<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of The Blaze at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/10/heres-what-rick-perry-looked-like-while-touring-the-border-on-a-badass-boat/">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/10/heres-what-rick-perry-looked-like-while-touring-the-border-on-a-badass-boat/</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 34px; line-height: 1;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 34px; line-height: 1;">Here’s What Rick Perry Looked Like While Touring the Border on a ‘Badass’ Boat</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 34px; line-height: 1;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent Thursday afternoon with federal law enforcement officials along the Rio Grande, after President Barack Obama declined to visit the border during his trip to the state amid the surging immigration crisis.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perry traveled the river by Anzalduas Park, an area known for its <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/16/illegal-immigrants-are-crossing-into-the-united-states-onjet-skis/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">high traffic of illegal immigrants</a>coming into the United States, with a five-boat tour, law enforcement officials told TheBlaze. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Texas boats looked badass,” one law enforcement officer told TheBlaze.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The boats had mounted machine guns and were accompanied by a helicopter to assist in the border tour, the officer said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Perry on Wednesday </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/transcript/2014/07/10/exclusive-rick-perry-his-meeting-president-obama" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">described his meeting with Obama as “constructive,”</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> but said he’s concerned the president will not move forward with Perry’s suggestions to bring the National Guard to secure the border.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You know, I was like, Mr. President, you can deal with this. You can unilaterally direct the Department of Defense to put those troops on the border,” Perry told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “The president needs to understand that the single most important thing that he can do is put the National Guard on the border to coordinate with local law enforcement, with state law enforcement, with the Border Patrol.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obama said he would be open to the National Guard suggestion, but that it was only a temporary fix.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Texas Gov. Rick Perry with Texas Department of Public Safety law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Mission, Texas, July 10, 2014. He visited Anzalduas Park, a 96-acre park known for its high illegal immigration traffic. (Photo courtesy of Perry’s office)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:1AEA66E6-4E7E-47C6-AFA5-926417AE7F61" alt="image.jpeg" id="1AEA66E6-4E7E-47C6-AFA5-926417AE7F61" width="640" height="426"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>