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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Politicians and others weighed in Monday on the news that Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, won't seek re-election next year.
Here's what they had to say:

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, says he won't seek re-election in 2014.
The staunch Christian and fiscal conservative said Monday he plans to retire. That sets up an opening for fellow Republican and longtime Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry is planning a big announcement Monday and no matter what he decides, it will transform Texas politics.
If the state's longest-serving governor chooses to retire, then at least six out of nine elected executive offices will change hands...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says the abortion restrictions bill stopped up by a Senate filibuster will pass in the new special session and become law.

Gov. Rick Perry will not be participating in the debate in South Carolina on Thursday evening. He, instead, is set to announce the end of his presidential campaign. This decision will come only two days before the South Carolina Primary.

Close barley defines it. Eight votes is all that separated Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Iowa Caucus. It was a photo finish that just may go down in the history books as the closest presidential contest ever. In a close third place position is the man many thought could take Iow…

A new Rick Perry ad in which the Texas governor and presidential hopeful laments that gays can serve openly in the military but kids can’t pray in school hasn’t recieved the YouTube reception his campaing was hoping for.
In fact, in just three days Perry’s “Stronger” spot amassed almost twice as many…

The last couple of debates have been painful to watch.  Seeing Michele Bachmann hanging on for dear life, Mitt Romney looking more like a televangelist than a guy who could be our next president (it's the hair) and Rick Perry slowly, but ever so surely, melting down...