Posted on 09/04/2011 9:54:52 PM PDT by Tempest
POLITICO's Ken Vogel passes along an email sent by Perry contributor Norman Adams that contained a separate email from Steve Hotze, also a Perry bundler based in Texas. Both emails make donor solicitations that underscore Perry's position helping to kill a bill similar to the Arizona immigration legislation, for instance.
The upshot is that these are not necessarily positions that either primary and caucus voters know about Perry, or that will sit well with them.
As I noted in another post, it's not clear that immigration is the driver of voter interests in presidential primaries that some believe it to be. But it will be interesting to see how Perry tries to keep both his donor base of Texas businessmen, who tend to favor the immigrants who aid the state's economy, and voters happy.
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Perry in the back pocket of the Chamber of Commerce?
““Numbers USA” founder is an environmentalist activist.”
He may be, I don’t know.
But I do know that NumbersUSA has been at the front of every battle on immigration: amnesty, Dream Act, e-verify, border fences, chain migration, enforcement of employment laws, etc.
My congressman has an “A” rating from NumbersUSA. A good rating is not difficult. Not only that, strong immigration enforcement positions match up with the views of a big majority of Americans.
Are you opposed to the positions of NumbersUSA?
and thanks for adding me to your ((((PING)))) list
I think you make my point. Nobody wants to talk about this issue or ask their favorite candidate to. Meanwhile, the decades old problem grows.
Along with millions more entering the country illegally under a Perry Admiminstration you can count on trillions of dollars being added to the federal deficit.
I’m not voting for Perry. I will not vote for any candidate that does not want to lead on important issues.
A soccer team promoter gives money to then Democrat Ed Rendell and Republican State Senate Majority Leaders Dominic Pileggi.
Then the taxpayers put up 60 million dollars to build a soccer stadium in Chester.
That would be an example of “special interests.”
Sarah Palin was on the town council in Wasilla, Alaska 20 years ago when a fellow councilman proposed an ordinance to require trash collection.
The councilman making the proposal happened to own the local trash hauling company.
That’s a “special interest”
Then there’s the Merck pharmaceuctical concern, makers of Guardasil.
They gave a 6-thousand dollar contribution to Rick Perry’s 2006 campaign through a group called “Women In Politics.”
Then Perry turns around and mandates Guardasil for 11 and 12 year old girls in Texas allowing Merck to make a lot of money.
If gov't was not involved in such things, most of the "special interests" would dry up.
I think the Guardasil case has two sides to it and is not as cut-and-dry as some try to make it.
Perry does not have a repeat-record of such "special interest" things that you can point to, like you could with Bill Clinton or Obama.
I know that if we end up with Perry, that we are not getting everything we want in a candidate. However, he is closer to the ideal than many of the others in the primary (except Cain and Bachmann). Unless they break-out, I can be a realist and support Perry heartily.
I knew what we were getting with Bush43. His Texas record was far worse than Perry's and he was still a superior choice over Gore.
I simply do not approve of some on our side who take every opportunity to attack Perry in exactly the same manner liberals will (if he is our nominee).
It would be far more effective to point out that Cain would be far better for fixing the economy than Perry or that Bachmann would be far better at charting her own course than Perry.
Constant personal attacks on a candidate are not necessary.
One thing I discovered just from some Google searching was that the man now so richly endorsing Perry as head of the Conservative Republicans of Texas group now had a different view several years ago.
He cited the Guardasil thing plus other matters including a ten percent business tax hike that Perry pushed through in 2007, one year after his re-election in 2006.
I get the sense that this Conservative Republicans of Texas group may just be fronting for the party establishment since Texas State Senator Dan Patrick, a conservative talk show host turned elected official, started something called the Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas group.
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