Posted on 08/11/2015 2:54:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Rick Perry campaign took another blow it absolutely did not need.
Late Monday, National Journal reported that the former Texas governor's campaign has stopped paying its South Carolina staff. By Monday night, there were reports that all paid Perry staff had been taken off the payroll, and that the campaign's top brass gave staff the green light to apply for other jobs.
"Pay is only one reason people do this," Katon Dawson, the governor's South Carolina state director, told the National Journal. He told The Washington Post that "money is extremely tight" and that everyone "moved to volunteer status," but the team "is working as hard as it was last week." There is no way to spin this as positive news for Perry, and that fact is made worse by the news that Ted Cruz is surging in polls.
First, let's breakdown what this says about Perry:
South Carolina has a special place in the narrative of Perry's presidential ambitions. His GOP rivals trounced him in the early 2012 New Hampshire primary. At the time, he brushed off the defeat, saying that his road to the GOP nomination didn't require him winning the Granite State: "Tonight's results in New Hampshire show the race for a 'conservative alternative' to Mitt Romney remains wide open," he said in a statement....
(Excerpt) Read more at houstonchronicle.com ...
Cruz is fundraising in Seattle next Tuesday, and I’ll be there.
Anyone else care to join the Cruz to Victory? :-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3323459/posts
I don’t mind gloating on this one.
Good bye, La Raza Rick.
Perry has nothing left to lose. Its game over.
Why he keeps hanging on is a mystery. He is not going to be on the ticket, period.
ME!!! Check your FRmail
Perry’s ok, and a good 10th amendment guy. Cruz is ‘da man’. Definitely an important milestone as there was so much discussion about how Cruz could succeed with Perry in the race. I guess that’s settled now :)
LOL!
He needs to hang it up and endorse somebody.
Right there with ya.
Perry sides with illegals and their employers.
People want a President who will enforce the laws and borders.
The illegal alien inundation is THE issue and the GOP can’t wish it away.
They will try to stick us with another amnesty candidate. I hope they can be defeated this time.
So much for more “aviation assets.”
One of the big reasons I’m on board with Cruz.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3323362/posts?page=21#21
It is funny that candidates are not smart enough to realize that the more they attack Trump the worse they do... Who is the most vicious attacker of Trump? Rick “Trump is a cancer” Perry.. who is second biggest critic of Trump.. Lindsey “Trump is a jackass” Graham.. how long can Lindsey hang on for?
I'll bet that Senator Cruz draws far bigger crowds than the inflated figures published by the far-left lamestream drivebys for their fellow communist, Bernie Sanders. Yes...even in Seattle. And the BLM thugs will be far too fearful to disrupt a real American, Texas Senator -- the next President -- Ted Cruz!
Perry faltered before he started.
Same for Rand Paul and iCarly.
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