“If that were true, then Perry would not have set a recent near record for donations”
Wrong. Perry was polling very high for months and only imploded recently. There are already reports of empty chairs in some of his fundraising events.
Most of the money Perry raised was from his existing contributors in Texas and now most of them are probably maxed out.
And the money Perry raised was no record. Obama raised nearly triple in the same period and Romney raised more last quarter.
The handouts of the empowerment zones wont make it out the front door. Handouts are handouts. This is the SOC “Same old Crap” different day different politician handing it out. Got a pretty catchy name on it (999) but look inside at the guts and people wont like preferential treatment given out to certain people and not others..