flashback;Rick Perry's career,activities and success.

Senator, Rick Perry, from the Republican camp defeats his Democrat’s counterpart in the election. He is like an one man army since starting his career as a politician. Scroll down to have a quick flashback about Rick perry.

Rick Perry,a fifth generation Texan, grew up the son of tenant farmers in the West Texas,a tiny town of Paint Creek. Ray and Amelia Perry’s younger child, Rick was active in scouting and earned distinction as an Eagle Scout.

Rick Perry was one of the first in his family to go to college, earning a degree in Animal Science at Texas A&M, where he was also a member of the Corps of Cadets and a Yell Leader.

Perry served in the U.S. Air Force flying C-130 tactical airlift aircraft in the Europe and the Middle East,Between 1972 and 1977.He is a lifetime member of American Legion Post #75.

He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1998, he served two terms as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and four terms in the Texas House of Representatives.

In 1982, Perry married his childhood sweetheart, Anita Thigpen.

A few years later he started his career as a politician. And on December 21, 2000, Rick Perry , raised his right hand and took the soothe of office as Texas’ 47th Governor. Every day since then he has stood for Texans’ conservative values, fought for principled solutions to difficult challenges and worked to employ a clear vision for better schools, more jobs, safer communities and a shiny future.

Texans are safer because Gov. Perry ordered an aggressive border security initiative that is putting more boots,helicopters and more resources into the hands of border law officers who are on the front lines of America’s homeland security efforts. Texas is shutting down illegal activity on the border, thus securing the American homeland.

Perry has led the fight for better schools, signing into law a $2,000 pay raise for teachers and the country’s largest performance pay program. He has worked for higher standards and greater accountability. He ordered schools to spend 65% of tax dollars directly in the classroom—not bureaucracy—and required districts to open their financial books so taxpayers can see how their money is being spent.
Perry has made job creation a top priority of his administration that resulted in more than 630,000 new jobs over the last three years, and more Texans are working today than ever before. Throughout his term in office, Gov. Perry has proven himself to be a leader who does what he believes is right, regardless of what critics may say.
He refused to raise taxes when Texas faced a record $10 billion budget shortfall in 2003. Instead, he became the first governor since World War II to sign a budget that lowered state spending. As governor, Perry has used his line item veto to cut over $2.5 billion in proposed spending—six times more than the last four Texas governors combined.