So where did $15 million come from? Texas cronies, special interests, big business looking for favors?
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Perry has raised truckloads of money for years preparing for his presidential foray. Perry got into the race with hundreds of millions of dollars, and multiple political PACS, teeming with money.
There's "Americans for Rick Perry" for starters.
Perry's Super Pac raised $55 million just by saying he WAS NOT running.
“Texans for Rick Perry” committee is a $102 million slush fund he uses at will. Some PAC mega-donors paid in $100,000 each in order to influence Perry's official actions. “Texans for Rick Perry” committee paid for posh family trips to the Bahamas, Amsterdam, Madrid, out of campaign contributions.
Perry's "Make Us Great Again PAC" raised millions to flood Iowa, and other early voting states, with ads promoting their boy.
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No candidate has a more corrupt history of allocating tax grants and using his office to give favors to mega donors than Rick Perry.....
One Texas news report titled “The Governor’s Gusher,” documents 100 wealthy donors who “have sought corporate welfare, relaxed regulatory rules or other government favors” in exchange for their political largess in Texas gubernatorial races. A disturbing number of these profiteers made a fortune off government handouts or by bending or breaking regulatory rules.
A recent bill pushed through the Texas Legislature benefited Waste Control Specialists, a company owned by #2 donor to Perry, Harold Simmons. Just days after the bill was signed into law, Simmons wrote a $100,000 check to "Americans for Rick Perry, " another of Perry's presidential PACs.
Another donor paid Perry nearly $8 million in campaign contributions, and, in 2003, sought and received, his own regulatory agency called "The Texas Residential Construction Commission"
One of these shady transaction needs rigorous scrutiny---one Perryman gave the RepubGovAssoc a million----then the RGA wrote two checks to Perry totaling a million, which he did not declare as per campaign laws.
Rick Perry----the Prudential Candidate---do you own a piece of the Rick?
When Bill White, Texas liberal Democrat, ran against Rick Perry in the last governor’s election in Texas, his supporters gave those same kinds of accusations, all vetted with no damage attributed to Governor Perry.
Going through the aggressive array of false claims and accusations from that last election was actually good for Governor Perry as he was able to rise above the false claims and accusations.