"Rick Perry is running for president, his spokesman Mark Miner said on Thursday.
The former Texas governor intends to make it official on Saturday in South Carolina on the same day many of his rivals for the GOP nod in the 2012 presidential race will compete in the Ames Straw Poll, an important test of strength in the Republican primary. Perry will arrive in Iowa on Sunday to make a speech in Waterloo."
Rick Perry on running for president: ‘This is what I’m supposed to be doing’
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