Reports: Rick Perry Raised $17,000,000 In 49 Days

Both Hot Air and The Drudge Report are reporting that the Perry campaign will report that it raised a fairly impressive $17 million during the 49 days of the 3rd quarter that the campaign was active.

The pace is even more impressive. Perry had 49 days in which to raise funds, rather than the full 92 days of the quarter, a rate of about $349,000 a day. The final debate in September didn't hurt Perry's fundraising rate, either. In the 42 days prior to the Orlando debate, their rate was $323K per day; in the eight days following the Orlando debate, that escalated to $478K per day. Perry's on-line operation did well, too, drawing in $1.1 million - despite, as my source says, not driving contributions with their on-line ads.

The two paragraphs I lifted explains why I agree with Perry. Bachmann, Romley and Santorum are making a terrible mistake attacking Perry. If you don't like Perry, give a better reason.

And now our man Cain stepped in it with his rock attack. Very disingenuous and hopefully he doesn't goof again.

From outside the belt way...
Perry is right that the idea of a 2,000 mile long border fence that stretches all the way from Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico is impractical, but as with his arguments in favor of the in-state tuition program, these arguments are likely to fall on deaf ears for people who are ideologically convinced that these ideas will work. One would think that a Governor of the state with the longest border with Mexico would be seen as more of an expert on this issue than a Congresswoman from Minnesota or a Senator from Pennsylvania, but apparently that’s not the case.

... states are already required to provide K-12 education to children of illegal immigrants, so the decision to extend this bene>fit isn’t really all that big a deal. This is especially true in Texas, where tuition at state universities is comparatively low due to the fact that the schools benefit from oil and gas income generated by land granted to them by the state more than a 100 years ago. These students were either brought here by their parents, in which case they are not morally culpable for the fact of their illegal status, or they were born here, in which csae they are American citizens anyway. To a large extent, these students are no different from any other Texas High School student and, if they’ve spent their entire school career there, the Lone Star State has already invested a considerable amount of money in their education system. Cutting them off when they graduate from High School because of the actions of their parents strikes me as both unfair and unwise.

I’d like to see some proof of Perry’s crony capitalism, first.

I’ve seen the krap about the Texas Technology Engineering Fund. But you only get to hear what the press is telling you. And that’s a huge problem. I’ve read the stuff they put going ape spit over that money, but there’s something you do not know and have never considered.

Every major city into which Perry is bringing in these new companies is run by democrats, except Fort Worth.

DEMOCRATS! That will fight you tooth and nail to keep anything new coming into their city that might wean their people off dependence and their Marxist agenda of government control. Garsh, what would happen to their grand plans if their poor and minorities got pulled up into jobs and trained so they are happy, strong and don’t need the democrats anymore. What if they assimilated with conservatives and got out of government housing segregation and saw what it looks like to live as a responsible individual or learn how a company has to run to stay solvent and they don’t hate the capitalists anymore and can’t be used as tools in the class warfare games.

To make a long story short, much of that fund’s money goes right back into Texas cities for bribery money, cities can charge whatever they want for permits, do you know they can charge you whatever they want just for an occupancy permit for your building so people can walk in the door and work?, franchise tax fees, city owned utility fees and permits, development study fees, environmental study fees. The list goes on and on. And if you’re going to employ more than 50 people it just gets worse. These democratic city governments will gouge them for every dime. Cities can even make demands on the rate of pay for your employees.

In Marxist headquarters, Austin, Toyota was going to move a plant out to east Austin, the city dithered for months over every dime, even got them to agree to pay part of city parks upkeep, and then the last straw was they wanted them to pay these unskilled line jobs a bottom line start of $17.00/hr. plus benefits just to stand there and screw in two screws for 8 hours a day which skills are the equivalent of a hamburger flipper’s ability. Toyota got tired and was looking to move the plant to another right-to-work state.

Thanks to Rick Perry’s negotiating ability, he took the deal to San Antonio and within days cut the deal and kept those jobs in Texas.

Getting those company’s embedded in your city brings huge economic opportunities to the people of your city. And much of that money goes right back into the city/state coffers.

The democrats will get their hang nail under anything and make a controversy out of it. There are legal limits campaign contributions. Yes, the owners may have given him $5,000, the upper management may have given him $5,000 and the many employees may have given him contributions. It doesn’t take long for it to add up to $50,000. And then they find some tittle tattle, and all of a sudden everybody whose path they might have crossed a couple of times become best buds.

Just like the Gardasil issue where Perry’s FORMER chief of staff went to work for Merck as a lobbyist. Tittle Tattle, they have a story, without even considering that Rick Perry cannot tell his former employee who he can and cannot work for, and that includes his liberal wife who worked for the Women in Government Organization that took money from Merck. Controversy! Controversy!

And yet in 2003, four years before the FDA approved Gardasil, for the first time since 1950 when states started requiring immunizations for school enrollment, Rick Perry signed into legislation a bill that allows Texas parents the opportunity to opt out of ANY immunizations they deemed dangerous to their children with a ‘conscience’ or ‘conscientious objector’ status. If Rick Perry was so hell bent on forced immunizations, why would he have signed that bill? The fact is there have been no FORCED immunizations in Texas since 2003. And when he wrote his ExO, he knew he could not force a Gardasil immunization on ANYBODY!

Keep listening to the democrats and their lies and you could very well end up with Mitt Romney and a new nationalized ‘Romneycare’.

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