Governor Perry Stops in East Texas

BIG SANDY — Governor Rick Perry spent part of Independence Day in Big Sandy. KETK reports he spoke for about 20 minutes at the New Beginnings Christian Church for an event hosted by the Big Sandy Rotary Club. The former Republican presidential candidate said, “There’s no better way to spend a holiday, and this truly is a special holiday for people across our great nation.”

Perry also remarked about the nation’s founding fathers. “Today,” he said, “we remember and celebrate the wisdom and the courage of our founding fathers who faced adversity and created a new nation, the greatest nation. I’m not going to say they get it right all the time in Washington D.C., because they don’t. But what a great country we live in. How blessed we are to wake up in a country that was founded on principles. Our founding fathers did get it right.” Governor Perry planned to spend the rest of the holiday in Austin.