{"id":20529,"date":"2017-03-23T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20529"},"modified":"2017-03-23T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T02:05:00","slug":"stick-to-energy-issues-secretary-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20529","title":{"rendered":"Stick to energy issues, Secretary Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Count me as one of those who is astonished at\u00a0comments from Energy Secretary Rick “Oops” Perry.<\/p>\n

What got the new energy boss’s dander up? Get a load of this.<\/p>\n

He’s angry that Texas A&M University’s Student Government Association has elected its first openly gay president.<\/p>\n

Wow! Um, Secretary Perry, you have a full plate of national security and energy issues that deserve your attention. I get that you’re a dedicated Aggie grad, a former yell leader at A&M and\u00a0former Texas governor.<\/p>\n

But holy crap, dude!<\/p>\n

Perry said Bobby Brooks’ election was “stolen” from another candidate who was disqualified on technical grounds.<\/p>\n

Gig ’em, Rick?<\/a><\/p>\n

“The desire of the electorate is overturned, and thousands of student votes are disqualified, because of free glow sticks that appeared for eleven seconds of a months-long campaign,” Perry wrote to the Houston Chronicle. “Apparently glow sticks merit the same punishment as voter intimidation.”<\/p>\n

I am not going to get into the details of a student body government election. I have no dog in that fight. Nor do I have any particular interest in it.<\/p>\n

It astounds me, though, that Secretary Perry would even decide to weigh in on this matter. Of all the things that should occupy the secretary’s attention now that he has a new job in the Trump administration, one would think that a Texas A&M University SGA election would barely appear on his radar screen.<\/p>\n

According to the Houston Chronicle: “Mark Jones, a Rice University political science professor who has watched Perry political career rise and fall for years, said he, too, was surprised by Perry’s intervention into the A&M election.<\/p>\n

“‘This must be his inner Aggie speaking, because this is certainly not something you expect a cabinet secretary to weigh in on \u2013 actually, probably not even a governor,’ Jones said. ‘It’s strange. Of all the things he could have an opinion on, this is probably not the smartest move for a cabinet secretary. He must really be upset about it.'”<\/p>\n

Yep. He’s mad and he’s going to throw the weight of his office behind some real or feigned outrage over Bobby Brooks’ election as student body president.<\/p>\n

C’mon, Mr. Secretary. Let the new SGA boss do his job … whatever the heck it is.\u00a0Brooks’ first priority, after all, ought to focus on his studies.<\/p>\n

I think it’s reasonable to ask: Would the energy secretary be as hopped up over this if Bobby Brooks weren’t gay?<\/p>\n\n

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Count me as one of those who is astonished at\u00a0comments from Energy Secretary Rick “Oops” Perry. What got the new energy boss’s dander up? Get a load of this. He’s angry that Texas A&M University’s Student Government Association has elected its first openly gay president. Wow! Um, Secretary Perry, you have a full plate of … Continue reading Stick to energy issues, Secretary Perry<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,13,18],"tags":[7022,7021,3951,4576],"class_list":["post-20529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-national-news","category-state-news","tag-department-of-energy","tag-energy-secretary","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas-am"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20531,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions\/20531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}