Posted on 11/29/2014 11:07:07 AM PST by iowamark
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is inviting hundreds of prominent Republican donors and policy experts to a series of gatherings next month that are intended to rebuild his damaged national brand and lay the foundation for a potential 2016 presidential campaign, fundraisers and organizers confirmed to POLITICO.
The small-group sessions kick off Tuesday and Wednesday in Austin with a pair of lunches and dinners held in the governor’s mansion wedged between policy briefings at the nearby office of Perry senior adviser Jeff Miller. In all, Perry’s team expects he will meet in person with more than 500 major donors and bundlers from around the country in December as well as a slew of operatives, Republican National Committee members and policy experts.
Perry’s intensive month of foundation-building comes as other prospective Republican presidential candidates – notably former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz – are engaging with the wealthy Texans who for years have been among the GOP’s most significant sources of cash. As the heir to a political dynasty with deep Texas ties, Bush in particular could seriously cut into Perry’s financial base. Bush over the last few months has met with major Texas donors...
“Ted Cruz could compete as well,” Lambert said of the junior senator from Texas. Cruz is a favorite of the conservative grassroots, but he has struggled to win over GOP establishment donors, who view him as an impractical ideologue.
“There will definitely be a difference in the donor base, but I think he’s right in the mix,” said Lambert, who praised Cruz and added, “It will be a tough decision.”
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I don’t think it was a gaffe, I think he really believes it. Just like he really believed giving instate tuition and taxpayer-funded subsidies to ILLEGAL aliens was a good thing. And just like he really believed that his nanny-state Gardasil mandate forcing Texas females to get an unwanted and unneeded vaccination of an unproven drug was a good thing. The man just does not think conservatively because he is not one. He was a democRAT and switched parties because he knew his political career was doomed in Texas w/o it.
I'll take 8 years of Perry and then 8 of Cruz.
Like it or not....a path to citizenship will happen.
Psssst....Reagan was a dem, too.
Reagan was a Dem......FOR 30 YEARS !!!!
I will vote for Perry also..
Unless I run into a burning bush I don’t trust any of these bozos.
Freegards
LEX
Perhaps I should have said a “Burning bush that is not being consumed” as per Moses in the desert. I don’t want to be misconstrued there are other bush’s around you see.../sarc
Freegards
LEX
Perry is no Reagan.
And if it does it should be a liberal democRAT who makes it happen, not a liberal Republican.
The bigwigs hate Cruz because he is saying the things the base wants to hear.
That is what self-government is about; anything else is tyranny.
Rick Perry for President.
Because we didn’t learn from losing with RINOS is the last few election cycles.
Why not double down on dumb with a Good Ol Boy RINO?
One that talks conservative and governs like a big government liberal?
Hey, that ought to make everybody happy, right (Except the conservatives!)
Even Chris Christie didn’t sign the tuition aid part of the illegal alien bill.
I dont think Perry or Jindal can get out of the shadow of Cruz or Vitter(even if he’s not running).
Rick Perry and Mick Mulvaney are both big amnesty supporters and fake Tea Party members.
“Louie is a member of the ship-them-home-in-boxcars caucus, and I respect that,” Mulvaney said. But he added that a chairman must be able to represent the views of the conference as a whole.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/2/texas-gov-perry-joins-mulvaney-for-sc-cookout/
Rick Perry was land-grabbing in favor of the NAFTA Super Highway through Texas.
With all due respect, get bent, Rick.
You’re an ex Democrat who never evolved further than RINO.
NO THANKS!
Is he ramping up to do fundraising for Scott Walker, my early choice for 2016?
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