From the Statesman's email bag:
Do not call -- that means you, governorImagine, sitting at home, watching a little TV with the family, and a phone starts ringing. I pause the movie and look for the phone. I don't find it in time, so the machine gets it. I was appalled to hear a recording from Gov. Rick Perry. How could that be? We signed up for the "do not call list" he endorsed.
Round Rock
Politicians, of course, exempted themselves from the Do Not Call statute.
Maybe he had heard that there was someone out there that thought he was positioning himself to be picked for VP and he wanted to assure them that it wasn't true.