2005 Houston Chronicle article: Gov Perry---advocate for affordable housing---- earns kudos in "lending law reform."
Perry endorsed 2008 prez candidate Rudy Giuliani (an ex-Dem).
Posted on 07/14/2011 5:02:23 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
You can't compare a man abandoning the democrats in 1952 or before, with a man becoming a democrat in the radically leftist democrat party of the post 1960s, a lot of great Americans USED to be democrats, but not since the left totally took over the party in the 1960s.
It's a "charity" 501 c3, and it's donors include Goldmans-Sachs and Soros Open society.
Please, TX freepers, keep an eye on this publication.
I’m on an iPhone and couldn’t read the article in full. Does it mention Phil Gramm’s conversion to a Republican in the 80s as well or do we just pretend he was always an R?
The Liberal Puppet Media appears to be promoting Rick "Bilderberg" Perry, Herman "Federal Reserve Board" Cain, and Michelle "Easy to Beat" Bachmann.
Yet they have a relentless demonic hatred for, (and fear of) Sarah Palin.
2005 Houston Chronicle article: Gov Perry---advocate for affordable housing---- earns kudos in "lending law reform."
Perry endorsed 2008 prez candidate Rudy Giuliani (an ex-Dem).
New Theory: That’s a hairpiece. Nothing could be that perfect.
“The liberal Texas Observer called Mr. Perry the “Benedict Arnold of the Democratic Party” for siding too often with Mr. Clements. “
If he sided with Clements back then, he cant be too bad.
In 1989, Karl Rove got him to switch to GOP and he ran and beat Jim Hightower for Ag commissioner in 1990. He’s won about 6 statewide races since.
Reagan was not a post 1960s, Vietnam, abortion, feminist movement, homosexual power, 1980 Jimmy Carter, 1984 Mondale, anti-Reagan, democrat.
It makes a difference what era of the Democrat party some one was joining, and that Reagan was a democrat in the 1930s and 40s, who was already campaigning for Eisenhower by 1952.
OMG...a lot of Texas Dems left the party and became Repubs.
This has NEVER happened before in any other state./s
Sorry folks, but there are no “concerned” individuals about our country.
They are concerned about one thing...and it ain’t us or the country.
It is a point of mystification to lots of old "lunch-bucket" Democrats ("hard hats" in 1968, when they voted for George Wallace, and "Reagan Democrats" when they went for the Gipper in the 80's) that the Democratic Party has been taken over by hard-line groups of one enthusiasm or another, whose common ground is that they are all fundamentally neo-Stalinist.
That change was effected by the Alinskyite takeover of the Democratic Party after 1968.
And they never reflect why it was that the old liberal Democrats' narrow loss to Nixon in 1968 somehow "delegitimized" the traditional Democrats, while -- somehow -- the Alinskyites' and their neo-Stalinist candidate's rejection in a 49-state landslide in 1972 in favor of that selfsame Richard Nixon despite the uniform support of the MSM, was not.
After living under that idiot, Jerry Brown for four years, I was a Reagan Democrat. I re-registered GOP a couple of years later.
Give me a recovering Democrat over a Rino any day. The Gipper himself was once an FDR Democrat.
I still love the way Phil switched parties. LOL!
What did you know about ACRON in 2005?
Reagan was a democrat pre 1960s (actually pre 1950s), he was not an anti-Reagan democrat supporting Carter in 1980 and Mondale in 1984 and then converting for the super rino HW Bush.
That was a nice refresher description, good post.
Dept of Housing and Urban Development: $8.2 million between 2003 and 2006; $1.6 million to ACORN affiliates.
EPA $100,000 grant to ACORN in 2004 for a Louisiana Justice Project, which removed lead from the homes of low income families.
Justice Dept grant in 2005 for a juvenile delinquency program.
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According to later research, 40% of ACORN's operations were found to be funded through numerous grants it receives from various governmental entities.
ACORN also receives funding from a variety of tax-exempt private charitable organizations: the Bauman Family Foundation, George Soros' Open Society Institute, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and from corporate foundations, including JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Ben & Jerry's foundation, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and Citigroup, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and tax-exempt foundations affiliated with the founder of UPS.
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Senate Finance Committee Study (led by Sen Charles Grassley)
ACORN comprises a mind-boggling 94 different affiliates, that amounts to "a big shell game," a biting Senate Finance Committee study shows.
The study, by the staff of Sen Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), reveals four ACORN charity groups give more than half their revenue to taxable entities that engage in "impermissible lobbying and political activity."
ACORN and it’s subsidiaries for decades have moved taxpayer money into their own pockets and into the left-wing Marxist machine.
Sen Charles Grassley's documents show leaders of ACORN community groups transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money-----meant for the poor---- to parts of the group that have political (and sometimes profit-making) missions.
Sen Grassley's documents indicate that ACORN's tax-exempt groups----along with its tangled web of allied organizations---- used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates.
ACORN also appears to have been involved in improper use of pension funds ..... some of the founder Rathke's embezzlment was apparently taken from the pension fund using ACORN's American Express card.
This displacement of funding led to the creation of a complex repayment system in which accused embezzler Dale Rathke owed ACORN, and ACORN in turn, owed ABA, which, for its part, wrote off part of the money. (Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ........
Perry from the old days ping.
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