Neo-libs should LOVE Perry. He supported Al Gore for president and actually served as Al Goreβs campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year; he's incredibly soft on the illegal immigration; he issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade; when he became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion; and soooo on.