Perry Clarifies On Bundy’s Slavery Remarks: ‘Reprehensible’

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the media before hosting a lunch appointment with Connecticut gun makers in Hartford, Conn., Monday, June 17, 2013.
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After skipping the chance to denounce Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s slavery remarks earlier Thursday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) office made clear later in the day that the governor found the comments “reprehensible.”

During a morning interview on CBS, Perry had said that Bundy was “a side issue” in the larger debate about government overreach, saying that he hadn’t seen Bundy’s statements. But Perry spokesman Felix Browne elaborated on the governor’s thinking later Thursday after he had read the interview.

“He hadn’t yet read them at the time at the time of the interview,” Browne told Business Insider. “He has now had a chance to read Bundy’s comments and he thinks they are reprehensible and disagrees with them in the strongest possible way.”

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  1. Well, Niggerhead Ranch is different than Bundy’s Ranch?

  2. Avatar for AJ AJ says:

    From the same Cretin that frequented “NiggerHead”…they’re a Special kind of Stupid in Texas…Alberto Gonzales, Louie Gomert, Karl Rove, Ted Cruz, the little man GW Bush and on and on…

  3. You aptly beat me to it! I mean the hypocrisy of it blows the mind.

  4. What a stupid man. I cant believe my state elected this buffoon twice…but then again we gave America Bush and Gomer Gohmert.

  5. Rick Perry, just another plantation advocate, displaying his feigned ignorance that Bundy is an avowed FLDS racist scofflaw.

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