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Rick Perry, Harvard-Hater, Heads to Harvard Club Today

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is hosting a $1,000 head fundraiser at the Harvard Club this afternoon.

For his sake, however, there hopefully won’t be too many former Crimson wandering through.

That’s because the Lone Star State’s leader has made it a habit of picking on the country’s oldest college.

In his book Fed Up, Mr.Perry writes that he switched parties in 1989 because ”Democrats were no longer the party of Jackson and the people, but the party of Roosevelt, Kennedy, and now Obama—more interested in government and the opinions of Harvard, Washington, and Upper West Side Manhattan than the beliefs of those people in flyover country between the coast.” Read More