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Perry Campaign Chartered a Plane Used in Drug-Smuggling Ring
The Wall Street Journal ^ | OCTOBER 20, 2011 | Mark Maremont

Posted on 10/23/2011 11:39:27 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

The campaign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, which said Wednesday it had underpaid wealthy donors for use of their private jets, has another ticklish plane problem.

For a campaign swing that started late last month, Mr. Perry’s campaign chartered a Gulfstream III owned by a California Mexican-food company, Marquez Brothers International, according to flight records and a Marquez Brothers executive.

The same plane was used in a major cocaine-smuggling ring involving a well-known hip-hop music executive that was busted by federal officials last November, according to federal court filings.

A pilot who flew the Marquez Brothers plane was among those who have pleaded guilty in the scheme

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; deadhorse; nonstory; redundant; romneybackstab; romneydirt; smellslikemitt; typicalromney
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1 posted on 10/23/2011 11:39:32 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

So?


2 posted on 10/23/2011 11:43:18 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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To: greatvikingone

I once flew on a plane that may have flown a terrorist somewhere sometime!


3 posted on 10/23/2011 11:44:46 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: BarnacleCenturion

BFD!

“I had a $20 bill once that someone famous used to snort coke off a barrel” 8o


4 posted on 10/23/2011 11:45:29 AM PDT by wolfcreek (Perry to Obama: Adios, MOFO!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
So?

Good God, if slamming Perry out of the race is the intent, us something that is worth slamming him.

5 posted on 10/23/2011 11:45:30 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Goofy.


6 posted on 10/23/2011 11:45:45 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

And during the Error Of Obama this is a problem because...?


7 posted on 10/23/2011 11:46:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

And your point is...


8 posted on 10/23/2011 11:46:41 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I used a parking spot that was used by Charles Manson once. Does that make me an accessory?


9 posted on 10/23/2011 11:46:48 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I used a parking spot that was used by Charles Manson once. Does that make me an accessory?


10 posted on 10/23/2011 11:47:06 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Jeez, I wonder if he rode down a highway that a drug smuggler used.
11 posted on 10/23/2011 11:47:17 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I’m not for Perry in the least, but this is about as foolish as it can be.

I have owned a couple of airplanes and when I wasn’t flying them, I had them on something called “lease-back”, where anyone who was qualified could lease the airplane and pay the FBO,(fixed based operator), my fee plus insurance and fuel.

I may have leased Citations and other makes many times from Ft. Lauderdale executive that were owned by people who were involved in the drug trade.

This is something that reporters can verify easily and it should never have been printed....that being said...GO CAIN!


12 posted on 10/23/2011 11:48:07 AM PDT by Carl from Marietta (Herman Cain 2012..get on the CAIN train!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Everyone who has flown on Air Force One since Clinton left office has flown on a plane used to transport drugs.


13 posted on 10/23/2011 11:49:13 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Whooooey! This guy can’t take a step without sinking himself further in mud! And drug tainted mud at that! Interesting, too, that a Mexican company is supporting Rick Perry, isn’t it? In view of his policies on illegal immigration.


14 posted on 10/23/2011 11:49:51 AM PDT by Paperdoll (I like Herman Cain)
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To: GreenHornet

Excellent response.


15 posted on 10/23/2011 11:51:49 AM PDT by Gator113 (~ Just livin' life~........ leaning heavy for Newt 2012)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Don’t catch a cab in New York. Never know who rode in it or what they did while they were in it.


16 posted on 10/23/2011 11:52:48 AM PDT by tirednvirginia
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I’m more “outraged” and “offended” by the fact that he chartered a plane owned by a California Mexican-food company.


17 posted on 10/23/2011 11:55:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

You keep posting this NON story.

Maybe you could give everyone a heads up by numbering them. This is what # 3


18 posted on 10/23/2011 11:57:11 AM PDT by marty60
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I once owned a 1969 Plymouth Valiant that, years later after I sold it, was used in a felony kidnapping. Guess I’m lucky I was never arrested for being an accessory.


19 posted on 10/23/2011 11:59:48 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Paperdoll
Whooooey! This guy can’t take a step without sinking himself further in mud! And drug tainted mud at that!

He leased a plane that was also once leased by a hip hop mogul druggie..Gee, I once rented a car from Alamo rent a Car, and I think that probably some people who rented that same car before I rented it, smoked dope in college.

Your Drug Tainted Mud-dled reply is nuts.

20 posted on 10/23/2011 11:59:48 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Freepers, please turn yourself in at attackwatch.com)
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