Romney Campaign: Perry Inspires California On Immigration

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Where does California get all its liberal ideas on immigration? Why, from Rick Perry of course.

At least, so says a new web video posted this morning on Mitt Romney’s Rick-Perry targeting website careerpolitician.com.

The video, titled “Governor Perry: An Inspiration To Liberal California,” juxtaposes images of Perry with California Governor Jerry Brown. Smooth piano music plays as text describes the Perry policies that California allegedly emulated: Among them, state aid for illegal immigrants attending college, and opposition to the illegal immigrant identification program E-Verify.

“Rick Perry: Supplying Bad Ideas To California Since 2001,” the video concludes.

Rick Perry’s spokesman Mark Miner has since fired back, reports Politico :

“Governor Perry is the only candidate in the race with front line experience on border security and immigration issues. Its hypocritical for Mitt Romney to be critical on this issue considering he not only hired illegal immigrants but also provided them with free healthcare when he was governor.”

So in summation, both Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are liberal. At least Herman Cain has only been dealing with sexual harassment allegations lately.

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