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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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To: achilles2000

The plane is probably innocent.


21 posted on 10/23/2011 12:04:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Does anybody for a split second think this is not out of the Romney camp? Its just about as ridiculous as Perry’s assertion that Mitt-for-brains was directly responsible for the gardener hiring illegals.

I suppose the thing to be derived from this is two desperate souls with a ton of money who are unable to buy a message irregardless of being able to articulate one.


22 posted on 10/23/2011 12:04:58 PM PDT by mazda77 (and I am a Native Texan)
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23 posted on 10/23/2011 12:05:13 PM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Too bad the term “Yellow Jornalism” has been thrown in the dust bin.


24 posted on 10/23/2011 12:05:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro ('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I took a tour of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose.
Since then, I have felt compelled to clean my Model Fifty 12 gauge while watching `Ghost Adventurers’ on the Travel Channel.
It’s all just a part of this rich tapestry we call life.


25 posted on 10/23/2011 12:10:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (Don't tread on me)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

In other news,Rick Perry’s underwear may have been stitched together by an underpaid Chinese laborer


26 posted on 10/23/2011 12:10:57 PM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Mamas don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies..)
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To: Paperdoll

That was a Mexican *food* co.

The new PDS at work.


27 posted on 10/23/2011 12:12:49 PM PDT by wolfcreek (Perry to Obama: Adios, MOFO!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Oh noes! I may have traveled on Interstate Highways that drug smugglers may have used!

Oh, the horror!


28 posted on 10/23/2011 12:15:44 PM PDT by Sister_T ("Calling ILLEGAL aliens "immigrants" is like calling shoplifters 'customers'!"-UCFRoadWarrior ><>)
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To: lonestar

I do support Rick, and articles such as this show me the mental capacity of the Perrybashers :)


29 posted on 10/23/2011 12:18:37 PM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Mamas don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies..)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I think I might have flown on the same plane as the “Panty Bomber” 3 or 4 years BEFORE him, but....hey?! This is hugh and series!!


30 posted on 10/23/2011 12:21:50 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: Quickgun
In other news,Rick Perry’s underwear may have been stitched together by an underpaid Chinese laborer

No, his mother made it! and that's the truth!!!!

31 posted on 10/23/2011 12:23:08 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Why is this a story?


32 posted on 10/23/2011 12:23:08 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: BarnacleCenturion

The Airplanes fault???


33 posted on 10/23/2011 12:24:35 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: sockmonkey

Now wait just a minute. What was the going rate for chartering that plane from a Mexican Company? And what did Ht Perry campaign pay for it’s use? Those are questions which need to be answered.


34 posted on 10/23/2011 12:24:45 PM PDT by Paperdoll (I like Herman Cain)
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To: wolfcreek

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

I once read that some ridiculously high percentage of US Currency has traces of coke on it. Something like 80-90%.


35 posted on 10/23/2011 12:25:10 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: BarnacleCenturion
In case you missed the outrage at such BS "news stories", here's another one titled Report: Perry campaign jet used in drug-smuggling ring:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2795689/posts

36 posted on 10/23/2011 12:26:35 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Freepers, please turn yourself in at attackwatch.com)
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To: Quickgun

And the author looks like a pretty good egg.
http://businessjournalism.org/2010/01/21/qa-mark-maremont-senior-editor-wall-street-journal/
Surprised he’s working for the WSUrinal. He must have been told to do it by Rombots. If they’re agin Perry, mebbe I’m fur him.


37 posted on 10/23/2011 12:26:39 PM PDT by tumblindice (Don't tread on me)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I once stepped through the same entry door at Logan Airport that Mohamed Atta would use 26 years later on 9/11.


38 posted on 10/23/2011 12:28:03 PM PDT by rfp1234 (RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
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To: greatvikingone

Obama travels in the same airspace that drug dealers use.


39 posted on 10/23/2011 12:31:42 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: jocon307

Pretty much any denomination, I would gather.


40 posted on 10/23/2011 12:33:23 PM PDT by wolfcreek (Perry to Obama: Adios, MOFO!)
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