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Posted on 01/21/2010 7:49:33 AM PST by deport
AUSTIN – Like one of those preschool picture books, Rick Perry's latest list of big-money donors invites a question: Which one doesn't belong?
Included among the governor's usual givers, staunch Republicans all, is John McHale, an Austin high-tech millionaire with a long history of giving to Democrats.
McHale gave the Republican governor $50,000, making him one of Perry's largest donors as he seeks to fend off a challenge from GOP rival Kay Bailey Hutchison, a U.S. senator.
McHale did not return a telephone call seeking comment on why he was supporting the Republican governor. But there are clues that his donations might be meant to ultimately help a Democrat, Bill White.
......McHale was backing White in his bid for the Senate. According to Perry's latest finance report, McHale's $50,000 donation was made on Dec. 4 – the very day White announced he was switching to the governor's race.
Many Democrats are rooting for Perry to beat Hutchison, believing he would be a weaker candidate in the fall against White, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
......There is no record of McHale supporting any Republican statewide candidate in Texas although he did give $1,000 eight years ago to Republican U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith of San Antonio.
McHale supported John Kerry against George W. Bush and – with spouse Chris Mattsson – gave $3 million to the Media Fund, which aired television commercials attacking Bush in swing states in 2004.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Amid governor's race, Hutchison back in Washington for hearing
08:26 AM CST on Thursday, January 21, 2010
By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News
tgillman@dallasnews.com
WASHINGTON – It's all about multitasking and time management in the Senate. The votes, the floor speeches, the meetings. The campaigning for another job.Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison – who vowed to devote most of the next six weeks to ousting Gov. Rick Perry in the GOP primary while also tending to vital Senate business – popped up in Washington in time for a three-hour hearing Wednesday morning on aviation security and the Christmas Day underbomber.
She left halfway through, though that was long enough to take some shots at the Obama administration and vent – as other senators did – about the lapses that allowed a suspicious passenger onto a flight headed for Detroit.
And to generate video of a senator at work that aides promptly posted on YouTube, of course.
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Perry shells out big bucks for volunteer recruiters
By Jason Embry | Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 09:43 PM
Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign paid more than $360,000 in the second half of 2009 to more than 300 “part-time field staff,” according to the campaign-finance report he filed with the Texas Ethics Commission.Perry’s report for the first half of 2009 showed no dollars going to part-time field workers.
So what changed in the second half of the year? Perry launched his Perry Home Headquarters program, which offers cash incentives to supporters who enlist their friends to sign up voters who will support Perry. Usually campaigns don’t offer cash to their volunteers in the field, although the practice is legal.
The Statesman’s Kate Alexander did a great review of Perry’s report for the second half of the year and found that, in total, Perry paid $361,340 to 305 people listed on his reports as part-time field staff.
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Hutchison speaks softly about Texas' problems
Jason Embry, American StatesmanU.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison aired two television commercials this month that used an electronic road sign to criticize Gov. Rick Perry on the issues of toll roads and property rights.
There was no voice in the spots, just the sound of passing cars, the honk of a horn, the buzz of a chain saw. It was a fitting way to present a candidate who is barely audible on some of the most important decisions made by Perry, whom she is trying to unseat in the March Republican primary.
After waiting for months to formulate a position, Hutchison has said little recently about Perry's decision to reject $555 million in federal stimulus dollars for unemployment insurance, even though 10 of 19 Republicans in the Texas Senate voted to buck Perry and take that money. She doesn't talk much about his decision to shake up the Forensic Science Commission days before it considered whether Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham based on faulty arson science. And after Perry said he wouldn't seek $700 million in federal money for education, her campaign team, when pressed, said Perry made the right call.
Long heralded as a clash of the titans, this campaign has lacked a prolonged discussion of the numerous problems in state agencies that reporters have brought to light during Perry's tenure — problems including rampant abuse at the Texas Youth Commission and a routine failure to process food stamp applications in a timely manner. How much blame, if any, Perry deserves for those problems is up for debate, but it's a debate that Republican primary voters aren't having.
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I don’t like any of them.
Fine, let him give Perry $$$. That doesn’t guarantee White will get very far. OTOH, if ACORN gets out the illegal/Katrina/dead/imaginary/multi-voters, then who knows.
Correct, I don’t like or trust any of them either.
But given choice of White or Perry it is a no brainer. Perry is much better.
And KBH is much much worse choice than Perry.
About Medina, if she got nomination she would loose to White. She will not get nomination.
Where is the best person for the job? The best person for the job will not run for Political Office. Unfortunately.
I agree.
lol...
Democrats doing what democrats do...
They Know that if they get KBH in a general election with the dem they are gauranteed to have an ally in the governors office no matter who wins.
Always consider the source of the information and the possible motivations.
F-— the rino KBH!
You would think in a Red state like Texas, they could find someone better than Perry or KBH.
Where’s Nolan Ryan when you need him?
The King and Queen get entrenched and have their favors to call in thus making it hard to ever really kick one out. Perry has appointed nearly every person to all kind of state boards across Texas in his almost 10 years as governor. If he wins again it will be 14 years as governor. Most serve at his beck and call thus will do as told or get removed. That has built up a lot of political capital to call in. Hutchison doesn't appoint but has legislative avenues to help those she chooses and that builds up political capital.
I used to not be for term limits but in todays environment where the politicians think they are entitled to a job for life at the gov’t teat I've changed my mind. Limit them so they can't build up that kind of political power and restore it to the voters so that others may have a better opportunity to run and win.
Thanks for clearing things up.
Texas politics have always confused me but when you look at how LBJ ran the Machine, it shouldn’t be too surprising.
Our situation in Oregon is more like MA.
Rats control most of the media and seats of power by using union arm twisting. Talk radio and the Tea Party movement is all we have.
Media ad:
“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)
She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”
No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.
She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.
So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.
No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.
The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties
*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
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“About Medina, if she got nomination she would loose to White. She will not get nomination.”
So are you saying if Texans have to vote for Gov. and the choice is White or Medina that Texans will choose White ?
Unsure of that, Party affiliation in TX is not a simple equation. There were no Republicans in TX in my youth, and it only became common after the Left totally took over the Dem Party in early 1970's. A carry-over from what helped populated the state originally. CW1
I simply do not think Medina is sufficiently defined on her own at this point to overcome the negative of the Republican label in some parts of the state. I know some good people (poorly informed) who will never as long as they draw breath vote for a Republican. Most of those people refused to vote for Obozo.
As far as Bill White, I am not sure about his following.
Thank you for your analysis, it confirms what I have been told about Texas and their political leanings and history
For starters look up Debra Medina's column 'Latinos and the GOP'
'It’s a shame isn’t it, that Republicans continue to ignore Hispanics especially here in Texas?' Debra Medina
'Ignore them', Mrs Medina? Since when? What more do you want? Or shouldn't we ask?
Medina ad:
“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)
She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”
No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.
She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.
So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.
No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.
The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties
*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
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