For this assignment I have chosen to do A Day in the Life of
Rick Perry. The work will be satirical, making fun of stupid things he
has said or done and depicting his bigoted political beliefs. A few ideas of
things I wish to portray are:
His anti-choice
stance on abortion. Rick Perry is adamantly opposed to abortion and has
stated that it is his ultimate goal to outlaw the procedure completely. He has
signed several bills into law that restrict access to abortion in Texas.
His support for the
death penalty. For someone who works so hard to take away a person’s right
to abortion to ‘preserve the sanctity of human life’, Rick Perry sure does like
killing people. Texas has carried out 234 executions since Rick Perry became governor.
This is the highest number of executions for any governor during their term. Obviously Rick Perry has
been in office a lot longer than most governors serve but 234 is still an
overwhelmingly large number of executions. Behind Perry with the second highest
number in executions is George W. Bush (surprise! Another Teas governor) with
152 executions. The third highest is the 25th governor of Oklahoma
with 52 executions. Also, in June 2002, Perry vetoed a ban on the execution of
mentally disabled inmates which is just really shitty.
His homophobia and Transphobia. Perry supported the 2005 ballot proposition which amended the Texas constitution
by defining marriage as "only a union between a man and a woman" and
prohibiting the state from creating or recognizing "any legal status
identical or similar to marriage." During the 2012 presidential
debate, he criticized the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. In 2011, although trans people could marry
partners of the opposite sex, Perry said that he "never intended" to
sign a bill allowing that privilege, and threatened to ban marriages for transgender people.
His ‘Oops’ moment. During a Republican Presidential
debate in 2011, Rick Perry named the three agencies of government he would he
would eliminate: “Commerce, Education, and uhh.. I can’t remember. Oops.”
He is a skeptic on global warming and
evolution. Rick Perry has publicly expressed his skepticism of global warming. He has also said that ‘evolution is just a theory that is out there’ and he
believes creationalism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools.
In my
composition I plan to hand render a caricature/cartoon of Rick Perry as well as
other elements I can’t get pictures of. I plan to photograph a Texas flag to
use in my composition as well as other elements depending on which thumb I
decide to go with.
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