<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div class="original-url" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; "><b><font size="4">RICK PERRY: “TIME TO PASS MANTLE TO NEW GENERATION OF BONEHEADS”</font></b></span></div><div class="original-url" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; "><b><font size="4">(Or maybe a Harvard Grad. wearing pink running shoes? </font></b></span><font face="Palatino" size="4"><b>M.S.)</b></font> </div><div class="original-url" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; "><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></span></div><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><p><img alt="boro-perry-post.jpg" width="580" height="382" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="74efe09e-403b-4c7c-ab0e-edda7629bfbd" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:48A62913-F2A1-4E2C-AACA-6A2EBC52CC47@att.net"></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><b>SAN ANTONIO</b> —Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced yesterday that he would not seek reëlection, telling supporters, “The time has come to pass the mantle of leadership to a new generation of boneheads.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">“I’ve had a good run,” he said. “But after twelve years, someone else who isn’t playing with a full deck should take a turn at the wheel.”</p><div><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Reflecting on his twelve years as governor, Mr. Perry said that he had “no regrets” except for being incoherent the entire time.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Before leaving office, Gov. Perry said that he would propose three signature bills “just to let future Texans know how Rick Perry marked his territory.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">The first bill would require all voters in the state to have an I.D. with a photo of a white person; the second would force anyone filibustering an anti-abortion bill to ride a mechanical bull; and the third he could not remember.</p><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><br></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></body></html>