Posted on 09/13/2011 7:13:11 PM PDT by Rational Thought
Reporting from Washington— The biggest political donor to Texas Gov. Rick Perry during his 11-year tenure has not been one of the state's oil barons or cattle ranchers, but a Washington-based organization into which Perry helped funnel millions of dollars.
The Republican Governors Assn. — which Perry chaired twice — gave him $4 million in the last five years, making it the largest single source of the $102.8 million he has raised since 2001.
The organization's donations came as Perry helped infuse the governors' group with millions of dollars from some of his major political patrons. Out of the $217 million the RGA raised between January 2006 and June 2011, $68.7 million came from 139 donors who have also given to Perry, according to a new report being released Tuesday morning by the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice.
Nearly a third of those contributors were wealthy Texans who form the backbone of Perry's finance operation — many of whom were not active donors to the RGA until 2006, when the Texas governor took on a bigger role at the organization.
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[My, my, Queenie, you are just making me shake in my boots.]
When someone calls someone else Queenie, I find it is usually projection from someone who has been doing goats or some such and is an attempt to distract from the issue at hand.
I am giving you an opportunity, oh brave soul, to call the people I have listed and put your name out for all to see how brave you are. We all know how despised the guy is who shivers in the foxhole while others are out fighting, and I guess that is you. Since you haven’t offered to help, and I guarntee you won’t, we know exactly who the blowhard is.
It is actually quite amusing, I can call you a blowhard and not be afraid of blowback because you have nothing to show. Diddly, nada, squat, zippo. You don’t know any of these people, you don’t live with them or their threats, so I call you out as a weak little coward. You are a nothing and it shows.
No, it ADDRESSES the issue, which is that you are acting like a drama queen, which is obvious.
Man up, fill your boots, stiff upper lip and all that.
You are all hat, no cattle. buh bye
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