Charles Perry co-authored the Texas law that lets police anywhere in the state arrest people for crossing the border illegally, and also helped write the state's near-total abortion ban.
Perry is a CPA from Lubbock who owns his own small accounting firm. He was elected to the Texas House in 2008, then to the state Senate in 2014, where he now chairs the Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs Committee and represents the largest Senate district in Texas.
Perry’s take on Texas values
Perry authored a bill requiring the state to regularly cross-check voter rolls against DPS citizenship records and challenge anyone flagged, a response built on the premise that voter-roll fraud is a real, ongoing problem. [LegiScan]